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Africa North
US officials accused of insulting Islam
2008-05-03
An Al-Jazeera cameraman recently released from the Guantanamo Bay Prison has accused the US authorities of insulting Islamic symbols. There were "many violations -- (we were) deprived from praying and there were... deliberate insults to God's holy book, the Qur'an, at the US military prison in Guantanamo," Sami al-Hajj said from his hospital bed in Khartoum, AFP reported on Friday.
Right on schedule. al-Qaeda mook claims we insulted the holy book ...
Former Sudanese Guantanamo detainee al-Hajj was sent home on Thursday following six years of detention.

Pakistani intelligence officers seized al-Hajj while he was traveling near the Afghan border in December 2001. He was handed over to the US military in January 2002, accused of being an "enemy combatant," and was flown to the US base in Cuba.

Al-Hajj went on a hunger strike in January 2007, demanding 'the right for detainees to practice their religion freely and without duress, application of the Geneva Convention to the treatment of Guantanamo detainees and his release or trial by a federal US court.'
Posted by:tipper

#14  amen, RJ, good call
Posted by: Frank G   2008-05-03 21:12  

#13  Some footage of the inmates praying and such would be nice to release about now along with the quotes from others that have been released about how well they were treated and the bits from Al Queda about how to lie about imprisonment.

We have not been properly fighting the information war. Not at all.

Posted by: rjschwarz   2008-05-03 21:06  

#12  Hilarious. This guy was grimacing in pain as they carried him off the plane on a stretcher in front of the AP cameras. Later in the same segment he was hale and hearty, standing and, like Goebbels, shaking his finger as he criticized his treatment at Gitmo.
Posted by: KBK   2008-05-03 20:42  

#11  I like the idea of a rumor that this al-Jazeera cameraman has been "programmed" by the CIA, and has a secret "message" for top al-Qaeda leaders.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2008-05-03 18:33  

#10  I'll start the bidding at $100.... ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2008-05-03 18:20  

#9  Islam is an insult to decent people.
Posted by: JohnQC   2008-05-03 18:20  

#8  I'm sure a lot of people here would pay for the privledge.... this is, after all, Rantburg :)
Posted by: CrazyFool   2008-05-03 17:33  

#7  I'd do it for free.
Posted by: gorb   2008-05-03 17:29  

#6  i wsih the US government would hire me for 2 hours too tell all the crybabies in the world to fuck off
Posted by: sinse   2008-05-03 13:07  

#5  George Smiley -

Mohammed mama so fat camel is ride her

Glad to hear Toby is still well.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2008-05-03 11:34  

#4  What's the recidivism rate among these gitmo releases? Has there been any formal count of how many are rearrested or die in new attacks?
Posted by: regular joe   2008-05-03 08:25  

#3  I have a staunch man, a Hungarian, who oft not only insults Islam, but insults Islams Mama. He is very crude, albeit handy, and damn well armed.

A sample:
Mohammed mama so fat camel is ride her
Posted by: George Smiley   2008-05-03 08:20  

#2  An Al-Jazeera cameraman . . .

If the lead sentence began, "A Swedish grandmother of four . . ." would it have been more misleading?
Posted by: Angavins Scourge of the Munchkins9583   2008-05-03 07:28  

#1  I guess they provided an edition with translation and scholarly commentary.
Posted by: Eric Jablow   2008-05-03 07:23  

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