User:Geo Swan/gitmo/Jamal Udeen Al-Harith

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'''Jamal Udeen Al-Harith''' is a [[United Kingdom|British]] citizen who was detained as a suspected terrorist in [[Camp Delta]] in the [[United States|American]] naval base at [[Guantanamo Bay]]. Al-Harith paid a truck driver to take him from Pakistan to Iran. The truck was stopped when he passed near the [[Afghan]] border. [[Taliban]] guards, seeing his British passport, arrested him as a British spy. His family tell of a happy phone call, when American soldiers captured the Taliban jail where he was a prisoner. But he wasn't allowed to go free. The Americans, too, were suspicious. And Al-Harith spent the next two and a half years as their guest in [[Cuba]]. ==External links== *[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3089395.stm Five of nine Britons released from Guantanamo Bay], [[BBC]], March 9, 2004 *[http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/12/1078594562511.html?from=storyrhs The most hapless tourist in the world: It's no holiday when the Taliban deem you a spy and the US labels you a terrorist], [[The Age]], March 13, 2004 [[Category:U.S. detainees|Harith]]