Judge Orders Release of 5 Terror Suspects at Guantanamo
U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon on Thursday ordered the release of five Algerians held at Guantanamo Bay and the continued detention of a sixth in a major rebuke to the Bush administration's strategy to keep terror suspects imprisoned without charges. In the first case of its kind, the judge said the evidence linking the five to al-Qaida was not credible as it came from a single, unidentified source. Therefore, they could not be held indefinitely as enemy combatants, and should be released immediately.
