Jamal Udeen Al-Harith
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Jamal Udeen Al-Harith is a British citizen who was held in extrajudicial detention as a suspected terrorist in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] Al-Harith's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 490. The Department of Defense reports he was born on November 20, 1966, in Manchester, United Kingdom.
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, while under the Red Cross in a compound after being released from jail where he was a prisoner under the Taliban. He told them that he would be allowed to fly home soon. The Red Cross had arranged with the British embassy to fly him out from the American Airbase to Kabul to meet the British representative but he wasn't allowed to go free. The Americans prevented him from flying out because they were suspicious. Al-Harith spent the next two and a half years in Cuba.
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- Five of nine Britons released from Guantanamo Bay, BBC, March 9, 2004
- 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
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