“I’ve spent many years in the worst place on earth for doing nothing,” Idir, released this week, told Reuters.
WASHINGTON — US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered aides to draw up plans to close down the notorious Guantanamo detention center, a declared priority for President-elect Barack Obama.
“He has asked his team for a [...]
“They’ve never asked anything about charges which were brought against us. They’ve never asked about Afghanistan,” he told Reuters in an interview.
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“They only questioned me about Islamic organisations working in Bosnia…I’ve spent many years in the worst place on earth for doing nothing.”
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The family of Hadj Boudella await his arrival
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Three Guantanamo prisoners were flown to Bosnia Tuesday and released to their families in the first detainee transfer ordered by a U.S. federal judge, according to local police and an attorney for the men.
A judge in Washington ordered [...]
AN Algerian-born man who has just been freed from Guantanamo Bay has described the US “war on terror” camp as the worst place on Earth, in an interview published in a Bosnian newspaper.
“For almost seven years, I was at the end of the world, at the worst place in the world,” Mustafa Ait Idir told [...]
A US civil court will review the case of six Algerians detained at Guantanamo who claim their incarceration is illegal. Some 250 prisoners remain at the base, and all of them have filed Habeas Corpus challenges.
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