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Africa Subsaharan
US turns Ugandan Briton over to local authorities
2006-02-16
THE US has returned to Uganda a Ugandan-born Briton, Jamal Kiyemba, one of the 500 prisoners held by the US on Guantanamo Bay in Cuba on suspicion of participating in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington DC. The UK has disowned Kiyemba.
"Kiyemba? Never heard of him!"
Controversy shrouds his arrest in Afghanistan or Pakistan. Kiyemba was arrested soon after the fall of the Taliban regime following a US-led military operation that hunted in vain for the elusive Al Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden. Foreign affairs minister Sam Kutesa said on Sunday, “We have him. He was flown in and handed over last Tuesday (February 7) to the CMI (Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence) for debriefing. The Americans said that although he was arrested in Afghanistan, he was not so key to the September 11, 2001 bombings of New York and Washington DC.” He added, “Initially he wanted to return to his adopted country but the UK said no. After debriefing, and if there is no other problems with him, he will be released because this was his original homeland.”
"Then he's free to go to the Congo and do terrible things to people there."
On Kiyemba’s citizenship, Kutesa said, “Once Britain disowned him, he automatically assumed his original citizenship of Uganda where he was born.” Kiyemba left Uganda when he was 14 years old after his father died in an accident. He joined his mother in London where he finished school and later pursued a degree in pharmacy the University of Leicester. According to the UK-based Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), Kiyemba was in Pakistan when he was seized and turned over to the Americans for a bounty of $5,000. The IHRC said Kiyemba had never been to Afghanistan until the Americans took him there and there was no evidence that he ever committed a hostile act against the US or anyone else.
"Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! There ain't no evidence. Da witnesses is all dead!"
Posted by:Dan Darling

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