Sent to Guantánamo as a Teen-Ager, and Now to Estonia

Sent to Guantánamo as a Teen-Ager, and Now to Estonia (4)

Rahvusvahelised uudised | 16 Jan 2015 | EWR OnlineEWR

Amy Davidson, newyorker.com January 15, 2015
When Akhmed Abdul Qadir Hussain was eighteen (or a little younger, by some accounts), in early 2002, he was arrested by the Pakistani police, who gave him to American forces, who sent him to Guantánamo Bay. When he was about twenty-five, in 2009, the Guantánamo Review Task Force cleared him for release. It had taken seven years, but, as a Pentagon press release put it, “this man was unanimously approved for transfer by the six departments and agencies comprising the task force.” But he remained in Guantánamo for more than five additional years. Finally, on Wednesday, the Obama Administration announced that it had put Hussain on a plane to Estonia. He is not Estonian; he was born in Yemen. But now, at the age of about thirty-one, he will presumably learn at least the rudiments of the Estonian language, maybe while taking in the architecture in Talinn’s old city and on the Baltic coast.

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to - Mihkel19 Jan 2015 16:44

Can you clarify your comment here?
I can't quite understand what you mean.

Mihkel17 Jan 2015 11:54

Akhmed is the first on many many immigrants to Estonia whose appearance signifies a bi-lateral understanding of the assurances made last year following President Obama's Nokia Hall speech in Tallinn that Estonia cares about minority rights policy which is beyond the grasp of national rights and interests.

Hämmingus!16 Jan 2015 15:26

He was sent to Guantanamo, not as a teenager; rather, as a battlefield detainee, who might have killed US soldiers.
That they all might be teenagers is entirely irrelevant.

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