No end in sight to imprisonment of Al-Jazeera cameraman at Gitmo

[struggle4progress]

By BEN FOX and ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU
Associated Press Writers
February 27, 2007

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - A TV cameraman is getting an inside view of life at Guantanamo Bay prison - only he is unable to get out and tell the story.

Sami al-Hajj, of the Al-Jazeera TV network, was stopped at the Afghanistan border by Pakistani authorities in December 2001, turned over to U.S. forces and hauled in chains six months later to Guantanamo, where about 390 men are held on suspicion of links to al-Qaida or the Taliban ...

He is believed to be the only journalist from a major international news organization held at Guantanamo.

Colleagues from Al-Hajj's Qatar-based network and the Sudanese government want to know why he is being held, but the U.S. government is saying little. The military did not even publicly acknowledge holding al-Hajj until last April, when it released a list of Guantanamo detainees in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by The Associated Press ...

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17903033&BRD=1817&PAG=461&dept_id=222087&rfi=6

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. He's brown skinned and probably a Muslim

that's all the reason Bushco needs--and if some of his knuckledraggers had their way, all Muslims who didn't convert to the Jaysus Hates Gays and Liberals Fundamentalist Church should be shot on sight.

[magellan]

2. There'd be more journalists at Gitmo if Bush** had his way

And most of them would be American.

But back to poor Mr. al-Hajj, it's really hard not to feel for these guys knowing they're being held for unknown reasons, and also knowing how many have been held, tortured and then released without charge. I hope they all see justice someday soon...and that BushCo get a chance to occupy their former cells.