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Appeals court overturns release of Gitmo detainee


February 15, 2011 – A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned the release of a detainee still at Guantanamo Bay who says he was tortured into falsely confessing that he was part of al-Qaida. U.S. officials say Saeed Hatim of Yemen acknowledged that he worked for al-Qaida and the Taliban and fought against American forces. But Hatim says he only confessed because he was repeatedly beaten, blindfolded and threatened with rape...

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Appeals court overturns release of Gitmo detainee

By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press

February 15, 2011

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned the release of a detainee still at Guantanamo Bay who says he was tortured into falsely confessing that he was part of al-Qaida.

U.S. officials say Saeed Hatim of Yemen acknowledged that he worked for al-Qaida and the Taliban and fought against American forces. But Hatim says he only confessed because he was repeatedly beaten, blindfolded and threatened with rape.

Hatim was captured in November 2001 in Pakistan as he fled bombings in Afghanistan that began after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the U.S. He was sent to a military base in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he said he was abused so badly that he still can't raise his left arm without pain. He said he stuck with the confession after being transferred to the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in June 2002 because he feared he would be punished if he changed his story.

Justice Department attorneys arguing against Hatim's release did not dispute his torture claims, but said they were only relying on statements that Hatim made when he arrived at Guantanamo after his alleged abuse ended.

U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina granted Hatim's petition for release in December 2009, but later said Hatim should continue to be detained while the case went through appeal.

The three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals in Washington ruled that decisions issued in other Guantanamo cases after Urbina's ruling have set new legal precedent and said Hatim's case must be heard again in light of the new standards.

For instance, the appeals court said, Urbina ruled that prisoners could only be held if they were found to be "part of" al-Qaida or the Taliban and Hatim did not fit the description. But an appeals court ruling last year said detainees only had to support those enemy forces to be detained.

U.S. officials say Hatim trained at an al-Qaida terrorist camp, stayed at safehouses affiliated with al-Qaida and the Taliban, was under the command of al-Qaida and Taliban leadership at the battlefront against anti-Taliban forces and was identified by a witness as having fought against the United States at the battle of Tora Bora.

Urbina had been particularly troubled by that witness' credibility because of reports from Guantanamo officials that he suffered from severe psychological problems, including hallucinations and two suicide attempts. Urbina wrote that he "refuses to credit what is arguably the government's most serious allegation in this case based solely on one statement, made years after the events in question, by an individual whose grasp on reality appears to have been tenuous at best."





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