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US Shipping Foreign Fighters to Home Prisons

American officials step up action to empty secret prisons

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 28, 2008 3:14 AM CDT

(Newser) – The US has stepped up efforts to return foreign fighters captured in Iraq and Afghanistan to their homelands, the New York Times reports. More than 200 detainees have been turned over to security services in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other countries as the military works... Read full story »

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