From Hell, To Modernity (with all its pleasures)

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and tip top health care , as well..

http://www.bermudasun.bm/main.asp?SectionID=24&SubSectionID=270&ArticleID=42501
8/14/2009 11:25:00 AM

Uyghurs' joy at par-fect new life in BDA

Gitmo refugees settling in on the rock by working at golf course and joining soccer team
Bermuda's ­Guantanamo refugees are quickly getting to grips with three staples of island life - prayer, work and football.

They have a new home in Paget, become active ­members of the Mosque, got jobs as groundskeepers at Port Royal golf course and signed up for First ­Division soccer team

X-Roads Warriors.

Before coming here, the Uyghurs - who spent seven years in the notorious ­terror jail in Cuba - had never seen a golf course. Their only experience of the sport was playing on a Wii games console at the low-security Iguana Camp in Gitmo, where they were transferred after being cleared of any wrongdoing. Now they are raking the bunkers and tending the grounds at Port Royal, which will welcome the world's best players at next month's PGA Grand Slam.

From behind the wheel of his maintenance truck, dark shades protecting him from the afternoon sun, Khalil Mamut struggled to find the words to describe his new life.

"It's beautiful," he said. "It feels like we are working in a garden.

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