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Friday 24th May 2013

Vol. XLVI No. 7, 2008-05-18

Shame of Guantanamo Bay

When will the US and the world wake up to the shame of Guantanamo Bay? This gulag and all that goes on in there fly in the face of all that America and the civilized world believe in, writes AIJAZ ZAKA SYED

My youngest one is as old as the young son of Sami Al Hajj, the Al Jazeera cameraman who was carried home to freedom on a stretcher last week, after seven years in the Guantanamo Bay.

Watching a shockingly emaciated Al Hajj shower kisses on his son at a Khartoum hospital, where he has been admitted after freedom from the high security prison in Cuba, I couldn’t help think about my own kids.

I put myself in Hajj’s shoes and wonder how I would fare if I ended u...

Washington has Egg on Its Face

The US had to free Al-Jazeera lensman Sami Al Hajj from Gitmo after six years as no charges could be brought against him. Who will return him the lost golden years of his youth, asks Syed Tausief Ausaf

The Bush Administration has egg on its face with Sami Al Hajj’s release from the US-run gulag called Guantanamo Bay and his high-profile welcome in Khartoum. (President Omar Hasan Ahmad Al Bashir went to see him). That Washington held Al-Jazeera lensman for over six years without putting him on a trial or bringing charges against him speaks volumes about the self-styled world policeman’s unfair policies.

The US has the audacity to issue an annual human rights report...