US court frees Guantanamo prisoner | Al Jazeera English
Posted by Faiz on June 23rd, 2009
“Abd Al Rahim Abdul Rassak is a Syrian national who was tortured by al-Qaeda who suspected him of being a Western spy. He was held in an Afghan prison controlled by the Taliban for 18 months before being captured by American forces in 2002 [and sent to Guantanamo]. … the government and the US media initially mistook Rassak as one of a number of would-be suicide bombers based on videotapes captured at an al-Qaeda safe house. But further investigations showed that the tapes actually showed al-Qaeda members torturing him.”
Abdul Rassak was captured by the Americans while rotting away in an Afghan prison, after which he was sent to Guantanamo to be tortured again; the United States’ penchant for malevolence is boundless.
