Guantanamo inmate says he only fought Ethiopians

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

Guantanamo inmate says he only fought Ethiopians
By Jane Sutton
May 4, 2007

MIAMI (Reuters) - A "high value" Somali prisoner at Guantanamo denied having al Qaeda ties but said he fought Ethiopian soldiers in his homeland and had the right to do so, according to a Pentagon transcript released on Friday.

The U.S. military says Guleed Hassan Ahmed, a Somali in his early 30s, was a member of al-Ittihad al-Islami, a militant Islamist group the U.S. government classifies as a terrorist organization. The military has previously given the man's name as Gouled Hassan Dourad.

It also says he was an al Qaeda cell leader in Djibouti and was part of a group that killed Ethiopians in the Somali capital of Mogadishu in 2002.

Ahmed declined to attend an administrative hearing at the Guantanamo U.S. naval base in Cuba on April 28 to assess whether he had been properly classified as an "enemy combatant."




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[Peace Patriot]

1. The US is now the World's Self-Appointed Policeman. And a decidedly bad cop it is.

Not what Thomas Jefferson had in mind, I think.