Published: 13th October 2006
MANAMA: Bahraini Guantanamo Bay detainee Salah Abdul Rasool Al Blooshi is expected to freed and flown home today, sources revealed last night.
Al Blooshi, now aged 24, was arrested on the Pakistan border as he tried to leave Afghanistan in December 2001.
The US accused him of being an Al Qaeda recruiter, but he has always maintained that he was in Afghanistan on a humanitarian mission. Two other Bahrainis, Juma Al Dossary, 32, and Isa Al Murbati, 42, are also detained in Guantanamo Bay.
Three others, Adel Kamel Hajee, Abdulla Al Nuaimi and Shaikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa, were released and flown home last November.
Published: 13th October 2006
MANAMA: Bahraini Guantanamo Bay detainee Salah Abdul Rasool Al Blooshi is expected to freed and flown home today, sources revealed last night.
Al Blooshi, now aged 24, was arrested on the Pakistan border as he tried to leave Afghanistan in December 2001.
The US accused him of being an Al Qaeda recruiter, but he has always maintained that he was in Afghanistan on a humanitarian mission. Two other Bahrainis, Juma Al Dossary, 32, and Isa Al Murbati, 42, are also detained in Guantanamo Bay.
Three others, Adel Kamel Hajee, Abdulla Al Nuaimi and Shaikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa, were released and flown home last November.
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