A Canadian man recently released from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has been telling the BBC how he worked there undercover for the CIA. Abdurahman Khadr, the son of alleged former senior al-Qaeda member Ahmed Said, is now back in his native Canada. He left Guantanamo because he did not believe he was accomplishing his task - to identify al-Qaeda members and get them to give away information. Mr Khadr was initially detained in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taleban, and was first interviewed by British forces. He told the BBC he was held in a "series of jails" before agreeing to work with the CIA in Pakistan. "That didn’t work out, and they decided to send me to Cuba to work for them there." .... Mr Khadr said he was handed over to the American troops on 12 March, 2003. He said he had two main objectives. The first was to recognise people and identify which were considered terrorists and which were innocent civilians. He said he managed to identify some of the Guantanamo inmates. His second objective was to get suspected al-Qaeda members to talk to him. .... But he said he had little success at this. "They put me next to one person, and he was as stubborn with me as he was with them." ....
| Sounds like they fingered him for a stoolie from the start — or that he was doubled... |
Asked how many of the inmates were real terrorists, Mr Khadr said: "Eighty per cent were innocent. "Ten per cent were ’stubborns’, who should be there and should be kept there forever, and 10% are people that might do something if they got out." .... He claims the CIA promised he would be paid $3,000 for every month he worked undetected, plus a $5,000 bonus - but he was revealing his story because he had still not been paid anything. .... |