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Adel al Zamel

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Adel al Zamel told reporters that during 2005, his last year in Guantanamo, interrogators repeatedly threatened that he would be transferred to a torture state for more brutal interrogation. Adel al Zamel said that, finally, the interrogators treatment cracked his will, and he told them:
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Adel al Zamel told McClatchy reporters that he still hadn't recovered from his initial meetings two and a half months earlier, when he was transferred to Guantanamo. He described being shown a diagram, with three names on it, linked by arrows:
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The McClatchy report stated Adel Al Zamel and some associates had been sentenced to a year in prison for an attack on a young woman they thought was being too publicly affectionate with her boyfriend.
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The detainees' defense had argued that testimony secured in Guantanamo could not be used in Kuwaiti courts, because the detainees and interrogators hadn't signed them.
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charity, and that he had never been anything more than a charity worker, distributing food and overseeing small infrastructure projects.
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published articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives. McClatchy reporters interviewed Adel al Zamel.
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to the case, which charged that none of the men had been cleared for release, even though the government had completed
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Transcript of Supreme Court oral arguments for Boumediene v. Bush (No. 06-1195) and Al Odah v. US (06-1196)
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Adel al Zamel was among the eleven captives covered in the July 2008 "Petitioners' Status Report" filed by
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Al Zamel was captured in Pakistan in February 2002 and he was transferred to Kuwait on November 2, 2005.
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on behalf of the four remaining Kuwaiti prisoners in Guantanamo. Seven other prisoners were
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Al Zamil was one of five Kuwaitis repatriated to Kuwaiti custody on November 4, 2005.
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Al Zamil's trial began in March 2006, and he was acquitted on July 22, 2006.
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reported that the two main charges were that the detainees had helped fund
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housing authority until 2000 when he moved to Afghanistan to work for the
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for them—and those factual returns had contained redacted sections.
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analysts report that Al Zamel was born on August 23, 1963, in
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Adel al Zamel told McClatchy reporters he had worked for the
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The five stood trial in a Kuwaiti court, and were acquitted.
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Justices Rule Terror Suspects Can Appeal in Civilian Courts
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Former captives alleged to have (re)joined insurgency
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Kuwaiti extrajudicial prisoners of the United States
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Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture
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Index

Adil Zamil Abdull Mohssin
Kuwait City
Kuwait
Guantanamo
ISN
Kuwait
extrajudicial detention
Guantanamo Bay detention camps
Cuba
Joint Task Force Guantanamo
counter-terrorism
Kuwait City
David J. Cynamon
Al Odah v. United States
amalgamated
factual returns
Military Commissions Act
The Washington Post
Al Wafa
Al Qaeda
Taliban
McClatchy News Service
Kuwait
al Wafa
UBL
Abu Ghaith
Osama bin Laden
Biography portal
Abdul-Aziz al-Shimmiri
Abdallah Saleh Ali Al Ajmi

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