From Guantanamo inmate to Taliban militant leader
Published: 11 March, 2009, 16:01
Former Guantanamo prisoner freed in December 2007 resurfaces as key Taliban militant, AP quotes Pentagon and CIA officials.
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Five detainees at the US Guantanamo Bay camp have taken full responsibility for the 9/11 attacks that claimed the lives of over 3,000 people in New York in 2001, according to a report in The New York Times newspaper.
Although President Obama has vowed to shut down the infamous Guantanamo prison, things haven’t changed much and the detainees still complain of tortures and humiliation.
The lawyer of a British resident kept in Guantanamo Yvonne Bradley claims her client should be freed because he was tortured there.
Two former Guantanamo prisoners have taken up senior positions in Al-Qaeda after being released from prison. The two jihadists appeared on the group’s web-site according to the SITE monitoring agency.
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Published: 11 March, 2009, 16:01
Former Guantanamo prisoner freed in December 2007 resurfaces as key Taliban militant, AP quotes Pentagon and CIA officials.