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The Case of the Missing Uighur

How did a passport-less former Guantanamo detainee escape from Palau and avoid China's clutches?

March 7, 2013 12:36 p.m. ET

Koror, Palau

The Pacific island republic of Palau, population 20,000, feels more like a small town than a country. So when a resident disappears, it makes the local papers. When that resident is Adel Noori—an exonerated former Guantanamo detainee who's still wanted by China for ethnic separatism—it's also international news.

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