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Decisions raise question of whether they posed a threat
Associated Press

The Pentagon called them "among the most dangerous, best-trained, vicious killers on the face of the Earth," sweeping them up after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and hauling them in chains to a U.S. military prison in southeastern Cuba.

Hundreds of the men have been transferred from Guantánamo Bay to other countries, many of them for continued detention -- and then they've been set free.

Decisions by more than a dozen countries in the Middle East, Europe and South Asia to release the former detainees raise questions about whether they were really as dangerous as the United States said or whether some of America's staunchest allies have set terrorists and militants free.

The United States does not systematically track what happens to detainees once they leave Guantánamo, the U.S. State Department said.

The Pentagon said detainees have been sent to 26 countries. The Associated Press tracked 245 of those formerly held at Guantánamo. The investigation, which spanned 17 countries, found that:

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