Freeing Guantanamo Prisoners

From ABC’s Jan Crawford Greenburg:

A federal judge has ordered the government to release five terror suspects detained at Guantanamo, saying it failed to prove the men planned to take up arms against the United States.

Judge Richard Leon directed the government to "take all necessary and appropriate diplomatic steps" to bring about their release, according to a lawyer in the courtroom.

Unlike another federal judge last month, however, he did not order them released into the United States. Leon urged the government not to appeal, but to instead find a country to accept the men.

They are native Algerians, he said, who were captured in Bosnia. He also cautioned that the case was "unique" and that "no one should be lulled into a false sense" that other detainee cases would be similarly decided.

The ruling comes five months after the Supreme Court opened courthouse doors to Gitmo prisoners to challenge their detention.