WikiLeaks uncovers Canadian detainee mystery

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Source: CBC News

U.S. diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks have exposed a troubling case of a mentally ill Canadian-Egyptian held in a U.S.-run Afghanistan prison for more than 18 months.

Khaled Samy Abdallah Ismail, an Egyptian-born engineer, was captured in April 2006 and held at the Bagram Theater Internment Facility where he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, the cables say.

The American military held Ismail at Bagram — a prison dubbed the "other Guantanamo" — until at least October 2007 and often relegated him to segregation despite "largely circumstantial" evidence against him, while they debated whether to send him to Egypt or Canada. Ismail is the only known Canadian to be held in Bagram for that length of time.

Canadian consular officials paid their first visit to the dual citizen eight months after his capture, but another nine months passed before Canada suddenly refocused on the case and hatched a plan to bring him to Ontario, according to the cables from March and October of 2007.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/09/21/wikileaks-canadian-detainee-ismail.html

[Citizen Worker]

1. Remember, "they" hate us for our freedoms. That's what president Cheney told his lap dog GWB to say

[Historic NY]

2. What took Canada so long?..Where is the guy now?