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	<title>Breaking News &#187; Koror</title>
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		<title>China pressured Australia to refuse six Uighurs: Palau President</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KOROR - Palau President Johnson Toribiong has indicated that China may have pressured Australia to refuse to take six Uighur men released from Guantanamo Bay and sent to the Pacific island nation.

Toribiong said that though Palau welcomed the six Uighurs (from a region in China&#8217;s far west), who have spent almost eight years in detention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E-mail, air conditioners and a shave: Former Guantanamo detainees begin new lives in Palau</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Kaminsky</dc:creator>
		
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Ex-Guantanamo detainees begin new lives in Palau
KOROR, Palau — They&#8217;ve shaved off the long beards they wore at Guantanamo Bay, and they were angered at a local newspaper report that casually referred to them as terrorists.
The six Chinese Muslim men were also relieved and thankful to be out of the U.S. prison and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Guantanamo detainee thanks Palau for accepting him, says stay may only be temporary</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
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Guantanamo detainees begin life in Palau
KOROR, Palau — Former Guantanamo Bay detainees on Tuesday thanked the people of Palau for taking them in, but signaled the Pacific Island nation would be only a temporary home.

&#8220;We are extremely grateful to the president of Palau and the people of Palau who have graciously accepted us and given [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uighurs welcomed in Palau, but face challenges as tiny Muslim community set to shrink</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathon Kaminsky</dc:creator>
		
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Muslim ex-Gitmo detainees face challenges in Palau

KOROR, Palau — Six former Guantanamo Bay detainees brought to Palau for resettlement have received a warm official welcome, but a plan to deport Bangladeshi workers could halve this Pacific Island nation&#8217;s already-tiny Muslim community, making integration harder.
The ex-detainees, who are Muslim ethnic Uighurs from a region in China&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo Bay arrive at new home on Pacific island of Palau</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Kaminsky</dc:creator>
		
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6 former Guantanamo detainees resettle in Palau
KOROR, Palau — Six Chinese Muslims newly released from Guantanamo Bay were wide awake and excited Sunday as they traded life behind bars for rooms with ocean view in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, which agreed to a U.S. request to resettle them.
The ethnic Uighurs, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo Bay arrive in Pacific nation for resettlement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Kaminsky</dc:creator>
		
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6 Guantanamo detainees resettle in Palau
KOROR, Palau — Six Chinese Muslims released from Guantanamo Bay but still wanted at home as separatists arrived Sunday on their new tropical island home of Palau after the tiny Pacific nation agreed to a U.S. request to resettle the men.
The ethnic Uighurs were met Sunday at Palau&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Source: 6 Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo Bay arrive in Pacific nation for resettlement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Kaminsky</dc:creator>
		
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Source: 6 Guantanamo detainees resettle in Palau
KOROR, Palau — Six Chinese Muslims who had been detained at Guantanamo Bay arrived Sunday in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau for resettlement, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press.
The men arrived in Palau early Sunday, the person, who spoke on condition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Return of WWII airman&#8217;s remains after 65 years brings comfort to Southern California family</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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Family welcomes home remains of WWII airman

HIGHLAND, Calif. — For two decades after her son&#8217;s bomber went down in the Pacific Ocean during World War II, Vella Stinson faithfully wrote the U.S. government twice a month to ask if his body had been found — or if anyone was looking.
The mother of six strapping boys [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawyer: 2 more Uighur detainees at Guantanamo agree to move to Palau</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Kaminsky</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KOROR, Palau — Two more Chinese Muslim detainees held at Guantanamo Bay have agreed to be relocated to the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, their lawyer said Saturday, bringing to six the total who will resettle.

Palau has offered 13 ethnic Uighurs held at the U.S. military prison in Cuba a chance to move there — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4th Guantanamo Bay detainee agrees to move to Palau, and US says more may accept offer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Kaminsky</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KOROR, Palau — A fourth Chinese Muslim detainee held at Guantanamo Bay has agreed to be relocated to the tiny Pacific island nation of Palau, officials said Tuesday.

Relocating the Uighurs would bring the Obama administration a step closer to its goal of finding new homes for terrorism suspects and others captured in Afghanistan who have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First batch of Uighur detainees at Guantanamo agree to go to Palau</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Kaminsky</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KOROR, Palau — Three Chinese Muslims detained at Guantanamo Bay have formally accepted an offer to take up new lives in the Pacific island nation of Palau and could be moved there as early as next month, lawyers say.

They are the first among a group of 13 ethnic Uighurs being held at the U.S. military [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawyer says some Uighur Guantanamo detainees have agreed to go to Palau, formal deal is close</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KOROR, Palau — Some Chinese Muslims still detained at Guantanamo Bay have overcome reservations about being sent to the remote Pacific nation of Palau, and a final deal on their relocation was close, a lawyer for two of them said Wednesday.

The Uighur detainees met with U.S. State Department officials on Monday and told the diplomats [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palau to ask US for more aid as it awaits arrival of Guantanamo detainees</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Kaminsky</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KOROR, Palau — Palau is asking longtime benefactor the United States for a 35-year extension on direct aid funding — and hinting Washington should say yes because of its offer to take in 13 Guantanamo Bay detainees.

Both Palauan and U.S. officials have denied any direct link between the country&#8217;s willingness to take in the Chinese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palau&#8217;s Muslims have mixed feelings on arrival of Guantanamo detainees in their community</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko A. Hosaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KOROR, Palau — At the call to prayer, the men turn one-by-one down a narrow path through the jungle, marked only by a towering coconut tree.

Hidden at the end of the dirt track stands the sole mosque in Koror, home to more than two-thirds of people in Palau, the tiny Pacific nation that has agreed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guantanamo detainees&#8217; expected arrival in Palau doesn&#8217;t scare off tourists</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko A. Hosaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KOROR, Palau — Palau can probably stop worrying that the expected arrival of 13 Guantanamo detainees might scare off tourists.

The diving is just too spectacular.
Visitors to the remote Pacific nation famous for its tropical waters, dramatic coral and rich marine life said Thursday that they&#8217;ve discovered the best diving of their lives here and that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guantanamo Uighurs may not want to move to Palau, official says</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko A. Hosaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KOROR, Palau — A group of Guantanamo detainees expected to be resettled in Palau may not want to move to the remote Pacific nation, a Palauan official said Wednesday.

Last weekend, Palau sent a fact-finding team to the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to meet with the 13 Uighurs — Turkic Muslims from China&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palau&#8217;s acceptance of Uighurs comes amid talks to renew key US accord</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/palaus-acceptance-of-uighurs-comes-amid-talks-to-renew-key-us-accord-82139/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko A. Hosaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KOROR, Palau — Palau&#8217;s decision to take in 13 Guantanamo detainees is a humanitarian gesture from a country that prides itself on welcoming society&#8217;s castaways.

It also appears to be about the money.
President Johnson Toribiong has repeatedly denied that this tiny Pacific archipelago stands to benefit financially in exchange for accepting the Chinese Muslims, known as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palau helps Myanmar asylum seekers as residents await arrival of Guantanamo detainees</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko A. Hosaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KOROR, Palau — The newcomers on this tiny Pacific nation are young and in limbo, scared that they&#8217;ll be arrested if they&#8217;re sent back to their native land. Most speak no English, but they say they&#8217;re astounded by the generosity of Palau and its people.

They are not the Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo who made world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP Interview: Guantanamo detainees&#8217; move to Palau not a done deal, president says</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko A. Hosaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KOROR, Palau — The tiny Pacific island nation that agreed to accept 13 Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo prison has offered itself as a safe haven before.

Palau, famed for lush tropical landscapes and spectacular diving, earlier agreed to take in former Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot and rescued Afghan refugees, its president said Saturday. But neither [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Muslim detainees may find new home in Palau just as strange as Guantanamo Bay</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Foreman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KOROR, Palau — They came from a land of scorching deserts, snowcapped mountains, camels and mosques. Now after several miserable years imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, 13 Muslims from China will try to resettle on the tiny Pacific nation of Palau — a land of lush beach resorts.

Some residents said Friday they are afraid of the [...]]]></description>
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