http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/international/ticker/detail/Morocco_acquits_5_ex_Guantanamo_inmates.html?siteSect=143&sid=7446495&cKey=1169217340000RABAT (Reuters) - Five Moroccans sent home from the Guantanamo U.S. military camp in 2004 were acquitted on Friday of terrorism charges levelled at them on their return.
The five had been in and out of detention and questioning by police, accused of criminal gang membership, failure to denounce crimes harming state security, funding criminal organisations and passport forgery.
They were acquitted by Rabat's criminal appeal court, Moroccan state news agency MAP said. Two of them are still being held on a separate charge of trying to recruit volunteers to fight in Iraq.
The U.S. government, a staunch ally of Morocco, has repatriated nine Moroccans from Guantanamo since August 2004 and all of them were put on trial. snip
"The fact the Americans released the five from Guantanamo already proves their innocence," said Moroccan analyst Mohamed Darif.
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