Posted on 03/02/2015 2:50:45 PM PST by keat
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) -- Every day during the 12 1/2 years he was imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay as a suspected al-Qaida operative, Adel bin Muhammad El Ouerghi dreamed of freedom.
But since his release along with five other detainees in December, the 50-year-old Tunisian has struggled to cope with freedom as he never dreamed. Resettled in a foreign land, surrounded by a language he doesn't understand, he finds the challenges of everyday life to be daunting.
"In Guantanamo, we only thought about leaving," El Ouerghi said in rapid-fire Arabic. "Here we have to think about food, clothes, all kinds of things."
El Ouerghi and 34-year old Omar Abdelahdi Faraj of Syria spoke with The Associated Press at the four-bedroom, one-bathroom house they share with the other former detainees in a middle-class neighborhood of Montevideo - the first such interviews since their release. They declined to talk about their time at Guantanamo or to provide details about how they ended up there, citing reasons that ranged from fear of reprisal to a desire to leave the past behind.
The six men - four Syrians, a Palestinian and a Tunisian - all were detained in 2002 for suspected ties to al-Qaida. Leaked U.S. military documents describe hardened militants.
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This is a LIE:
They have been offered jobs NUMEROUS times and they REFUSE to work.
MORE:
They have been REPEATEDLY interviewed down there, almost non-stop.
LAZY AND DISHONEST AS HELL.
They’re too good to do the work they’ve been offered, living on welfare.
Better to have put a bullet into him than have him in Uruguay.
Are these the guys that refuse to Work ,LOL
They have been offered jobs NUMEROUS times and they REFUSE to work.
LAZY AND DISHONEST AS HELL.
Sounds like they have become democrats.
Wouldn’t the humane thing be to put them out of their misery?
Yeah, it’s tough when you leave Islam for another religion! Didn’t he curse Mohamed or something???
Where does he live?
I heard they let him go because he gave us so much good intel on his buddies.
The story I got was that these six guys, who live in a middle-class neighborhood of Montevideo, have targets with Mohamed’s face on them, fastened over their urinals.
Hmmm, do they have EBT cards down there? An EBT card, rent subsidies, ObamaPhone, etc. will go a long way to keep struggling terrorists from a life of crime.
Oh, yeah. The same guys that wipe their a$$es with pages from the Koran. You got it.
To the “folks” in Uraguay:
If you like your terrorists,you can keep your terrorists.
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