Spinning how many guantanamo detainees have returned to. Guantanamo bay detainee is case of mistaken identity published december 2, 2015 updated on december 2, 2015 at 6. Former guantanamo guard steve wood recently took a trip to. The recidivism rate is nearly 29 percent and has been climbing steadily since detainees began being released from guantanamo.
Guantanamo bay detainee is case of mistaken identity. List of books and articles about guantanamo bay detention. Mistaken identity keeps detainee at guantanamo bay cnnpolitics. Afghan culture and customs afghanistans 33 million people are made up of more than twenty ethnic groups with their own distinctive languages and cultural mores. Guantanamo detainee charged isn 768 wikisource, the. Slahi related to the main character, the dude, a victim of mistaken identity. A notentirelyfacetious consideration of the gitmo conundrum.
The pentagon has approved the release of a prisoner who was held at the guantanamo bay facility for years due a case of mistaken identity. My guantanamo diary paperback june 23, 2009 by mahvish khan author 4. Goodreads members who liked guantanamo boy also liked. The prisoners held at gitmo are, for the most part, what is known under international law as francstireurs, nonuniformed. Mustafa al shamiri, 37, had been detained under the pretenses of being a senior alqaeda trainer in afghanistan. When wood tried to search for 760 in guantanamos detainee database, he found nothing. Summary of the reengagement of detainees formerly held at.
Man held at guantanamo for years in case of mistaken identity, u. When a prisoner asked for my books, i learned his horrifying story. Guantanamo bay and the judicialmoral treatment of the other by clark butler purdue university press, 2007. His story captured the worlds attention because he was a victim of mistaken identity. A preponderance of information which identifies a specific former gtmo detainee as directly involved in. A case of mistaken identity has kept one man locked away at the u. The office of military commissions announced today that charges have been sworn against guantanamo detainee ahmed mohammed ahmed haza al darbi of saudi arabia. A militant who fought for the taliban in afghanistan and has been held without charge at guantanamo bay for years was largely the victim of mistaken identity, according to u.
This includes nearly 10 percent of detainees who have returned to. After years in gitmo, pentagon says detainee is case of. Guantanamo detainee asks not for prosecution, but truth in two new interviews, shaker aamer, a british former detainee at the u. I became curious and tracked down a detainee who enjoys my books. A compliant detainee is escorted from a life skills class. Opinion after guantanamo, another injustice the new york times. Guantanamo detainee lawyers ask that death penalty case be dropped. After 15 years, held without charges, i deserve justice. Guantanamo parole board clears yemeni who was victim of. I was captured when i was in my 20s and brought to guantanamo bay in 2004, after more than two years in secret prisons. John mooregetty images most of the 166 detainees at guantanamo bay may never see a day in court.
In the kafkaesque world america created post911, alshamiri could not answer his torturers because he had no knowledge of what they were demanding from him. Guantanamo bay prisoner victim of mistaken identity, says. Oral argument on the merits is scheduled for september 27, 20 before d. Man held at guantanamo for years a case of mistaken. A preponderance of information which identifies a specific former gtmo detainee as directly involved in terrorist or insurgent activities. An american history and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. On march 8, 2011, saeed bakhouch, an algerian gtmo detainee also known as razak ali, noted an appeal of the district courts january 2011 denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
Awardwinning journalist david rose argues that the camp not only constitutes a grotesque abuse of human rights but is also ineffective as a tool for combating. United states interrogators told him his was a case of mistaken identity. Gitmo inmates constitutional rights jun th, 2008 3 min read. Guantanamo prisoner held for years on mistaken identity. Guantanamos first 100 days by karen greenberg oxford university press, 2009. The first 174 pages of the book details his early life, and subsequent standard military training in kosovo, pakistan and.
Victims of mistaken identity among the 10 sent from guantanamo to. Now, desiring after years to reduce the prison population at gitmo, the department of defense says alshamiris imprisonment was all a simply mistake of confused identity. The largest and most dominant of these groups, politically and economically, are the pashtuns 42% of the population, the second most populous group are the. Arrested again and then held, although the government where he was arrested could not understand why. A militant who fought for the taliban in afghanistan and has been held without charge at guantanamo bay for years. Alshamiris accusers now paint a completely different picture, and confess it was a bureaucratic cockup over his name. Guantanamo detainee lawyers ask that death penalty case be. The writer shares the tragic story of one of his fans. Mistaken identity keeps detainee at guantanamo bay. For the purposes of this definition, engagement in antius. Find books like guantanamo boy from the worlds largest community of readers.
Read one by a lawyer that unquestioningly presents a detainees version of the war, read one by a journalist who needs to sell sensational headlines, and read one by a soldier or sailor who spent a year getting poop thrown at her by combatants. Salahi also had books, a television, a playstation, and an old laptop, on. To critics the world over, guantanamo bay, cuba, is a striking symbol of american hypocrisy. The board also noted the detainee s candid responses to the boards questions, to include recognition of his past activities, clear indications of a change in the detainee s mindset.
Mustafa abdul qawi abdul aziz al shamyri is a citizen of yemen held in extrajudicial detention in the united states guantanamo bay detainment camps, in cuba. A guantanamo bay prisoner locked up for years who was thought to be a member of alqaeda is found to be a victim of mistaken identity. A prisoner at guantanamo bay, mustafa alaziz alshamiri, was held for. Guantanamo detainee asks not for prosecution, but truth. It was previously assessed that ym434 also was an alqaida facilitator or courier, as well. It is not about them it is about us chapter 6 2 professor mark denbeaux and his students at the seton hall school of law have written two excellent reports comparing the actual government data to government officials claims that all detainees are. Mustafa alaziz alshamiri wrongly held at guantanamo bay for.
My journey is the autobiography of david hicks, an australian who was held in the us guantanamo bay detention camp for five and a half years before eventually pleading guilty to the charge of material support to terrorism in a military commission trial. So, mohammed ali abdullah bwazir, 35 or 36 year old detainee at the u. Circuit judges brett kavanaugh, harry edwards and stephen williams. Guantanamo inmate mistakenly held for years due to name. The oldest prisoner at guantanamo bay has been refused permission to read a book on pacifism and nonviolence written by relatives of victims of the 911 attacks a lawyer for 70yearold. Gtmo, communicating with past terrorist associates about nonnefarious activities, writing antius books or articles, or making antius propaganda statements. Carol rosenberg reports on guantanamo bay, cuba, the place, policy, people, war court.
Flight 77 is the plane that hit the pentagon on 911. The analogy with children is not too far wrong, for all of these poets by necessity have been. Obama travels to gitmo to try and convince bwazir to leave. She speaks on behalf of her client, mohamedou slahi, a current detainee at the u. By charley keyes, cnn senior national security producer. Hes one of 107 still there guantanamo bay detainee mohamedou slahi wrote the book, guantanamo diary, describing what hed been through. Guantanamo detainee who wrote a book about his torture to. Guantanamo bay detainee is case of mistaken identity nbc. A man who has spent years in the us prison camp at guantanamo bay, cuba, was arrested partly in a case of mistaken identity, us officials conceded on tuesday. A guantanamo guard and his detainee reunite former guantanamo guard steve wood recently took a trip to mauritania to visit mohamedou ould slahi, the prisoner he watched for almost a year. The department of defense says that a case of mistaken identity has kept mustafa abdalqawi abdalaziz alshamiri locked away at the u. The accused, al darbi, is the brotherinlaw of the flight 77 hijacker al mihdhar.
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