United States holding Bin Laden bodyguard

[UpInArms]

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_14-6-2004_pg4_3

WASHINGTON: US military officials are holding a bodyguard of Al Qaeda terror leader Osama bin Laden at the naval base prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Washington Post reported Sunday, citing Defence Department memos and sources familiar with base captives.

The bodyguard is Moroccan Abdallah Tabarak, who enabled bin Laden to escape from the battle of Tora Bora in Afghanistan in late 2001 by making calls on his leader’s personal satellite telephone, according to the Post.

The information is contained in memos documenting meetings between military personnel and inspectors from the International Committee of the Red Cross.

ICRC officials, who keep their prison reports confidential, were not allowed to interview Tabarak as recently as February, the Post said. According to the memos, the ICRC officials expressed concern that US interrogators were keeping detainees in isolation holds for up to a month for refusing to give information; worried that lengthy interrogation sessions were having a “cumulative effect” on the mental health of the captives; and said the use of open-air cages instead of closed cells constituted inhumane treatment under the international laws of war. The memos say the meetings were cordial, even though an October 9, 2003 memo states that “there was no improvement in any of the four major areas of concern,” according to the Post.

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[LittleApple81]

1. So... I don't see any newsworthy item here. If he knew something

then, after 3 years he probably doesn't know much.