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.
BLUEPRINT newsblog - related entries 2007-2008 | |
| July 16, 2008 : Guantánamo video revealing torture of youth | October 15, 2007 : Jimmy Carter revealing torture practice in Guantánamo |
Letter from Guantánamo
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Why am I being punished ?
Sami Al-Hadjj, cameraman of Al-Jazeera TV in his letter to a British |
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The following text has been taken from the Arabic website of Al-Jazeera TV, Qatar, and translated by Wolfgang Wiesner, editor of BLUEPRINT magazine. "In his letter, Sami Al-Hadjj questions himself about the reasons of his arrest [or: deportation] and the reasons of different kinds of punishment which he and his comrades there [in Guantánamo] cannot accept. Further- more, he reveals other kinds of torture that he had observed in those U.S. concentration camps he had been transported to since his arrest, i.e. since the end of 2001. From the beginning in Bagram [military air] base, followed by Kandahar prison [both situated in Afghanistan] and finally Guantánamo prison, the U.S. administrators have always tried to conceal themselves from him." |
وفي رسالته يتساءل سامي الحاج عن سبب اعتقاله، وعن أسباب العقوبات التي يتعرض لها هو وزملائه المعتقلين هناك، ويكشف صنوفا أخرى من التعذيب الذي شاهده في المعتقلات الأميركية التي نقل إليها بعد اعتقاله أواخر عام 2001، بدءا من قاعدة بغرام مرورا بسجن قندهار وانتهاء بسجن غوانتانامو وانتهاكاته التي تتستر عليها الإدارة الأميركية |
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لماذا أعاقب؟! هل الذود والدفاع عن الدين جريمة يعاقب عليها السجين؟ وهل مطالبتنا بإرجاع المصاحف للإدارة الأميركية حتى لا تهان أمام أعيننا جريمة؟ |
"Why am I being punished ?! Could it be our defense or the defense of religion that make up a crime for which the prisoner has to be punished ? And could our demand for the return of Coran copies and for an end to humiliation in front of our eyes make up such a crime for the U.S. administration ?! " |
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لماذا أنا هنا؟ هل ذهابي إلى أفغانستان مدة لا تتجاوز أربعة أسابيع وحملي لكاميرا الجزيرة إثر الحرب الإرهابية ضد الشعب الأفغاني الأعزل جريمة أعاقب عليها بالسجن مدة تزيد عن أربع سنوات؟ |
"Why am I here ? Going to Afghanistan for a time not longer than four weeks and carrying with me the camera of Al-Jazeera in order to track the war of terrorism, a war that had been directed against the defenseless people of Afghanistan; - was that a crime and the reason why I deserved imprisonment for a duration that is now exceeding four years ?" |
AL-JAZEERA (Oct. 19, 2006) citing the NEW YORK TIMES:
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قال الكاتب الأميركي نيكولاس كريستوف في صحيفة نيويورك تايمز إنه لا توجد أي أدلة ملموسة على أن المصور الصحفي في قناة الجزيرة سامي الحاج ارتكب أي جرم باستثناء أنه صحفي يعمل في قناة تلفزيونية يكرهها الرئيس الأميركي جورج بوش ...... إكمال حملة المليون توقيع للإفراج عن سامي الحاج ......2007 |
(cited from the Coran) |
 Cartoon found in the Arabic daily AL-ARAB (London, 15/2/02). Title: An Islamic world and the Taliban prisoners, held back on Guantánamo base ..... what will happen ? The reader of a newspaper dealing with that subject and who is bearing a strong resemblance with the Egyptien president Mubarak is asking Uncle Sam [wearing a devilish goatee]: "Only to think of that group in Guantánamo. How will things develop ?" Uncle Sam: "Nothing will change. No cloud in sight under a blue sky." |
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قال بن لادن إنه من بين مئات الأشخاص المعتقلين حاليا في سجن غوانتانامو للاشتباه في ان لهم صلات بهجمات 11 سبتمبر, فإن اثنين فقط كانا على علم بتلك الهجمات لكنه لم يذكر اسميهما And Bin Laden said that among hundreds of captives, now held in Guantanamo prison and suspectedof being related to the September 11 attacks, only two had some knowledge of those attacks but he was still unable to remember their names. ( Cited from a sound record, ascribed to Bin Laden and published by AL-JAZEERA 24/05/2006 ) |
AL-JAZEERA headline 11/06/2006: البنتاغون
يؤكد انتحار
ثلاثة بغوانتانامو
وبوش يعرب عن
القلق
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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. |
الرئيس بوش و تحديده الحقوق الإنسان الّذي يقبل التعذيبHighlights of Jimmy Carter's statement :President Bush makes up his own definition of human rights. U.S. said : Geneva Conventions do not apply to Guantánamo detainees. Presidential candidates of the Republican Party in rush to go to war with Iran. Democratic Senators Clinton and Obama criticized for refusing to set Iraq pullout date. |
Former President Carter :
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(*) BLUEPRINT background information: As any former U.S. president, Jimmy Carter is entitled to receive the same daily security briefing as the active president which is now George Bush junior. Indeed, only a few former presidents made use of that right, among them George Bush senior who is still playing a decisive role in the weaponry bu- siness as represented by the Carlyle Group and where he is known to be an influential figure. Seen in the light of a N.Y. Times article that disclosed the existence of secret Justice Department documents favoring "harsh interrogation techniques", Carter's reliability thus becomes unquestionable. - W.W. |
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