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finally released on 30 March 2007. At Bagram, he was reportedly threatened and subjected to
ill-treatment and sleep deprivation for up to three days at a time;251
(d) Jamil El-Banna, a Jordanian national and British resident, was also seized in the
Gambia in November 2002 and rendered to the “dark prison”, then to Guantanamo. He was
released from Guantanamo in December 2007;
(e) Six other detainees were flown to Guantanamo on 20 September 2004 after having
spent one to three years in custody: Abdul Rahim Ghulam Rabbani and Mohammed Ahmad
Ghulam Rabbani, Pakistani brothers seized in Karachi, who were held in the “salt pit”;252
Abdulsalam al-Hela, a Yemeni colonel and businessman who was seized in Egypt;253 Adil
al-Jazeeri, an Algerian seized in Pakistan;254 Sanad al-Kazimi, a Yemeni seized in the United
Arab Emirates;255 Saifullah Paracha, a Pakistani businessman seized in Thailand, who was held
in isolation in Bagram for a year;256 and Sanad al-Kazimi, a Yemeni seized in the United Arab
Emirates.257 Mr. Al-Kazimi was apprehended in Dubai in January 2003 and held at an
undisclosed location in or near Dubai for two months. He was then transferred to a different
251
Interview with Bisher al-Rawi (annex II, case 4).
252
Both Laid Saidi and Khaled El-Masri spoke about getting to know the Rabbani brothers in
the “salt pit”. See Craig S. Smith and Souad Mekhennet, “Algerian tells of dark term in US
hands”, New York Times, 7 July 2006. Available from
www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/world/africa/07algeria.html.
253
Amnesty International, “USA: who are the Guantanamo detainees: Case Sheet No. 15:
Yemeni national: Abdulsalam al-Hela”, 11 January 2006. Available from
www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/012/2006.
254
ARB Set 11. Available from
www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Transcript_Set_11_21662-22010.pdf,
pp. 315-334.
255
Guantanamo Bay Litigation: status report for petitioners Mohammed al-Shimrani (ISN 195)
and Sanad al-Kazimi (ISN 1453), 18 July 2008. Available from
http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/district-of-columbia/dcdce/
1:2008mc00442/131990/100/0.pdf. Also on the flight that took these men to Guantanamo were
Ali al-Hajj al-Sharqawi, Hassan bin Attash and Binyam Mohamed. See also paras 151
and 159 below.
256
257
See the detainee’s profile on the Reprieve website at www.reprieve.org.uk/saifullahparacha.
Guantanamo Bay Litigation: status report for petitioners Mohammed al-Shimrani (ISN 195)
and Sanad al-Kazimi (ISN 1453), 18 July 2008. Available from
http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/district-ofcolumbia/dcdce/1:2008mc00442/131990/100/0.pdf. Also on the flight that took these men to
Guantanamo were Ali al-Hajj al-Sharqawi, Hassan bin Attash and Binyam Mohamed. See also
paras. 151 and 159 below.
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