Sami Mohy El Din Muhammed Al Hajj is a Sudanese journalist and a cameraman for Al-Jazeera. In December 2001 he was arrested on a work trip in Pakistan and then held prisoner in Guantanamo for years. He was finally released without any charges on May 1 2008.
During the whole ordeal Al Hajj had no idea what he was being suspected of. The charges thrown at him in interrogation situations changed from day to day. He was not able to prove his innocence since his interrogators would not let him defend himself. He was tortured, force fed, sexually assaulted. His son, who was just a baby when he was captured, spent his early childhood without his father.
Al Hajj reported that during 125 of his 130 interrogations, he was questioned as to whether Al Jazeera was a front for al-Qaeda. He was the only journalist held in Guantanamo Bay.
This is Sami al-Hajj’s son Muhammad holding a picture of a father he did not remember and only met again last May.
I wonder what kind of atrocities we will find out once president Obama gets around to closing Guantanamo Bay. I can imagine that some in the previous administration are busy busy busy covering their tracks right now.
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