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| Two Sudanese Gitmo prisoners freed, say were innocent |
| 2007-12-14 |
| (KUNA) -- Two Sudanese, who were detained in the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, arrived back home in Khartoum Thursday after being found innocent and being freed by US authorities. The two inmates, Adel Hamad Abdel-Muttaleb and Salem Mahmoud Adam arrived back home on board a US aircraft after being found not guilty, five years after they were detained in connection with the September 11 bomb attack that brought down the World Trade Center in New York in 2001. They said a US aircraft had flown them from Guantanamo Bay to Afghanistan before another plane conveyed them to Khartoum Airport, where they were handed over to local authorities. Adam said he was detained in Pakistan in May 2002 and flown to Cuba in August of the same year after being subjected to an intensive interrogation at the US base Wagram in Afghanistan. As for Abdel-Muttaleb, he said he was detained on July 17, 2002 while he was working for a hospital. He said he was tortured during the first phase of interrogation in Afghanistan and suffered much during his detention in Cuba. "It was so bitter to be tortured without reason," he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 ...after being found innocent and being freed by US authorities. Really? Who made that call? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-12-14 13:12 |
| #1 all criminals claim they are innocent. Its expected. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-12-14 12:49 |