Seventeen Chinese Uighurs linger in Guantanamo Bay some five years after the U.S. government determined they were no longer enemy combatants. They likely never were enemies of America. The Washington Post reported on their long suffering within the detention facility in August 2005. Almost three years later, the BBC noted little had changed for those unfairly detained. Held six years in solitary confinement for literally no good reason? The beacon of freedom and liberty for the world surely couldn't, wouldn't do such a thing...
