A federal judge in Washington on Thursday freed five Guantanamo Bay detainees accused by government prosecutors of supporting al Qaeda’s military efforts against the U.S. military and its allies. U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon said the five Algerian terrorism suspects could not be held indefinitely as ‘enemy combatants’ and that the government failed to prove the classified document used as evidence against them was reliable. He directed that the five men be released ‘forthwith’ and urged the government not to appeal. The men have been held for almost seven years. This is the first civilian court ruling for terror suspects who are challenging their detention. One of the men to be released is Lakhdar Boumediene, whose landmark Supreme Court case in June gave detainees the right to challenge their imprisonment in the facility, which was set up in 2002 after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The judge ordered Mr. Boumediene and four other detainees to be released immediately, though he did not reveal the conditions of their release. Officials in Bosnia, meanwhile, have already agreed to allow the detainees to enter that country – which had been their adopted home before they were […]