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Eleven Pakistanis freed from Gitmo
2003-07-18
Eleven men have returned home to Pakistan after spending nearly two years as prisoners of the US military at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. An official of the Pakistani interior ministry said they had been expecting 13 citizens to be repatriated. There was no immediate explanation for the discrepancy.
Mahoud and Ibrihim changed their minds when they compared life in Gitmo to life in the Northwest Frontier.
Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema said that Pakistani security officials planned to interrogate vigorously with truncheons the men for a few days before allowing them to return to their homes.
"Hi boys! You know who we are. So just assume the position and save us some time, okay?"
News of the release came as a US diplomat said that a Swedish citizen held in Guantanamo was not among 37 other detainees to be released shortly. Sweden has criticised the US for labelling 23-year-old Mehdi-Muhammed Ghezali an enemy combatant rather than a prisoner of war. Sweden has argued that his detention is illegal, and it wants the US to present evidence against him or release him. Pierre Richard Prosper, the US ambassador-at-large for war crimes, said he could not reveal the identities of the prisoners to be released. "What I can say is that the Swedish detainee is not among them," he added. During a visit to Sweden in March Mr Prosper said that Mr Ghezali, arrested in Pakistan in 2001, would not be released because he was not cooperating with the authorities. He did not reveal what Mr Ghezali is accused of. But after a Swedish delegation visited the Guantanamo Bay prison in early July — the third since Mr Ghezali was taken there in 2002 — Mr Prosper said that Mr Ghezali "seems to be more open-minded about what he needs to do and what the situation is in Guantanamo."
"Think about it, Mehdi. You can sit here and swat flies or go back to frozen kaffir land Sweden and hit on big-boobed blondes!"
"Hokay, I’ll talk, I’ll talk!"
The freed Pakistanis were among thousands of foreigners who most certainly allegedly fought for the Taliban against coalition forces in Afghanistan.
Most of whom were Paks...
They were rounded up after the Taliban were overthrown in late 2001. American officials later transferred them to the high-security prison in an effort to glean information about their suspected links with the Taliban and al-Qaida. Pakistan has been holding talks with Washington on the release of its nationals from Guantanamo Bay for several months, and the US has already freed four other Pakistani prisoners. Mohammed Sanghir, who was released last November after 10 months, is demanding $10.4m (£6.5m) in compensation for alleged mental torture. He says he was caged in a small cell and kept in solitary confinement for days at a time.
Far better than he would have treated any western soldier that he would have taken prisoner.
Posted by:Steve White

#3  Mehdi-Muhammed Ghezali? Member of the old Stockholm family Ghezali or the lesser established Ghezalis of Gothenburg? Hmmmm
Posted by: Not Mike Moore   2003-7-18 5:55:17 PM  

#2  10.4 mil? I doubt his mental's that big...
Posted by: mojo   2003-7-18 10:58:17 AM  

#1  Any word on how much weight they gained while they were in that "hellhole"?
Posted by: tu3031   2003-7-18 10:19:21 AM  

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