(US Federal) Judge orders release of Yemeni from Guantánamo (29th detainee ordered released)

[sabra]

Source: Miami Herald

A ruling in favor of a Yemeni Guantánamo captive raised to 29 the number of detainees that federal judges have ordered released through unlawful detention lawsuits.

A federal judge has ordered the Pentagon to free a Yemeni father of two with a heart condition who has been held for seven and a half years at Guantánamo on suspicion of serving as Osama bin Laden's bodyguard.

Mohammed al Adahi, 47, testified by video link from the prison camp that he had met bin Laden socially during the summer before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks but never worked for him or waged jihad.

``I did not fight the American alliance. I did not deal with Taliban or al Qaeda. I am a working man in my country ,'' he said, according to a transcript of his June hearing at the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.

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Pakistani troops captured Adahi as he fled the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan soon after 9/11. He was aboard a bus carrying wounded Taliban soldiers, the basis of a Pentagon claim that he had been in league with the Taliban.

On his wrist was a Casio watch, which U.S. military intelligence said was similar to those al Qaeda terrorists had rigged as explosive triggers. But the Yemeni told the judge at his hearing that his watch had hands, and wasn't digital, a key distinction.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1192169.html

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[winyanstaz]

2. that poor man....

arrested for riding a bus and wearing a watch....and I am sure his family suffered as well.