[news] An Encounter in Albania: Bush and the Uighurs

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

The **Uighurs** are a Muslim ethnic minority from the Xinjiang province in **China**. A few years before arriving in Albania they had been in Afghanistan for reasons that had nothing to do with Osama bin Laden. Following the events of 9/11 they decided to go to Pakistan where after a time they were invited to dinner by some villagers. At the conclusion of the dinner they were taken to a mosque where instead of praying with their newfound friends they were turned over to American forces in exchange for money and taken to Guantanamo.

  


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