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Guantanamo guard reunited with ex-inmates
BBC News ^ | 12 Jan 2010 | Gavin Lee

Posted on 01/12/2010 11:08:23 AM PST by AreaMan

BBC NEWS

Guantanamo guard reunited with ex-inmates

By Gavin Lee


BBC News

Why would a former Guantanamo Bay prison guard track down two of his former captives - two British men - and agree to fly to London to meet them?

"You look different without a cap."

"You look different without the jump suits."

With those words, an extraordinary reunion gets under way.

The last time Ruhal Ahmed met Brandon Neely, he was "behind bars, behind a cage and [Brandon] was on the other side".

The location had been Camp X-Ray - the high-security detention camp run by the US in Guantanamo Bay. Mr Ahmed, originally from Tipton in the West Midlands, was among several hundred foreign terror suspects held at the centre.

Mr Neely was one of his guards.

The scene of this current exchange of pleasantries couldn't be more different from where they last met - a television studio in London. Also here is Shafiq Rasul, a fellow ex-Guantanamo prisoner, without whose Facebook page the reunion would never have happened.


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1 posted on 01/12/2010 11:08:27 AM PST by AreaMan
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To: AreaMan

sounds like the guard got converted to islam. How long before he ends up in Yemen


2 posted on 01/12/2010 11:11:55 AM PST by RWGinger
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To: AreaMan

See...nothing wrong with letting the GITMO crew go free...see see....see.....

see....

Pay no attention to the 20% recividity rate!

See the innocent muslims!!!!

*snicker*

Problem is libs suck this crap right up and respew it everywhere...


3 posted on 01/12/2010 11:14:13 AM PST by Crim
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To: AreaMan

The media can always find the one American traitor, but they can’t seem to find the 1000 terrorists that return to terror.


4 posted on 01/12/2010 11:14:38 AM PST by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: AreaMan

Maybe he was getting bunghole sex through the fence!


5 posted on 01/12/2010 11:24:12 AM PST by Noob1999 (LOOSE LIPS, SINK SHIPS)
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To: AreaMan
Ain't this just so sweet = and dangerously naive. "I thought how could it be somebody is here who's doing the same stuff that I do when I'm back home."

Because they're trained that way...duh.

Mohmammed Atah and his companion, the night before they bombed the Twin Towers, were in Maine - they went out to a bar and had beers, forbidden in Islam - except when on a mission to kill infidels - "same stuff everyone else in the bar was doing."

(BTW, I have never seen the 'bar' thing in the news - nor the fact that this was up north of Portland. Atah and buddy were in Brunswick, home of the Brunswick Naval Air Station. Why? Scoping things out.)

6 posted on 01/12/2010 11:27:10 AM PST by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" Lincoln)
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To: AreaMan

“”It was no different from me sitting at the bar with a friend of mine talking about women or music,” says Mr Neely.”
Mr. Neely is a tool. Stockholm syndrome in reverse. I believe this makes him very suspect as a policeman.


7 posted on 01/12/2010 11:28:30 AM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: AreaMan

%%
Guantanamero...
Guajiro, Guantanamero!
%%


8 posted on 01/12/2010 11:52:13 AM PST by mikrofon (Followed by a chorus of 'Kumbaya')
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To: AreaMan

Sounds as if this dude should be on the “no fly” list. And to the cops who this guy works with.....watch your backs.


9 posted on 01/12/2010 11:57:09 AM PST by kenmcg (THE)
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To: AreaMan

Thank you for the article. Looks like everyone posting on this thread seems to have more knowledge of this situation than the guys who lived through it.


10 posted on 01/12/2010 1:28:04 PM PST by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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