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Lawsuit

On May 14, 2008 the Daily Times of Pakistan reported that "Salim Mahmud Adam" and "Adel Hasan Hamad" had announced plans to sue the United States government over their detention.
The article reports that he told the Daily Times that his 2004 Combatant Status Review Tribunal had cleared him of the allegation that he was an "enemy combatant".

Hassan filed suit against the government and several individuals in federal district court in Seattle in April, 2010. His case was bolstered by an affidavit from Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson

Lawrence Wilkerson

Lawrence B. "Larry" Wilkerson is a retired United States Army Colonel and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell...

, a former aide to Secretary of State

United States Secretary of State

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Colin Powell

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, who stated that top U.S. officials, including George W. Bush

George W. Bush

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, Dick Cheney

Dick Cheney

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, and Donald Rumsfeld

Donald Rumsfeld

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, had known that the majority of the detainees initially sent to Guantánamo were innocent, but that the detainees had been kept there for reasons of political expedience.

Family

Hamad had daughter who was born after his arrest and who died before his release for lack of medical care.

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