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U.S. lawyers to meet Sudan Gitmo detainee families

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Published April 24, 2009, in Guantanamo, Sudan

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Lawyers from the Pentagon’s legal office will meet with families of Sudanese Guantanamo detainees to discuss how they might be released, a Sudanese foreign ministry official said Friday.

The U.S. delegation arrived in the Sudanese capital on Thursday as the diplomatic detente between Khartoum and the new administration in Washington is showing further signs of a thaw. U.S. Senator John Kerry and U.S. Special Envoy Scott Gration have both visited Sudan this month.

“They are here to collect information for their (the prisoners’) civil defense to facilitate their release,” said Mohammed Omar, who heads the consulates and expatriates section at the foreign ministry.

 

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Mystery terrorist in NYC plot deported to Sudan

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Published March 5, 2009, in Algeria, Deported, Khalid Al-Jawary, Sudan

By ADAM GOLDMAN and RANDY HERSCHAFT

NEW YORK (AP) — A recently released Black September terrorist convicted of placing three powerful car bombs in New York City in 1973 has been deported to Sudan, a violent African nation that once sheltered Osama bin Laden and other terrorists.

Khalid Al-Jawary, 63, was flown out of Denver International Airport on Thursday and arrived Tuesday in Khartoum, said Carl Rusnok, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman.

Details of his deportation were released after Al-Jawary’s federal escorts had safely left the volatile country that was once the site of a bloody Black September attack in the ’70s.

 

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Sudanese Journalist Detention Reveals Guantanamo Embarrassment

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Published May 29, 2008, in "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques", Abuse, Detainee, Detainee Abuse, Detainee Treatment Act, Extended Solitary Confinement, Guantanamo, Hunger Strike, Sami al-Haj, Sudan, Torture, war crimes

San Francisco Bay View, Commmentary, Safiya Ghori

Almost seven years after 9/11, Guantanamo Bay remains a shameful symbol of the War on Terror. The United States continues to argue that the Constitution has no jurisdiction outside U. S. borders, thereby violating international and national law. Guantanamo Bay has since housed hundreds of men accused of being linked to terrorism, who have been continually mistreated and denied their rights.

President George W. Bush has repeatedly assured Americans that the prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay are “the worst of the worst.” Last week, one of these men, Sami Al-Hajj, was released after spending more than seven years in U. S. custody. He was released without ever being prosecuted.

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Life after Guantanamo

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Published May 10, 2008, in "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques", Bagram, Detainee, Detainee Abuse, Guantanamo, Hunger Strike, Kandahar, Sudan, war crimes

Gamal Nkrumah traces the triumph of human dignity embodied by the struggle of a Sudanese cameraman’s affliction

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The ordeal of Al-Jazeera cameraman Sami Al- Haj has touched the Arab world. He has become an iconic figure and his release has demonstrated to all and sundry that the world’s most powerful nation has committed a terrible blunder. Al-Haj was a professional media worker with no proven connections with Al-Qaeda. He was not put on trial and neither was he charged. Yet he languished in Guantanamo Bay, was tortured and nearly lost his life. The administration of United States President George W Bush cannot admit that, of course.

Al-Haj’s brother Assem told Al-Ahram Weekly, “Sami is in high spirits, his morale is high even though his health is poor. He needs time to rest and recuperate to regain his strength. He has started to drink fluids, but it will take some time for him to eat solid food. It always takes time to recover from a shock, and Sami’s was a shocking experience.”

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