Uighur Terrorists in Bermuda?

Says a reader:

These uighurs are terrorists and nothing more. What other possible reason could they have for being in Afghanistan during US operations against the Taliban and Al Qaeda? Tourism? Picnicing?

Me:

Can you please make an effort to research the facts before your spout off? There is such a thing as being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Further, and this concept may be totally new to you, there is such a thing as a presumption of innocence and due process.

Here are the facts.

http://m.npr.org/news.jsp?key=516195&rc=in&p=0

"The four were among a group of Uighurs -- members of a Turkic ethnic group from China's Xinjiang province -- who fled China in the summer of 2001, claiming religious persecution. They slipped across the border into Afghanistan. Later, they crossed into Pakistan, where they were swept up by Pakistani security services. They were eventually jailed in the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.The Uighurs were later declared innocent of terrorism, and the U.S. has been trying to place them somewhere ever since. Returning them to China would probably mean torture."