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RENEE MONTAGNE
NPR Morning Edition
06-15-2009
Palau President Taking Heat For Taking In Uighurs

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And we've been hearing these past few days about some Chinese Muslims picked up in Afghanistan and Pakistan after 9/11 and sent to Guantanamo. They're members of China's Uighur minority, who China calls terrorists, though the U.S. now says they're not the enemy and should be freed.

More than a dozen are headed from Cuba to another island nation, tiny Palau in the Pacific. The president of Palau agreed to take the Uighurs ...

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