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Al-Hajj was never prosecuted at Guantanamo so the US did not make public its full allegations against him. But in a hearing that determined that he was an enemy combatant, US officials alleged that in the 1990s, al-Hajj was an executive assistant at a Qatar-based beverage company that provided support to Muslim fighters in Bosnia and Chechnya. The US claimed he also travelled to Azerbaijan at least eight times to carry money on behalf of his employer to the al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, a now defunct charity that US authorities say funded armed groups. The US also clamed he met Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, allegedly a senior lieutenant to Osama bin Laden who was arrested in Germany in 1998 and extradited to the United States.
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Al Jazeera had been campaigning for al-Hajj's
release since his capture in 2001 [EPA] |
Upon his release Al Hajj has said:
'Dignity violated'
"I'm very happy to be in Sudan, but I'm very sad because of the situation of our brothers who remain in Guantanamo. Conditions in Guantanamo are very, very bad and they get worse by the day," he said from his hospital bed.
"Our human condition, our human dignity was violated, and the American administration went beyond all human values, all moral values, all religious values.
"In Guantanamo ... rats are treated with more humanity. But we have people from more than 50 countries that are completely deprived of all rights and privileges.
"And they will not give them the rights that they give animals," he said.
Al-Hajj complained that "for more than seven years, [inmates] did not get a chance to be brought before a civil court to defend their just case" Sami al-Hajj hits out at US captors
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Al-Jazeera cameraman home from Guantanamo Bay CNN
Al Jazeera cameraman Sami Al-Hajj released Journalism.co.uk
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