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• Feroz Ali Abbasi, the British detainee who submitted written complaints that military police had sex in front of him while he was trying to pray, tried repeatedly in his "enemy combatant" hearing to explain why he should be considered a prisoner of war and thus entitled to better treatment. But an Air Force colonel, whose identity remains blacked out, would have none of it. "Mr. Abbasi your conduct is unacceptable and this is your absolute final warning. I do not care about international law. I do not want to hear the words international law again. We are not concerned about international law," the colonel insisted before having Abbasi removed from the hearing so that the military could consider classified evidence against him. Abbasi was freed in January 2005.
_Saifullah A. Paracha, a multimillionaire businessman from Karachi, Pakistan, was arrested on arrival in Thailand in July 2003, held in isolation for 14 months in Afghanistan and then sent to Guantanamo. A computer science graduate of the New York Institute of Technology, he acknowledged meeting Osama bin Laden twice, but denied all high-level accusations against him, which include making investments for al-Qaida members, translating statements from bin Laden into Urdu, plotting to smuggle explosives into the U.S. and recommending using nuclear weapons against U.S. soldiers. Told that he would eventually be given a chance to pursue his case in U.S. courts, he asks: "I've been here 17 months — would that be before I expire?" He is told: "I would certainly hope so, especially since you are under the care of the U.S. government."
_Abdul Gappher, an ethnic Uighur from western China, was accused of traveling to Afghanistan to join the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. Gappher denied that, saying he was in Afghanistan to "get some training to fight back against the Chinese government," and had nothing against the United States. He testified that his own "people and my own family are being tortured under the Chinese government." He was captured in Pakistan, where he said the police "sold us to the U.S. government."
_Mohammed Sharif, a native of Sherberghan, Afghanistan, was accused of serving as a guard at a Taliban camp. He denied being a guard, and said he had been captured by the Taliban and put to work. He said he feared punishment and retribution against his family if he fled. Sharif denied any knowledge of al-Qaida and asked the tribunal repeatedly to produce the (classified) evidence against him, so that he might respond. "What could you have possibly done, that we might discover some of those facts?" Sharif is asked. "That's my point," he responds. "There are no facts. ... This is ridiculous. I know for a fact there is no proof."
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