Juma Mohammed Abdul Latif Al Dossary
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Jumah Mohammed Abdul Latif Al Dossari is a Bahrain
i, formerly held in the American prison for security detainees, Camp Delta
, at the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay
. After five years of the detention there, three and half of which he spent in solitary confinement
, he was released, with no charges against him, to Saudi Arabia in 2007.
In late July 2005, Al-Dossari spoke with his lawyer Joshua Colangelo-Bryan about the summer's first hunger strike. The prisoners ended this strike on July 28, 2005, when guard commander Michael Bumgarner
promised concessions.
Speaking in Bahrain in September 2005, following the meeting with his client, Colangelo-Bryan revealed that Al-Dossari had informed him that:
Colangelo-Bryan believed that Al-Dossari joined in the summer's second hunger strike, which started approximately August 8, 2005.
The campaign to free the detainee is being led by Bahraini MP Mohammed Khalid
.
Chicago Public Radio's program, This American Life
, featured Al Dossary in a Peabody Award-winning broadcast about Guantanamo in 2006.
summarized a letter Al Dossary had written, protesting his innocence. The letter was post-marked June 10, 2005 and described various abuses he had suffered, including:
On September 17, 2005, the Gulf Daily News summarized a letter received from Al Dossary's father in which he confirms that he has throat cancer, expects to die soon and pleads to see his son.
and Shafiq Rasul
were released in 2004. They reported that their cells were near Al Dossary's.
According to Human Rights Watch:
The Newstandard
reports:
warned of various signs of Al Dossary's deteriorating mental health.
The story was based on notes from Colangelo-Bryan, which US intelligence officials had declassified on October 19, 2005. According to Colangelo-Byran:
According to a report in the Washington Post on November 1, 2005, Al Dossary attempted to commit suicide on October 15, whilst taking a washroom break during a visit by his lawyer, Joshua Colangelo-Bryan.
Colangelo-Bryan described finding Al Dossary hanging unconscious from a noose in the washroom, with blood pouring from a large wound in his right arm. American authorities decline to comment on specific detainee's cases, but they have acknowledged that 22 detainees have made 36 suicide attempts.
Three of the attempted suicides have been successful.
Following his most recent suicide attempt Al Dossary's lawyers filed a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction on his behalf.
In the restraining order they requested:
His lawyers requested that an independent medical professional be permitted to asses Al Dossary's mental state. They described the Americans' refusal to provide news of Al Dossary's health, following his recent suicide attempt, as "gratuitous callousness".
Al Dossary was reported to have had made another suicide attempt, on November 13, 2005, by ripping out his stitches.
The Kansas City Star said that this was Al Dossary's ninth suicide attempt.
The Star quotes Colonel Michael Bumgarner
, the camp guard commander, who wrote in an affidavit that Al Dossary's despair was his own fault, because Al Dossary had not claimed 73 of his last 97 exercise privileges. Further his interrogators had occasionally rewarded him with take out pizza, hamburgers, and had let him watch the movies Gladiator and Troy
.
On May 11, 2006 the Gulf Daily News
reported that Colangelo-Bryan said that al Dossary had tried to slit his throat in March.
office concerning interest the FBI had in ties between Al Dossary, and the Lackawanna Six
.
Six Yemeni-Americans from Lackawanna
, near Buffalo, secretly traveled to Pakistan
and Afghanistan, for jihad training, in early 2001. Ahearn told the Buffalo News that two of the Lackawanna Six said that Al Dossary had delivered a "fiery speech" at the Guidance Mosque in Lackawanna. According to Ahearn the FBI is interested in learning whether Al Dossary may have helped fund the Lackawanna men's travel expenses.
The Buffalo News article quotes from Al Dossary's Combatant Status Review Tribunal
. They report that Al Dossary acknowledges traveling to Buffalo, and acknowledges giving a "fiery speech", but denied ever encouraging anyone to join al Qaeda. They report Al Dossary denied having any ties to al Qaeda or terrorism.
The Embassy statement asserted:
The statement denied that Al Dossary was kept in solitary confinement, and assured readers that Al Dossary had access to excellent medical care, and insisted that the treatment of detainees held in Guantanamo Bay were "humane".
Mark Sullivan
, one of Al Dossary's lawyers, challenged the points in the Embassy's statement. The Gulf Daily News
quoted Sullivan as saying he had no knowledge of any judicial action by US authorities following allegations of abuse.
Sullivan connected the incident described in Eric Saar's book, Inside the Wire, where interrogator Sergeant Jeanette Arocho-Burkart
smeared a red liquid she claimed was her menses on to a detainee's face with Al Dossary. Sullivan claimed that Dossary was the detainee who was told he was being smeared with menses. However, in press reports that detainee was described as being a Saudi
.
Al Dossary told Colangelo-Bryan that he acquired a dangerous blood disease as a result of a blood transfusion that followed his March 11, 2006 suicide attempt.
Al Dossary had learned that his father finally died from terminal cancer, shortly before he drafted this letter. The camp authorities had informed him of the death, which they said they learned about over the internet. Al Dossary said that the camp authorities were not allowing him to receive mail from his family, and were withholding his personal belongings from him, and keeping him in solitary confinement.
Al Dossary said that bad news, on top of the news of the blood condition, the withholding of all mail from his family, and the solitary confinement, had left him feeling his death was imminent.
Al Dossary also reported that the camp authorities had promised him a rare phone call to his family, following his father's death.
Al Dossary's June 12 letter was only declassified by the military on July 25, 2006, so it is unknown whether Al Dossary was able to take advantage of the camp authority's offer.
In the letter Al Dossari wrote:
Colangelo-Bryan described Al Dossari as "coherent" but "utterly exhausted and desperate".
Pentagon spokesman Jeffrey D. Gordon
denied that al Dossary had been mistreated. He asserted that al Qaeda trained its operatives to claim abuse while incarcerated. According to the Associated Press Simpson said:
On July 17, 2007 the Gulf Daily News reported that Juma was one of the men repatriated to Saudi custody; that he had been sent to Saudi Arabia because he had joint Bahraini/Saudi citizenship.
The Gulf Daily News reports:
On Thursday August 23, 2007 the Gulf Daily News
reported that Juma al Dossari had not only been released, but was going to receive official assistance from the Saudi government.
The article quoted Bahraini Member of Parliament Mohammed Khalid
, who said:
An article in the December 21, 2007 issue of the Los Angeles Times
profiled Al Dosari's rehabilitation. The article quoted al Dosari:
The BBC World Service
broadcast a half hour interview with Al Dossari on June 28, 2008.
Jumah al Dossari of his experiences in US custody.
He started his account with being moved when he came across and watched "United 93" without knowing what it was about.
He described how watching the account of the passengers brought him to tears.
He described some of the abuse he went through in US custody, including:
Al Dossari described the beatings decreasing in frequency in his later years in Guantanamo, but that he was subjected to years of isolation, which he found even more difficult. He concluded:
Prime Minister
Gordon Brown
toured the rehabilitation center
for former Guantanamo captives, and, while there spoke with al Dossari, Ghanim al Harbi, and other former captives. The former captives received a flat, a job, and 20,000 pounds for a dowry, so they can get married. The Daily Mail report said that Al Dossari was now married.
In 2009, at the inauguration of Barack Obama
as President of the United States, the Associated Press
interviewed al-Dossary, who stated that his only wish was that "...Obama was elected years ago. Guantanamo would not have happened".
Bahrain
' , officially the Kingdom of Bahrain , is a small island state near the western shores of the Persian Gulf. It is ruled by the Al Khalifa royal family. The population in 2010 stood at 1,214,705, including 235,108 non-nationals. Formerly an emirate, Bahrain was declared a kingdom in 2002.Bahrain is...
i, formerly held in the American prison for security detainees, Camp Delta
Camp Delta
Camp Delta is a permanent detainment camp at Guantanamo Bay that replaced the temporary facilities of Camp X-Ray. Its first facilities were built between February 27 and mid-April 2002 by Navy Seabees, Marine Engineers, and workers from Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root...
, at the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base is located on of land and water at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba which the United States leased for use as a coaling station following the Cuban-American Treaty of 1903. The base is located on the shore of Guantánamo Bay at the southeastern end of Cuba. It is the oldest overseas...
. After five years of the detention there, three and half of which he spent in solitary confinement
Solitary confinement
Solitary confinement is a special form of imprisonment in which a prisoner is isolated from any human contact, though often with the exception of members of prison staff. It is sometimes employed as a form of punishment beyond incarceration for a prisoner, and has been cited as an additional...
, he was released, with no charges against him, to Saudi Arabia in 2007.
In late July 2005, Al-Dossari spoke with his lawyer Joshua Colangelo-Bryan about the summer's first hunger strike. The prisoners ended this strike on July 28, 2005, when guard commander Michael Bumgarner
Michael Bumgarner
Colonel Michael Bumgarner is an officer in the United States Armed Services.In 2005 and 2006, he was the commander of the Joint Detention Group, the guard force component of Joint Task Force Guantanamo....
promised concessions.
Speaking in Bahrain in September 2005, following the meeting with his client, Colangelo-Bryan revealed that Al-Dossari had informed him that:
- the detainees were willing to die, if necessary, to resolve their grievances.
- the detainees were protesting their imprisonment without having fair hearings.
- the detainees were protesting interference with their religious practices, including interruption of the call to prayer by prison officers who talked loudly during the call and even mimicked it.
- the detainees were served food which was often rotten and tap water which was yellow and brackish.
- the number of detainees being given acute medical attention had overwhelmed the camp's infirmary, and that critically ill detainees were in cots in the interrogation area.
Colangelo-Bryan believed that Al-Dossari joined in the summer's second hunger strike, which started approximately August 8, 2005.
The campaign to free the detainee is being led by Bahraini MP Mohammed Khalid
Mohammed Khalid
One of Bahrain’s most outspoken Islamist MPs is Sheikh Mohammed Khalid, the Al-Menbar Islamic Society representative from the Northern Governorate...
.
Chicago Public Radio's program, This American Life
This American Life
This American Life is a weekly hour-long radio program produced by WBEZ and hosted by Ira Glass. It is distributed by Public Radio International on PRI affiliate stations and is also available as a free weekly podcast. Primarily a journalistic non-fiction program, it has also featured essays,...
, featured Al Dossary in a Peabody Award-winning broadcast about Guantanamo in 2006.
Letters from Al Dossary, and his father
On September 5, 2005 the Gulf Daily NewsGulf Daily News
The Gulf Daily News is an English-language newspaper published in the Kingdom of Bahrain by Al Hilal Group. It is distributed locally in Bahrain. It is owned by the Al Hilal Group, which publishes 13 other newspapers and magazines, including the local Arabic newspaper Akhbar Al Khaleej. The paper,...
summarized a letter Al Dossary had written, protesting his innocence. The letter was post-marked June 10, 2005 and described various abuses he had suffered, including:
- cigarettes being extinguished on his body.
- being made to walk on barbed wire.
- being urinated on by GI's.
On September 17, 2005, the Gulf Daily News summarized a letter received from Al Dossary's father in which he confirms that he has throat cancer, expects to die soon and pleads to see his son.
Released British detainees reports
British detainees Tarek DergoulTarek Dergoul
Tarek Dergoul is a citizen of the United Kingdom who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 534....
and Shafiq Rasul
Shafiq Rasul
Shafiq Rasul is best known for being a detainee held at Guantanamo Bay by the United States, which treated him an unlawful combatant. His detainee ID number was 86....
were released in 2004. They reported that their cells were near Al Dossary's.
According to Human Rights Watch:
The Newstandard
The NewStandard
The NewStandard was an independent, nonprofit, ad-free news service. After nearly 3.5 years on line, The NewStandard discontinued publication on April 27, 2007...
reports:
Suicide attempts
A story published in the October 20, 2005, edition of the Gulf Daily NewsGulf Daily News
The Gulf Daily News is an English-language newspaper published in the Kingdom of Bahrain by Al Hilal Group. It is distributed locally in Bahrain. It is owned by the Al Hilal Group, which publishes 13 other newspapers and magazines, including the local Arabic newspaper Akhbar Al Khaleej. The paper,...
warned of various signs of Al Dossary's deteriorating mental health.
The story was based on notes from Colangelo-Bryan, which US intelligence officials had declassified on October 19, 2005. According to Colangelo-Byran:
- Al Dossary had made earlier suicide attempts.
- Al Dossary said he was afraid he was losing his mind.
- Al Dossary reported that the lights were never turned off in his cell, and this interfered with his ability to sleep.
- Al Dossary reported that he knew he needed mental health care, but he didn't trust the camp medical staff.
- Al Dossary reports he has been suffering from seizures.
- Al Dossary reports that camp medical staff have withheld medical treatment from him in the past.
- Al Dossary reports that when he can fall asleep he awakes screaming, from nightmares.
According to a report in the Washington Post on November 1, 2005, Al Dossary attempted to commit suicide on October 15, whilst taking a washroom break during a visit by his lawyer, Joshua Colangelo-Bryan.
Colangelo-Bryan described finding Al Dossary hanging unconscious from a noose in the washroom, with blood pouring from a large wound in his right arm. American authorities decline to comment on specific detainee's cases, but they have acknowledged that 22 detainees have made 36 suicide attempts.
Three of the attempted suicides have been successful.
Following his most recent suicide attempt Al Dossary's lawyers filed a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction on his behalf.
In the restraining order they requested:
- Reading material beyond a copy of the Qu'ran.
- Turning off the lights in his cell, to help make it possible for him to sleep.
- Biweekly telephone calls to his family and lawyers.
- Being allowed increased exercise time.
- Being allowed to receive mail from his family.
His lawyers requested that an independent medical professional be permitted to asses Al Dossary's mental state. They described the Americans' refusal to provide news of Al Dossary's health, following his recent suicide attempt, as "gratuitous callousness".
Al Dossary was reported to have had made another suicide attempt, on November 13, 2005, by ripping out his stitches.
The Kansas City Star said that this was Al Dossary's ninth suicide attempt.
The Star quotes Colonel Michael Bumgarner
Michael Bumgarner
Colonel Michael Bumgarner is an officer in the United States Armed Services.In 2005 and 2006, he was the commander of the Joint Detention Group, the guard force component of Joint Task Force Guantanamo....
, the camp guard commander, who wrote in an affidavit that Al Dossary's despair was his own fault, because Al Dossary had not claimed 73 of his last 97 exercise privileges. Further his interrogators had occasionally rewarded him with take out pizza, hamburgers, and had let him watch the movies Gladiator and Troy
Troy (film)
Troy is a 2004 epic war film written by David Benioff and directed by Wolfgang Petersen based on the events of the Trojan War. Its cast includes Brad Pitt as Achilles, Eric Bana as Hector.It was nominated for the Academy Award for Costume Design.-Plot:...
.
On May 11, 2006 the Gulf Daily News
Gulf Daily News
The Gulf Daily News is an English-language newspaper published in the Kingdom of Bahrain by Al Hilal Group. It is distributed locally in Bahrain. It is owned by the Al Hilal Group, which publishes 13 other newspapers and magazines, including the local Arabic newspaper Akhbar Al Khaleej. The paper,...
reported that Colangelo-Bryan said that al Dossary had tried to slit his throat in March.
Alleged to have been tied to the "Lackawanna Six"
An article published on November 7, 2005, quotes Peter J. Ahearn, the special agent in charge of the FBI's BuffaloBuffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...
office concerning interest the FBI had in ties between Al Dossary, and the Lackawanna Six
Buffalo Six
The Buffalo Six is a group of six Yemeni-American childhood friends who were convicted of providing material support to al-Qaeda, based on the fact they had attended an Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan together in the Spring of 2001.They are:*Mukhtar Al-Bakri,*Sahim Alwan,*Faysal...
.
Six Yemeni-Americans from Lackawanna
Lackawanna, New York
Lackawanna is a city in Erie County, New York, U.S., located just south of the city of Buffalo in the western part of New York state. The population was 18,141 at the 2010 census. The name derives from the Lackawanna Steel Company...
, near Buffalo, secretly traveled to Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
and Afghanistan, for jihad training, in early 2001. Ahearn told the Buffalo News that two of the Lackawanna Six said that Al Dossary had delivered a "fiery speech" at the Guidance Mosque in Lackawanna. According to Ahearn the FBI is interested in learning whether Al Dossary may have helped fund the Lackawanna men's travel expenses.
The Buffalo News article quotes from Al Dossary's Combatant Status Review Tribunal
Combatant Status Review Tribunal
The Combatant Status Review Tribunals were a set of tribunals for confirming whether detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had been correctly designated as "enemy combatants". The CSRTs were established July 7, 2004 by order of U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense...
. They report that Al Dossary acknowledges traveling to Buffalo, and acknowledges giving a "fiery speech", but denied ever encouraging anyone to join al Qaeda. They report Al Dossary denied having any ties to al Qaeda or terrorism.
U.S. Embassy in Bahrain responds to abuse allegations
On November 9, 2005, the U.S. Embassy in Bahrain issued a statement to respond to the allegations that Dossary had been abused, and that his physical and mental health was at risk.The Embassy statement asserted:
- "The US government takes all allegations of abuse seriously. When a credible allegation of improper conduct surfaces, it is reviewed, and when factually warranted, investigated.
- "As a result of the investigation, administrative, disciplinary, or judicial action is taken as appropriate.
- "We have no evidence that substantiates that Mr Al Dossary was the subject of any sexual humiliation."
The statement denied that Al Dossary was kept in solitary confinement, and assured readers that Al Dossary had access to excellent medical care, and insisted that the treatment of detainees held in Guantanamo Bay were "humane".
Mark Sullivan
Mark Sullivan
Mark Sullivan may refer to:* Mark J. Sullivan, Director of the United States Secret Service, 2006-* Mark Sullivan, founder Snowboard Magazine* Mark Sullivan , justice on the New Jersey Supreme Court, 1973-1981...
, one of Al Dossary's lawyers, challenged the points in the Embassy's statement. The Gulf Daily News
Gulf Daily News
The Gulf Daily News is an English-language newspaper published in the Kingdom of Bahrain by Al Hilal Group. It is distributed locally in Bahrain. It is owned by the Al Hilal Group, which publishes 13 other newspapers and magazines, including the local Arabic newspaper Akhbar Al Khaleej. The paper,...
quoted Sullivan as saying he had no knowledge of any judicial action by US authorities following allegations of abuse.
Sullivan connected the incident described in Eric Saar's book, Inside the Wire, where interrogator Sergeant Jeanette Arocho-Burkart
Jeanette Arocho-Burkart
Jeanette Arocho-Burkart is a Sergeant in the United States Army.-Military career:Arocho-Burkart was an interrogator at the American prison in the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay. She is known as one of the female interrogators who used sexual humiliation, and sexual taunting, to break the will of...
smeared a red liquid she claimed was her menses on to a detainee's face with Al Dossary. Sullivan claimed that Dossary was the detainee who was told he was being smeared with menses. However, in press reports that detainee was described as being a Saudi
Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
.
Appeal for an independent medical examination
On June 12, 2006 Al Dossary wrote a letter to his lawyer Colangelo-Bryan, requesting an independent medical examination.Al Dossary told Colangelo-Bryan that he acquired a dangerous blood disease as a result of a blood transfusion that followed his March 11, 2006 suicide attempt.
- "After they (the US military) gave me a blood transfusion after my suicide attempt, I have been suffering from a strange condition,
- "They carried out an examination of my blood and they told me I have blood diseases and problems.
- "I request you (his lawyers) to inform my government about this and publish it in the media - and request my government to send a medical delegation to see and confirm that they do not transfer dangerous diseases to me through blood transfusions."
Al Dossary had learned that his father finally died from terminal cancer, shortly before he drafted this letter. The camp authorities had informed him of the death, which they said they learned about over the internet. Al Dossary said that the camp authorities were not allowing him to receive mail from his family, and were withholding his personal belongings from him, and keeping him in solitary confinement.
Al Dossary said that bad news, on top of the news of the blood condition, the withholding of all mail from his family, and the solitary confinement, had left him feeling his death was imminent.
Al Dossary also reported that the camp authorities had promised him a rare phone call to his family, following his father's death.
Al Dossary's June 12 letter was only declassified by the military on July 25, 2006, so it is unknown whether Al Dossary was able to take advantage of the camp authority's offer.
A letter about suicide
A letter Al Dossari wrote on April 18, 2007 was cleared by DoD censors on May 20, 2007.In the letter Al Dossari wrote:
Colangelo-Bryan described Al Dossari as "coherent" but "utterly exhausted and desperate".
Pentagon spokesman Jeffrey D. Gordon
Jeffrey D. Gordon
Jeffrey D. Gordon is a communications consultant to several conservative Washington, DC-based think tanks. Gordon is also a contributing columnist to Fox News, AOL News, the Washington Times and other media outlets. Previously, he was a Commander in the United States Navy.-Naval career:He was...
denied that al Dossary had been mistreated. He asserted that al Qaeda trained its operatives to claim abuse while incarcerated. According to the Associated Press Simpson said:
Saudi repatriation and release
On July 16, 2007 the Department of Defense reported that a further sixteen Saudis captives were repatriated from Guantanamo to Saudi custody.On July 17, 2007 the Gulf Daily News reported that Juma was one of the men repatriated to Saudi custody; that he had been sent to Saudi Arabia because he had joint Bahraini/Saudi citizenship.
The Gulf Daily News reports:
On Thursday August 23, 2007 the Gulf Daily News
Gulf Daily News
The Gulf Daily News is an English-language newspaper published in the Kingdom of Bahrain by Al Hilal Group. It is distributed locally in Bahrain. It is owned by the Al Hilal Group, which publishes 13 other newspapers and magazines, including the local Arabic newspaper Akhbar Al Khaleej. The paper,...
reported that Juma al Dossari had not only been released, but was going to receive official assistance from the Saudi government.
The article quoted Bahraini Member of Parliament Mohammed Khalid
Mohammed Khalid
One of Bahrain’s most outspoken Islamist MPs is Sheikh Mohammed Khalid, the Al-Menbar Islamic Society representative from the Northern Governorate...
, who said:
An article in the December 21, 2007 issue of the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
profiled Al Dosari's rehabilitation. The article quoted al Dosari:
The BBC World Service
BBC World Service
The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting in 27 languages to many parts of the world via analogue and digital shortwave, internet streaming and podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays...
broadcast a half hour interview with Al Dossari on June 28, 2008.
Jumah al Dossari's Washington Post article
On August 17, 2008 the Washington Post published an account fromJumah al Dossari of his experiences in US custody.
He started his account with being moved when he came across and watched "United 93" without knowing what it was about.
He described how watching the account of the passengers brought him to tears.
He described some of the abuse he went through in US custody, including:
- being beaten so badly he spent three days in intensive care;
- having cigarettes put out on his body;
- being chained to the floor during transportation.
- being sexually assaulted
Al Dossari described the beatings decreasing in frequency in his later years in Guantanamo, but that he was subjected to years of isolation, which he found even more difficult. He concluded:
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Meeting with Gordon Brown
On 2 November 2008 that BritishUnited Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
Prime Minister
Prime minister
A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime...
Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown
James Gordon Brown is a British Labour Party politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 until 2010. He previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour Government from 1997 to 2007...
toured the rehabilitation center
Care Rehabilitation Center
The Care Rehabilitation Center is a facility in Saudi Arabia intended to re-integrate former jihadists into the mainstream of Saudi culture.The center is located in a former resort complex, complete with swimming pools, and other recreational facilities, outside Riyadh.According to Peter Taylor,...
for former Guantanamo captives, and, while there spoke with al Dossari, Ghanim al Harbi, and other former captives. The former captives received a flat, a job, and 20,000 pounds for a dowry, so they can get married. The Daily Mail report said that Al Dossari was now married.
In 2009, at the inauguration of Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
as President of the United States, the Associated Press
Associated Press
The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
interviewed al-Dossary, who stated that his only wish was that "...Obama was elected years ago. Guantanamo would not have happened".
External links
- (.pdf) documents from Al Dossary's Combatant Status Review TribunalCombatant Status Review TribunalThe Combatant Status Review Tribunals were a set of tribunals for confirming whether detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had been correctly designated as "enemy combatants". The CSRTs were established July 7, 2004 by order of U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense...
- 'Help me' plea by Bay detainee, Gulf Daily NewsGulf Daily NewsThe Gulf Daily News is an English-language newspaper published in the Kingdom of Bahrain by Al Hilal Group. It is distributed locally in Bahrain. It is owned by the Al Hilal Group, which publishes 13 other newspapers and magazines, including the local Arabic newspaper Akhbar Al Khaleej. The paper,...
, September 5, 2005 - Free my son plea by dying Bahraini father, Gulf Daily NewsGulf Daily NewsThe Gulf Daily News is an English-language newspaper published in the Kingdom of Bahrain by Al Hilal Group. It is distributed locally in Bahrain. It is owned by the Al Hilal Group, which publishes 13 other newspapers and magazines, including the local Arabic newspaper Akhbar Al Khaleej. The paper,...
, September 17, 2005 - Lawyer Reveals Causes for Guantanamo Hunger Strike, Al JazeeraAl JazeeraAl Jazeera is an independent broadcaster owned by the state of Qatar through the Qatar Media Corporation and headquartered in Doha, Qatar...
, September 22, 2005 - Bahrain 'probing strike reports', Gulf Daily NewsGulf Daily NewsThe Gulf Daily News is an English-language newspaper published in the Kingdom of Bahrain by Al Hilal Group. It is distributed locally in Bahrain. It is owned by the Al Hilal Group, which publishes 13 other newspapers and magazines, including the local Arabic newspaper Akhbar Al Khaleej. The paper,...
, October 7, 2005 - Family of Suicidal Guantanamo Detainee Plead for his Healthy Return Commondreams.org News Center, November 7, 2005
- Al Dossary 'still being grilled at Guantanamo', Gulf Daily NewsGulf Daily NewsThe Gulf Daily News is an English-language newspaper published in the Kingdom of Bahrain by Al Hilal Group. It is distributed locally in Bahrain. It is owned by the Al Hilal Group, which publishes 13 other newspapers and magazines, including the local Arabic newspaper Akhbar Al Khaleej. The paper,...
, November 8, 2005 - Days of Adverse Hardship in US Detention Camps - Testimony of Guantanamo Detainee Jumah Al-Dossari, Amnesty InternationalAmnesty InternationalAmnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...
, December 16, 2005 - Suicidal Guantanamo Inmate Moved Out of Isolation, Washington Post, December 17, 2005
- Early release unlikely for Guantanamo detainee, Gulf News, February 22, 2006
- A voice from Gitmo's darkness, Los Angeles Times Op-Ed, January 11, 2007
- http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1185