Ahmed Abdul Qader - Knowledge (XXG)

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called Hussein Almerfedi), it was considered significant that Abdul Qader Ahmed Hussein had stayed at two mosques in Pakistan run by the vast and apolitical missionary organization Jamaat al-Tablighi, which is regarded, by Justice Department lawyers and the Circuit Court, as a front for terrorism, even though it has millions of non-terrorist members worldwide, and using it to justify detention is akin to imprisoning Catholics for the actions of the IRA.

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That's an understatement. There hasn't been a single report in the Estonian press about Mr. Qader since mid-January, just days after he landed in the country. Some of Estonia's top investigative journalists say they've tried looking into what happened to Mr. Qader after he arrived, but couldn't find

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Critics called it an overdue acknowledgment that the so-called Combatant Status Review Tribunals are unfairly geared toward labeling detainees the enemy, even when they pose little danger. Simply redoing the tribunals won't fix the problem, they said, because the system still allows coerced evidence

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Reviewing his case, in light of the Circuit Court's rulings, Judge Walton denied Hussein's habeas petition for a variety of reasons that do not exactly encourage overwhelming support for the direction the habeas hearings have taken. Following a previous Circuit Court ruling (in the case of a Yemeni

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officers in the US military (Commanders, naval Captains, Lieutenant Colonels and Colonels) the officials seconded to the task force were drawn from not only the Department of Defense, but also from five other agencies, including the Departments of State, Justice, Homeland Security. President Obama

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The U.S. Justice Department has made public the names of 55 Guantanamo prisoners who have been approved for transfer to the custody of other countries, releasing information sought by human rights organizations. The announcement, which reverses a 2009 decision, was a surprise to organizations that

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Savage said that Qader had a pleasant surprise when his boss realized that his new apprentice was the recent refugee who had been held in Guantanamo. He had kept his history private, even from his boss, when he was hire in the fall of 2015. However, his boss was friendly, and curious about his

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The Daily Telegraph, along with other newspapers including The Washington Post, today exposes America's own analysis of almost ten years of controversial interrogations on the world's most dangerous terrorists. This newspaper has been shown thousands of pages of top-secret files obtained by the

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The US had offered to pay 62,600 euros per person to help cover housing and living costs, according to Postimees, which obtained the Wikileaks documents, detailing US State Department and Tallinn embassy dialogue, from its Norwegian affiliate newspaper,

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history, and invited him to a family dinner to share it. However, one drunken neighbor had harassed him, had left garbage at his door, and Qader had to phone the police. After that, harassment by the neighbor stopped.

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related to the detention of individuals in Guantanamo. He established a task force to re-review the status of all the remaining captives. Where the OARDEC officials reviewing the status of the captives were all

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On October 9 the Estonian Government decided to accept a Guantanamo prison inmate and give him an opportunity to seek asylum in Estonia. The 31-year-old Ahmed Abdul Qader arrived on Wednesday afternoon.

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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

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The Estonian government made the announcement in a statement that did not name the captive it would offer an opportunity to start a new life there after likely more than a decade at the prison in Cuba.

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Judge Edwards raised a similar alarm in another Guantánamo case, an appeal by a Yemeni detainee, Abdul al-Qader Ahmed Hussain, a teenager when he was captured in early 2002 in Faisalabad, Pakistan.

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on January 14, 2015. The government decided to offer an invitation to Qader on October 9, 2014. The invitation told him he would be allowed to apply for asylum status.

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Qader said recently, trying to explain how that sense of paralysis has stayed with him. "I thought that after two months' release, I'd be back to normal," he said.

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The Estonian government provides Qader with a studio apartment, a stipend, language lessons, health care, and a coach to help him adjust to life in Estonia.

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published formerly secret diplomatic cables that stated the USA had offered to pay Estonia 62600 euros for every captive Estonia took.

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Any trouble I get myself in now — even an honest mistake — will be a hundred times worse than if any normal person did it,

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List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006

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reported, on August 29, 2009, that Estonia was prepared to accept multiple individuals. However, on October 12, 2010,

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requests the DoD published documents from Ahmed Abdul's annual OARDEC hearings from 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.

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Inside the Guantánamo Bay hearings: Barbarian "Justice" dispensed by KGB-style "military tribunals"

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Estonia had been in discussions to accept individuals formerly held in Guantanamo, for years.

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gave the task force a year, and it recommended the release of Qader and 54 other individuals.

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But I cannot live my life regularly. I try, but it is like part of me is still at Guantánamo.

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from June 18, 2002, to January 14, 2015. His detainee ID number was 690. The

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Guantanamo captive Akhmed Abdul Qadir wearing the white uniform issued to

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Christopher Hope; Robert Winnett; Holly Watt; Heidi Blake (2011-04-27).

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was drafted about him on May 20, 2008. It was signed by camp commandant

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stated, that: "Up to now, the man has not been outside the country."

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Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants

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Ahmed Abdul Qader was listed as one of the captives who was an

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published an 8-page summary of the transcript of his hearing.

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Guantánamo Prisoners Getting Their Day, but Hardly in Court

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Qader's family arranged a marriage for him, conducted via

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