Why is my dad far away in that place called Guantanamo Bay?
Independent [UK]
01/08/07
Ten-year-old Anas el-Banna will walk to the door of Number 10 Downing Street this week to ask for an answer to the question he has been trying to have answered for four years: Why can't my Dad come home? His father, Jamil, is one of eight British residents languishing among the almost 400 inmates at the American base at Guantanamo Bay, which opened five years ago to the day this Thursday -- the day of Anas's protest. Mr Banna, was taken to Guantanamo Bay four years ago after being seized in Gambia along with fellow detainee Bisher al-Rawi. He was accused of having a suspicious device in his luggage. It turned out to be a battery charger. No charges have been made. He suffers from severe diabetes, but his lawyers say he has not been offered medication and has been denied the food he needs. His eyesight is now failing. A year ago, his son wrote to Tony Blair for the second time to ask why the Government was not helping him return home. The then six-year-old did not even receive a reply. The second letter elicited a cursory note from the Foreign Office. It stated that because Mr Banna is not a British citizen, although his wife and children are, nothing could be done for him...
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2137687.ece
Guantanamo ex-detainee: “Nightmare” over
Longview Daily News
04/01/07
A British resident released from Guantanamo Bay after nearly five years in captivity said Sunday his detention at the U.S. prison camp was ‘profoundly difficult’ to endure, his first comments since his release. Bisher al-Rawi, an Iraqi national, had been held at the U.S. base in Cuba since it opened in 2002, but was reunited with his family in south London this weekend...
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detention
01/08/07
Ten-year-old Anas el-Banna will walk to the door of Number 10 Downing Street this week to ask for an answer to the question he has been trying to have answered for four years: Why can't my Dad come home? His father, Jamil, is one of eight British residents languishing among the almost 400 inmates at the American base at Guantanamo Bay, which opened five years ago to the day this Thursday -- the day of Anas's protest. Mr Banna, was taken to Guantanamo Bay four years ago after being seized in Gambia along with fellow detainee Bisher al-Rawi. He was accused of having a suspicious device in his luggage. It turned out to be a battery charger. No charges have been made. He suffers from severe diabetes, but his lawyers say he has not been offered medication and has been denied the food he needs. His eyesight is now failing. A year ago, his son wrote to Tony Blair for the second time to ask why the Government was not helping him return home. The then six-year-old did not even receive a reply. The second letter elicited a cursory note from the Foreign Office. It stated that because Mr Banna is not a British citizen, although his wife and children are, nothing could be done for him...
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2137687.ece
Guantanamo ex-detainee: “Nightmare” over
Longview Daily News
04/01/07
A British resident released from Guantanamo Bay after nearly five years in captivity said Sunday his detention at the U.S. prison camp was ‘profoundly difficult’ to endure, his first comments since his release. Bisher al-Rawi, an Iraqi national, had been held at the U.S. base in Cuba since it opened in 2002, but was reunited with his family in south London this weekend...
http://tinyurl.com/27rcfl
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detention
rudkla - 9. Jan, 16:12
