The latest information to surface from Wikileaks’ “gitmo files” shows confirms that a senior figure in the Libyan rebels’ fight against Colonel Gaddafi is a man who spent six years in Guantanamo.

A 2005 document says that Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda Bin Qumu (sweet name, brah) was identified by US investigators as a “probable member of Al Qaida and a member of the African Extremist Network” and thought to be “likely to pose a threat to the US, its interests and allies.”

He was arrested by US forces following the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and then imprisoned at Guantanamo for six years under accusations of working as a truck driver for a company owned by Osama bin Laden and as an accountant for a charity accused of terrorist links.

Seeing how flimsy the accusations against him were, I don’t believe the man was a terrorist when he was thrown into Guantanamo. But after being held there for 6 years and probably tortured countless times, I’m pretty sure he’s not feeling much warmth towards the US. In fact, he probably became what the US feared he was in the first place.

telegraph



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