WikiLeaks revelations about Al-Jazeera cameraman's detention in Guantanamo

A leaked US defence department cable released yesterday by WikiLeaks reveals that part of the US government's motive for holding Sudanese cameraman Sami Al-Haj for six years at its Guantanamo Bay prison camp was the information he could provide about his employer, the Qatar-based satellite TV station Al-Jazeera. Arrested by Pakistani security forces on the Afghan-Pakistani border in December 2001, Al-Haj was handed over to the US military a month later and was transferred to Guantanamo Bay (...)

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