Evidence Links ‘High-Value’ Detainee to Al Qaeda

amer ^ | Donna Miles

[SandRat]

WASHINGTON, May 15, 2007 – A detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who previously lived in the United States, denied he had any involvement with an al Qaeda group or had planned to reenter the country to commit a terrorist act.

Majid Khan, a native of Pakistan whose family lives in Baltimore, Md., insisted during his Feb. 8 combatant status review tribunal hearing that he is not an enemy combatant. Pentagon officials today released a transcript of the hearing held at the Guantanamo facility.

The tribunal was an administrative hearing to determine only if Khan meets the criteria to be designated an enemy combatant.

Facts presented during the hearing linked Khan to al Qaeda and noted that he planned to use falsified travel documents to return to the United States.

Evidence presented during the tribunal revealed that in early 2003, Khan tapped Uzair Paracha, a U.S. permanent resident alien he met in Pakistan, to impersonate him in the United States. Khan wanted to make it appear that he had never left the United States and planned to use Paracha to obtain immigration documents that would enable him to reenter illegally. Paracha recently was found guilty of material support to terrorism and sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Other evidence linked Khan to Lyman Faris, also imprisoned for providing material support and resources to al Qaeda, as well as conspiracy for providing al Qaeda information about possible U.S. targets. Faris was convicted in May 2003 and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

The evidence also revealed Khan was involved in transporting people across the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and had expressed a desire to assassinate Pakistan President Pervez Musharaff by detonating a suicide vest.

Presented with evidence that a previously convicted terrorist had a debit card and five other identification cards in Khan’s name, Khan said he had no intention of using them himself.
Rather, he said, these documents were to be used by “desperate” people in Pakistan to travel to the United States so they could apply for asylum or refugee status.

Khan submitted a “statement of torture” at the tribunal, claiming he was mentally tortured during his detainment. Among his complaints were that he and other detainees were given low-quality soap and other toiletries, noisy fans and deflated balls for recreation that hardly bounced.

He said he protested by refusing to eat or drink, and complained that his captors responded by force-feeding intravenously. Khan said he also protested by chewing through one of his own arteries.

Khan was the 13th “high-value” detainee at Guantanamo Bay to receive a combatant status review tribunal hearing at the facility.

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[SandRat]

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WAR News at Home and Abroad You'll Hear Nowhere Else!

All the News the MSM refuses to use!

Or if they do report it, without the anti-War Agenda Spin!

[james500]

“Khan said he also protested by chewing through one of his own arteries.”

See that, Cindy? That’s a protester! SAY NO TO BLOOD FLO!

[Thebaddog]

Khan submitted a “statement of torture” at the tribunal, claiming he was mentally tortured during his detainment. Among his complaints were that he and other detainees were given low-quality soap and other toiletries, noisy fans and deflated balls for recreation that hardly bounced.

I'd be saying that his balls hardly bounced if it wasn't also reported that he chewed through one of his arteries as some crazy protest.

[Mikey_1962]

I want my M-TV!

[ishabibble]

You would chew through your own arteries as well, if you were forced to use unscented deodorant. O the Hugh Manatee!
Lousy dollar store shampoo is a war crime...it’s right there in the Geneva Conventions.

I say that Free Republic should adopt Majid and help him recover from such horrendous torture. First, we will give him a new name, a not a smelly cab driver name, something like Kyle.

Kyle Khan, what do you think? Then we could extreme makeover Kyle, get rid of the monobrow and pluck his ears, too. We could send salon shampoo and conditioners, some of that Axe stuff that the young guys like, and a real bouncy basketball for his very own. We can’t do much about the “crap” newspapers since we are all in the same boat there, but we could get the DVD and the Ipod for him. Then he’ll be all set for the next 150 yrs. that he’s going to be sitting on his jihadi a@@ in the Caribbean sunshine.

[Grizzled Bear]

Khan submitted a “statement of torture” at the tribunal, claiming he was mentally tortured during his detainment. Among his complaints were that he and other detainees were given low-quality soap and other toiletries, noisy fans and deflated balls for recreation that hardly bounced.

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Additional torture claims included -

No REAL mayonnaise with lunch, just the crappy imitation stuff.

The guards would turn off the tv in the day room so the prisoners never got to see the end of their favorite shows.

The guards would NOT turn off the tv in the day room while it was tuned to “The View.”

The guards served the poached salmon with a domestic red wine.

Shouting “Allah Akbar” or “Death to America?” That means no desert for a week!

The prison library copies of the Harry Potter books all have the last ten pages removed.

Music piped into the cells - Dixie Chicks, 24/7!

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Khan submitted a “statement of torture”...

...were given low-quality soap and other toiletries, noisy fans and deflated balls for recreation that hardly bounced.

Did you hire a lawyer to think that one up? Dumba$$!

[Grizzled Bear]

...noisy fans and deflated balls for recreation that hardly bounced.

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When they complained about “Noisy Fans,” were they referring to the time when Cindy Sheehan and her friends protested Gitmo from the Cuban side of the fence?

Those freaks can get loud!

[stephenjohnbanker]

““Khan said he also protested by chewing through one of his own arteries.””

Moonbat nutcase !

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[james500]

p18:
“If I was an extremist Muslim, why would I teach computers to Muslim and non-Muslim for free in Baltimore mosque ISB in 2001?”

Makes sense. I guess we should let him go?

[coconutt2000]

Thanks to the Liberal Left, we now have to jump through hoops to classify men captured in the act of waging war against our nation and our troops as enemy combatants.

War used to be a lot simpler. There were a lot fewer lawyers.