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| NYT's sympathetic take on former Islamic Defense Front member |
| 2005-12-18 |
| When Muhammad Saad Iqbal finally got a chance to plead his case to a panel of military officers at the American prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, he insisted that he had nothing to hide. "If I have committed any crime, I am ready for the punishment," Mr. Iqbal told the officers a year ago, according to a transcript of the hearing. "But I know that I am innocent. That is why I am here." When he finished his tale of having fallen in with Muslim radicals during a brief visit to Indonesia in late 2001, and having bragged to them about exploding chewing gum, shoe bombs and Osama bin Laden, one member of the tribunal praised him for being "very cooperative, very truthful." Another member told Mr. Iqbal he seemed to have "a very big ego." |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |