umm lina
2nd May 2007, 04:01 AM
:confused: :confused: A US press source reveals:
Algeria refuses to receive Algerian detainees in Guantanamo
A US press source reported that the Algerian government is dithering as for the rendition of the Algerian detainees in Guantanamo. While a detainee family exhorted the authorities to “receive him as the State is responsible for its citizens in and abroad Algeria.
Washington Post reported last Sunday that the Ambassador at-Large Clint Williamson failed to find a solution to the problem of the 24 Algerian detainees to be extradited from Guantanamo. It mentioned that Algeria is “dithering” in receiving the detainees just like other countries do such as Yemen, and relies on information from Bush administration and the defence of the detainees.
Washington Post also about a detainee Ahmed Belbacha noticed by prison administration last February about his release. It further mentions that Britain refused to receive him together with 5 Algerian detainees.
To recall, Belbacha, originated from Algiers, went to Britain in 1999 then to Pakistan in 2001, for unknown reasons. He has been arrested by the Pakistani security services in 2002 and delivered to US forces invading Afghanistan in later in 2001 after 9/11 attacks. The investigators indict him with training for arms use in Afghanistan and that he allegedly met Ben Laden.
However his family who doesn’t know his departure to Pakistan reasons and the lawyer in charge of his defence say that he has been obliged to confess the charges under torture and exhort the Algerian authorities to receive him.
The question is where should they go?
So, innocent people have been detained for years, and likely subjected to torture and other abusive treatments, and now that they have been cleared, they may have to stay in Gitmo for years because the Bush maladministration does not know what to do with them?
Algeria refuses to receive Algerian detainees in Guantanamo
A US press source reported that the Algerian government is dithering as for the rendition of the Algerian detainees in Guantanamo. While a detainee family exhorted the authorities to “receive him as the State is responsible for its citizens in and abroad Algeria.
Washington Post reported last Sunday that the Ambassador at-Large Clint Williamson failed to find a solution to the problem of the 24 Algerian detainees to be extradited from Guantanamo. It mentioned that Algeria is “dithering” in receiving the detainees just like other countries do such as Yemen, and relies on information from Bush administration and the defence of the detainees.
Washington Post also about a detainee Ahmed Belbacha noticed by prison administration last February about his release. It further mentions that Britain refused to receive him together with 5 Algerian detainees.
To recall, Belbacha, originated from Algiers, went to Britain in 1999 then to Pakistan in 2001, for unknown reasons. He has been arrested by the Pakistani security services in 2002 and delivered to US forces invading Afghanistan in later in 2001 after 9/11 attacks. The investigators indict him with training for arms use in Afghanistan and that he allegedly met Ben Laden.
However his family who doesn’t know his departure to Pakistan reasons and the lawyer in charge of his defence say that he has been obliged to confess the charges under torture and exhort the Algerian authorities to receive him.
The question is where should they go?
So, innocent people have been detained for years, and likely subjected to torture and other abusive treatments, and now that they have been cleared, they may have to stay in Gitmo for years because the Bush maladministration does not know what to do with them?