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The Algerian six were a group of men, born in Algeria, living in Bosnia, captured in the United States "Global war on Terror". All but one of these men had become Bosnian citizens. All six became aid workers.

Lakhdar Boumediene, Boudella El Hadj, Sabir Mahfouz Lahmar, Bensayah Belkacem

Arrest, trial and acquital, by Bosnian legal authorities
In October 2001, approxomately one month after the attacks of September 11 2001 American Security officials in Bosnia became alarmed. American Security officials, working in the American embassy in Sarajevo, who monitored the "chatter" of those suspected of involvement in terrorism thought they had noticed a change that signalled an impending attack on the American embassy.

Bosnian authorities arrested the "Algerian six" on October 21, 2001, charged with plotting to bomb the American embassy. The six had their trial in January, 2002, before the Bosnian Supreme Court, and were acquitted.

Capture by American security officials
According to their testimony before their Combatant Status Review Tribunals, the six were released, and immediately captured by Bosnian and American security officials. As with "extraordinary renditions" they weren't charged with any crimes by local authorities. And, according to their testimony, they were transported out of the country without any formal requests for extradition, or for their lawyers to file a habeas corpus. The six men were transported to the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

According to their testimony before their Combatant Status Reviews their interrogators were uninterested

A note on sources
This article relies on the dossiers compiled by the US on the detainees while they were in Guantanamo Bay, and subsequently released through Freedom of Information Act requests. Those documents were released in portable document format, are long, and in hard to read.