ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>BLUEPRINT - Letter from Guantánamo &#1575;&#1604;&#1585;&#1587;&#1575;&#1604;&#1577; &#1605;&#1606; &#1594;&#1608;&#1575;&#1606;&#1578;&#1575;&#1606;&#1575;&#1605;&#1608;</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="description" content="'D3,F 'D#EJ1CJ AJ :H'F*'F'EH H 'D90'("> <meta name="keywords" content=":H'F*'F'EH"> <STYLE TYPE="text/css"> H1 {font-family : sans-serif; color: red} H2 {font-family : sans-serif; color: red} H3 {font-family : sans-serif; color: yellow} H4 {font-family : sans-serif; color: orange} H5 {font-family : sans-serif; color: orange} </STYLE> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> <!-- /* Definition der Bildnamen und Preload */ if (document.images != null) { ohneMaus = new Image(152,110); ohneMaus.src = "sammy.jpg"; mitMaus = new Image(152,110); mitMaus.src = "times.jpg"; } /* Funktion */ function wechsleBild(bild,ziel) { if (document.images != null) { document.images[ziel].src = eval(bild +".src") return true; } } //--> </SCRIPT> </head> <body bgcolor=black text=yellow> <table width=100% border=1 cellpadding=10 bgcolor=darkgreen> <tr><td colspan=2> <h4><font color=yellow>BLUEPRINT newsblog - related entries 2007-2008</font></h4> </td></tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://blueprinteditor.blogspot.com/2008/07/obama-on-iraq.html" target="_base"><font color=yellow>July 16, 2008</font></a> <font color=yellow>: Guantánamo video revealing torture of youth</font> </td> <td> <a href="http://blueprinteditor.blogspot.com/2007/10/cleaning-up-mess.html" target="_top"><font color=yellow>October 15, 2007</font></a> <font color=yellow>: Jimmy Carter revealing torture practice in Guantánamo</font> </td> </tr> </table> <pre> <img src="samifree.jpg" align=right border=0 hspace=150> Latest news on Sami Al-Hadj (May 2, 2008): Free at last, Sami Al-Hadjj is being treated in a hospital where he has met with his wife and his son. AL-JAZEERA said he hits out at his U.S. captors who held him in custody for six years without charge.</pre> <CENTER><H3><font color=yellow>&#1608;&#1589;&#1608;&#1604; &#1587;&#1575;&#1605;&#1610; &#1575;&#1604;&#1581;&#1575;&#1580; &#1604;&#1604;&#1582;&#1585;&#1591;&#1608;&#1605; &#1575;&#1604;&#1610;&#1608;&#1605; </font></H3></CENTER> <BR><BR><BR> <table> <tr> <td> <center> <BR> <H1>Letter from Guantánamo<BR> <BR> <font color=yellow> &#1575;&#1604;&#1585;&#1587;&#1575;&#1604;&#1577; &#1605;&#1606; &#1594;&#1608;&#1575;&#1606;&#1578;&#1575;&#1606;&#1575;&#1605;&#1608; </font><font size=-2>Update: October 2007</font> </H1> <BR> <!-- <img src="sammy.jpg" align=center width=330 hspace=70 border=0> --> <A HREF="" onMouseOver="wechsleBild('mitMaus','ohneMaus')" onMouseOut="wechsleBild('ohneMaus','ohneMaus')"> <img src="sammy.jpg" hspace=50 vspace=0 alt="" border=0 align=center NAME="ohneMaus"> </A> </td> <td> <center> <a href="http://www.blueprint-magazine.de" target="_top"><img border=0 alt="" src="guantan.jpg" align=center hspace=100></a> <BR><BR> <BR><BR> <H3> Why am I being punished ? <H2><font color=yellow> DE'0' #9'B(  </font></H2> </H3> Sami Al-Hadjj, cameraman of Al-Jazeera TV in his letter to a British <BR> friend after four years in U.S. custody without being officially charged.<BR> [ Al-Jazeera, Dec. 17, 2005 ]<BR> <BR> </center> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <BR><BR> The following text has been taken from the Arabic website of Al-Jazeera TV, <BR> Qatar, and translated by Wolfgang Wiesner, editor of BLUEPRINT magazine.<BR> <BR><BR> "In his letter, Sami Al-Hadjj questions himself about the reasons of his <BR> arrest [or: deportation] and the reasons of different kinds of punishment <BR> which he and his comrades there [in Guantánamo] cannot accept. Further-<BR> more, he reveals other kinds of torture that he had observed in those U.S. <BR> concentration camps he had been transported to since his arrest, i.e. since <BR> the end of 2001. From the beginning in Bagram [military air] base, followed <BR> by Kandahar prison [both situated in Afghanistan] and finally Guantánamo <BR> prison, the U.S. administrators have always tried to conceal themselves <BR> from him."<BR> <BR><BR> </td> <td> <center> <BR><BR> <BR>HAJ 13'D*G J*3'!D 3'EJ 'D-', 9F 3(( '9*B'DG  H9F #3('( 'D9BH('* <BR> 'D*J J*916 DG' GH H2ED'&G 'DE9*BDJF GF'C  HJC4A 5FHA' #.1I EF <BR> 'D*90J( 'D0J 4'G/G AJ 'DE9*BD'* 'D#EJ1CJ) 'D*J FBD %DJG' (9/ '9*B'DG #H'.1 <BR> 9'E 2001  (/!' EF B'9/) (:1'E E1H1' (3,F BF/G'1 H'F*G'! (3,F <BR> :H'F*'F'EH H'F*G'C'*G 'D*J **3*1 9DJG' 'D%/'1) 'D#EJ1CJ) <BR><BR> </center> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <center> <BR><BR> DE'0' #9'B(! GD 'D0H/ H'D/A'9 9F 'D/JF ,1JE) J9'B( 9DJG' 'D3,JF HGD<BR> E7'D(*F' (%1,'9 'DE5'-A DD%/'1) 'D#EJ1CJ) -*I D' *G'F #E'E #9JFF' ,1JE) <BR> <BR><BR><BR> </center> </td> <td> "Why am I being punished ?! Could it be our defense or the defense of <BR> religion that make up a crime for which the prisoner has to be punished ? <BR> And could our demand for the return of Coran copies and for an end <BR> to humiliation in front of our eyes make up such a crime for the U.S. <BR> administration ?! "<BR> <BR> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <center> <BR> DE'0' #F' GF' GD 0G'(J %DI #A:'F3*'F E/) D' **,'H2 #1(9) #3'(J9 H-EDJ <BR> DC'EJ1' 'D,2J1) %+1 'D-1( 'D%1G'(J) 6/ 'D49( 'D#A:'FJ 'D#92D ,1JE) <BR> #9'B( 9DJG' ('D3,F E/) *2J/ 9F #1(9 3FH'* </center> </td> <td> <BR> "Why am I here ? Going to Afghanistan for a time not longer than <BR> four weeks and carrying with me the camera of Al-Jazeera in order <BR> to track the war of terrorism, a war that had been directed against <BR> the defenseless people of Afghanistan; - was that a crime and the <BR> reason why I deserved imprisonment for a duration that is now <BR> exceeding four years ?"<BR> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <center> <BR><BR><BR><BR> <H4> <font size=-1 color=aqua> AL-JAZEERA (Oct. 19, 2006) citing the NEW YORK TIMES:<BR> "Nicholas Kristoff, a U.S. journalist writing for the paper<BR> New York Times, expressed his conviction that there are<BR> no solid indications proving that Al-Jazeera's cameraman<BR> Sami Al-Hadjj had committed any crime whatsoever,<BR> with the exception of that one working for Al-Jazeera,<BR> most-hated TV station to U.S. president George Bush."<BR> <BR> AL-JAZEERA (<a href="http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/64661B80-23DA-4D45-97B7-25C47392C387.htm" target="_base"><font color=yellow>Oct. 24, 2007</font></a>) reporting that one million<BR> signatures have been collected on a list demanding<BR> the liberation of Sami Al-Hadjj from U.S. custody.<BR> <font size=-2 color=yellow>News on torture of Guantánamo detainees are available further down !</font> </font> </H4> </center> </td> <td> <BR><BR><BR> <font color=aqua> B'D 'DC'*( 'D#EJ1CJ FJCHD'3 C1J3*HA AJ 5-JA) FJHJH1C *'JE2<BR> %FG D' *H,/ #J #/D) EDEH3) 9DI #F 'DE5H1 'D5-AJ AJ BF') 'D,2J1) <BR>3'EJ 'D-', '1*C( #J ,1E ('3*+F'! #FG 5-AJ J9ED AJ BF') *DA2JHFJ) <BR>JC1GG' 'D1&J3 'D#EJ1CJ ,H1, (H4 </font> <BR><BR> <BR><BR> <font color=aqua>...... &#1573;&#1603;&#1605;&#1575;&#1604; &#1581;&#1605;&#1604;&#1577; &#1575;&#1604;&#1605;&#1604;&#1610;&#1608;&#1606; &#1578;&#1608;&#1602;&#1610;&#1593; &#1604;&#1604;&#1573;&#1601;&#1585;&#1575;&#1580; &#1593;&#1606; &#1587;&#1575;&#1605;&#1610; &#1575;&#1604;&#1581;&#1575;&#1580; ......<font color=yellow>2007</font><BR> <BR> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <center> <H3> <img src="hiding.jpg" width=200 border=0><BR> 'DB1"F<BR><BR> but Allah knows best<BR> what they are hiding </H3> (cited from the Coran)<BR> <BR><BR> A similar case, the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/international/europe/21germany.html?_r=1&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=all" target="_base"><font color=aqua>seizure of the German citizen Al-Masri</font></a>,<BR> is still being discussed in Germany. Read the latest report <BR> published by the New York Times. <H3>'DE@-@(@H3 'D#D@E@'FJ AJ #A:@'F3*@'F H<BR> 3$'DG (3'&D #DE'FJ AJ 3,F 'D#EJ1CJ</H3> A report on <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=9056" target="_base"><font color=aqua>juveniles held at Guantánamo</font></a> can be found here. <BR> It has been published on the English website of Al-Jazeera. <H3>'D,2J1) F* : 'DJA9) AJ :H'F*'F'EH H 90'(GE</H3> </center> </td> <td> <center> <BR><BR> <img src="guantan2.jpg" border=0><BR> <BR> <font color=yellow> Cartoon found in the Arabic daily AL-ARAB (London, 15/2/02).<BR> Title:<BR> An Islamic world and the Taliban prisoners, held<BR> back on Guantánamo base ..... what will happen ?<BR> <BR> The reader of a newspaper dealing with that subject and who <BR> is bearing a strong resemblance with the Egyptien president <BR> Mubarak is asking Uncle Sam [wearing a devilish goatee]:<BR> "Only to think of that group in Guantánamo. How will things develop ?"<BR> Uncle Sam: "Nothing will change. No cloud in sight under a blue sky."<BR> </font> <BR><BR> </center> </td> </tr> </table> <center> <table border=2 bordercolor=yellow cellpadding=15> <tr> <td> <font color=aqua> <P><FONT FACE="Tahoma" color=aqua><SPAN LANG="ar-EG">&#1602;&#1575;&#1604; &#1576;&#1606; &#1604;&#1575;&#1583;&#1606; &#1573;&#1606;&#1607; &#1605;&#1606; &#1576;&#1610;&#1606; &#1605;&#1574;&#1575;&#1578; &#1575;&#1604;&#1571;&#1588;&#1582;&#1575;&#1589; &#1575;&#1604;&#1605;&#1593;&#1578;&#1602;&#1604;&#1610;&#1606; &#1581;&#1575;&#1604;&#1610;&#1575; &#1601;&#1610; &#1587;&#1580;&#1606; &#1594;&#1608;&#1575;&#1606;&#1578;&#1575;&#1606;&#1575;&#1605;&#1608; &#1604;&#1604;&#1575;&#1588;&#1578;&#1576;&#1575;&#1607; &#1601;&#1610; &#1575;&#1606; &#1604;&#1607;&#1605;</SPAN></FONT></P> <P> <FONT FACE="Tahoma" color=aqua><SPAN LANG="ar-EG">&#1589;&#1604;&#1575;&#1578; &#1576;&#1607;&#1580;&#1605;&#1575;&#1578; </SPAN></FONT>11 <FONT FACE="Tahoma" color=aqua><SPAN LANG="ar-EG">&#1587;&#1576;&#1578;&#1605;&#1576;&#1585;</SPAN></FONT>, <FONT FACE="Tahoma" color=aqua><SPAN LANG="ar-EG">&#1601;&#1573;&#1606; &#1575;&#1579;&#1606;&#1610;&#1606; &#1601;&#1602;&#1591; &#1603;&#1575;&#1606;&#1575; &#1593;&#1604;&#1609; &#1593;&#1604;&#1605; &#1576;&#1578;&#1604;&#1603; &#1575;&#1604;&#1607;&#1580;&#1605;&#1575;&#1578; &#1604;&#1603;&#1606;&#1607; &#1604;&#1605; &#1610;&#1584;&#1603;&#1585; &#1575;&#1587;&#1605;&#1610;&#1607;&#1605;&#1575; </SPAN></FONT></P> And Bin Laden said that among hundreds of captives, now held in Guantanamo prison and suspected <BR> of being related to the September 11 attacks, only two had some knowledge of those attacks but he <BR> was still unable to remember their names.<BR> <BR> ( Cited from a sound record, ascribed to Bin Laden and published by AL-JAZEERA 24/05/2006 )<BR> </font> </td> </tr> </table> <BR><BR> <table border=2 bordercolor=yellow cellpadding=15> <tr> <td> <BR> <H4><font size=-1>AL-JAZEERA headline 11/06/2006:</font> &#1575;&#1604;&#1576;&#1606;&#1578;&#1575;&#1594;&#1608;&#1606; &#1610;&#1572;&#1603;&#1583; <a href="http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F32E4C60-2EE2-466C-BEA7-8B17848B9332.htm" target="_base"><font color=aqua>&#1575;&#1606;&#1578;&#1581;&#1575;&#1585; &#1579;&#1604;&#1575;&#1579;&#1577;</font></a> &#1576;&#1594;&#1608;&#1575;&#1606;&#1578;&#1575;&#1606;&#1575;&#1605;&#1608; &#1608;&#1576;&#1608;&#1588; &#1610;&#1593;&#1585;&#1576; &#1593;&#1606; &#1575;&#1604;&#1602;&#1604;&#1602;<BR> <font size=-1>Pentagon confirms the <font color=aqua>suicide of three</font> Guantanamo inmates while Bush seems worried.</font><BR> <BR> &#1575;&#1604;&#1580;&#1610;&#1588; &#1575;&#1604;&#1571;&#1605;&#1585;&#1610;&#1603;&#1610;: &#1575;&#1604;&#1575;&#1606;&#1578;&#1581;&#1575;&#1585; &#1601;&#1610; &#1580;&#1608;&#1575;&#1606;&#1578;&#1575;&#1606;&#1575;&#1605;&#1608; <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/arabic/world_news/newsid_5068000/5068758.stm" target="_base"><font color=aqua>&quot;&#1593;&#1605;&#1604; &#1602;&#1578;&#1575;&#1604;&#1610;&quot;</font></a>... &#1608;&#1602;&#1575;&#1604; &#1602;&#1575;&#1574;&#1583; &#1605;&#1593;&#1587;&#1603;&#1585; &#1580;&#1608;&#1575;&#1606;&#1578;&#1575;&#1606;&#1575;&#1605;&#1608; &#1575;&#1604;&#1571;&#1583;&#1605;&#1610;&#1585;&#1575;&#1604; &#1607;&#1575;&#1585;&#1610; &#1607;&#1575;&#1585;&#1610;&#1587;<BR> &#1573;&#1606; &#1575;&#1604;&#1605;&#1593;&#1578;&#1602;&#1604;&#1610;&#1606; &#1575;&#1604;&#1579;&#1604;&#1575;&#1579;&#1577;&#1548; &#1608;&#1607;&#1605; &#1610;&#1605;&#1606;&#1610; &#1608;&#1587;&#1593;&#1608;&#1583;&#1610;&#1575;&#1606;&#1548; &#1588;&#1606;&#1602;&#1608;&#1575; &#1571;&#1606;&#1601;&#1587;&#1607;&#1605; &#1576;&#1575;&#1587;&#1578;&#1582;&#1583;&#1575;&#1605; &#1605;&#1604;&#1575;&#1576;&#1587; &#1608;&#1571;&#1594;&#1591;&#1610;&#1577; &#1575;&#1604;&#1601;&#1585;&#1575;&#1588; <font size=-1>- BBC 11/06/2006<BR> U.S. Military: Suicides of Guantanamo should be seen as a <font color=aqua> fighting operation"</font>...The director <BR> of Guantanamo camp, Admiral Harry Harris, informed that three prisoners, a Jemenite and <BR> two Saudis, hung themselves with the help of clothes and bedclothes.<BR> </font> <font color=aqua> <font size=-1>[ In a more recent version of the same BBC article, " fighting operation</font> &#1593;&#1605;&#1604; &#1602;&#1578;&#1575;&#1604;&#1610;<font size=-1> " has been <BR> replaced by " PR operation</font> &#1593;&#1605;&#1604; &#1583;&#1593;&#1575;&#1574;&#1610; <font size=-1>". W.W. ]</font> </font> </H4> </td> </tr> </table> <BR><BR> <table cellspacing=20> <tr> <td> <img src="171006.jpg" align=center border=0> </td> <td> <pre> Ali Shah Moussaoui, a doctor from Afghanistan and former Guantánamo detainee, after his release and surrounded by his family and friends, granting an interview to Al-Jazeera TV (Oct. 17, 2006). By the way, a similar case has been observed in Germany, where Mourad Kurnaz, a German citizen of Turkish extraction, had been held in Guantánamo for some years, even though U.S. and German au- thorities seemed to be convinced of his innocence at a very early date. Furthermore, Kurnaz claimed that German special troops KSK lent a hand in his torturing. A parliamentary investigation is now under way. BLUEPRINT (Oct. 19, 2006) based on German sources. </pre> </td> </tr> </table> <table border=2 bordercolor=yellow cellpadding=15> <tr> <td> <center> <font color=yellow> <H3><font color=aqua> &#1575;&#1604;&#1585;&#1574;&#1610;&#1587; &#1576;&#1608;&#1588; &#1608; &#1578;&#1581;&#1583;&#1610;&#1583;&#1607; &#1575;&#1604;&#1581;&#1602;&#1608;&#1602; &#1575;&#1604;&#1573;&#1606;&#1587;&#1575;&#1606; &#1575;&#1604;&#1617;&#1584;&#1610; &#1610;&#1602;&#1576;&#1604; &#1575;&#1604;&#1578;&#1593;&#1584;&#1610;&#1576; </font></H3> <strong>Highlights of Jimmy Carter's statement :</strong><BR> </center> <BR> President Bush makes up his own definition of human rights.<BR> <BR> U.S. said : Geneva Conventions do not apply to Guantánamo<BR> detainees.<BR> <BR> Presidential candidates of the Republican Party in rush to go to<BR> war with Iran.<BR> <BR> Democratic Senators Clinton and Obama criticized for refusing<BR> to set Iraq pullout date.<BR> </font> </td> <td> <center> <font color=yellow> Breaking News on October 10, 2007 <H3><font color=aqua>Former President Carter :<BR>" U.S. tortures prisoners "</font></H3> <img src="carter.jpg" border=0><br> <br> In an <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/10/carter.torture/index.html" target="_base"><font color=aqua>interview with CNN</font></a> the<BR> 2002 Nobel Prize laureate said<BR> <font color=aqua>"I don't think it. - I know it." (*)</font> </font> </center> </td> </tr> <th colspan=2> <font size=-1 color=aqua> (*) BLUEPRINT background information:<BR> As any former U.S. president, Jimmy Carter is entitled to receive the same daily security briefing as<BR> the active president which is now George Bush junior. Indeed, only a few former presidents made use<BR> of that right, among them George Bush senior who is still playing a decisive role in the weaponry bu-<BR> siness as represented by the Carlyle Group and where he is known to be an influential figure. Seen in<BR> the light of a N.Y. Times article that disclosed the existence of secret Justice Department documents<BR> favoring "harsh interrogation techniques", Carter's reliability thus becomes unquestionable. - W.W.<BR> </font> </th> </table> <BR><BR> On Kuwaiti detainees in Guantanamo: <a href="http://www.kuwaitifreedom.org/" target="_"><font color=aqua>www.kuwaitifreedom.org</font></a> <BR><BR><BR> <a href="http://www.cageprisoners.com/page.php?id=10" target="_base"><H3><font color=aqua>&#1571;&#1587;&#1605;&#1575;&#1569; &#1575;&#1604;&#1605;&#1587;&#1575;&#1580;&#1610;&#1606; &#1601;&#1610; &#1594;&#1608;&#1575;&#1606;&#1578;&#1575;&#1606;&#1575;&#1605;&#1608; ..... the most comprehensive detainee list on the web</font></H3></a> Please note: This detainee list has been assembled independently and does not consequently correspond to another name list<BR> that has been released by U.S. authorities, in the frame of a lawsuit induced by American Press Agency (AP) in March 2006.<BR> Wolfgang Wiesner<BR> </center> <BR><BR> </body> </html>