Posted on 07/09/2006 10:59:02 AM PDT by Alouette
ALGIERS Two years ago, a motley collection of prisoners spent night after night repeating their telephone numbers to one another from within the dark and dirty cells where they were being held in Afghanistan. Anyone who got out, they said they agreed, would use the numbers to contact the families of the others to let them know that they were still alive.
At least two of those men are now free and, thanks to the memorization exercise, are back in touch with each other.
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In May 2003, Mr. Saidi was expelled from Tanzania, where he ran a branch of Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, an international charity based in Saudi Arabia that promoted the fundamentalist Wahhabi strain of Islam and has since been shut down after being accused of financing terrorist groups. Tanzanian newspapers reported on Mr. Saidi's expulsion at the time, but nothing was known about where he went.
In a recent interview, Mr. Saidi, 43, said that after he was expelled he was handed over to American agents and flown to Afghanistan, where he was held for 16 months before being delivered to Algeria and freed without ever being charged or told why he had been imprisoned. He acknowledged that he was carrying a fake passport when he was detained, but he said he had no connection to terrorism.
Wearing a white robe and a white skullcap in his lawyer's office here, he held up two white shoes he said his captors gave him before setting him free in August 2004. The only other physical evidence he offered of his imprisonment were fading scars on his wrists that he said were from having been chained to the ceiling of a cell for five days.
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Boo hoo.
That's the Al-Jezzera Times (NY Editiion).
After being held for a week in a prison in the mountains of Malawi, Mr. Saidi said, a group of people arrived in a sport utility vehicle: a gray-haired Caucasian woman and five men dressed in black wearing black masks revealing only their eyes. The Malawians blindfolded him, and his clothes were cut away, he said. He heard someone taking photographs. Then, he said, the blindfold was removed and the agents covered his eyes with cotton and tape, inserted a plug in his anus and put a disposable diaper on him before dressing him. He said they covered his ears, shackled his hands and feet and drove him to an airplane where they put him on the floor."It was a long trip, from Saturday night to Sunday morning, " Mr. Saidi recalled. When the plane landed, he said, he was taken to what he described as a "dark prison" filled with deafening Western music. The lights were rarely turned on.
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do these guys have NO freakin shame??
fading scars on his wrists that he said were from having been chained to the ceiling of a cell for five days.
Probably in the basement of his mosque for screwing up.
Anal probes, OH MY!
Malawian Aliens Bump.
He acknowledged that he was carrying a fake passport when he was detained, but he said he had no connection to terrorism.
Uh huh, and I'm the King of England. Possession of a fake passport, in itself, is incredibly suspicious. Add in the fact he's a wahhabist, and you'd have to be the NYT to still believe the guy is an innocent victim.
NYT - All the treason thats fit to print.
A plug and a diaper?...
This is pathetic even for Arab propaganda.
You wanna know why he was let go...
...because he snitched!
Little ho.
The very fact this guy is alive to tell his story, and not dismembered or ransomed, etc., nullifies his position...this is pure spin and proganda...NYT loves terrorists.
NYT proving the gravitas of imbecilic groupthink knows no bounds every day.
the NYT cries about this "mans" civil rights, while the rest of the USA cries about dead Soliders and other victims of terrorism.
Isnt is ironic, dontcha think.
Why would a perfectly innocent person who has never done anything wrong require a "fake" passport?

In contrast, U.S. personnel taken prisoner find it more difficult to conduct memorization exercises due to a lack of a head, let alone ears.
Additionally, the only way they can get in contact with their loved ones is through a séance.
I think I can be excused for having little sympathy for these innocent, fake-passport holding individuals.
As far as I'm concerned, these vermin have no civil rights. Anything they get from us after their capture is at our grace. These crawling slime have no moral ground whatsoever from which to demand decent, or even humane, treatment.
Is he sure it was a plug and not a lightbulb?
I would say he is free because he ratted out his friends. I know lots of people who travel on illegal passports. So much more fun when you are shopping duty free.
It's easy to churn out propaganda when that's your goal. You can always come up with "details" to use to pad your talking points.
I mean if the USA, is as evil as the NYT says we are , Mr. Saidi would have never been heard from or seen again.
Memo to NY Slimes: Boo-effing-hoo!
Probably wishful thinking on his part! It's a fantasy. If it was real, there would be the dreaded panties!
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