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Profile: Sami al-Hajj
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5-1-2008 8:05 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/841410c1-9e80-4c78-a6ac-75a33aa40978/E1F6FE0B-1E2F-4FBC-A071-1AC167465D43/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4D338E8A-BB4C-49C8-8B4D-496394A8FAF7.htm" href="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4D338E8A-BB4C-49C8-8B4D-496394A8FAF7.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">english.aljazeera.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4D338E8A-BB4C-49C8-8B4D-496394A8FAF7.htm"><FONT size="2">Sami al-Hajj had been working as a cameraman for Al Jazeera when he was arrested on the border between Pakistan and </FONT><FONT size="2">Afghanistan in 2001.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4D338E8A-BB4C-49C8-8B4D-496394A8FAF7.htm"><FONT size="2">Since then he has spent six years in the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4D338E8A-BB4C-49C8-8B4D-496394A8FAF7.htm"><FONT size="2">Al-Hajj had been sent to the area to cover the US war against the Taliban and held a legitimate work visa.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4D338E8A-BB4C-49C8-8B4D-496394A8FAF7.htm"><FONT size="2">He was arrested after suspicions that he had links with al-Qaeda when his name and passport number came up on a list </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4D338E8A-BB4C-49C8-8B4D-496394A8FAF7.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/english.aljazeera.net/img/B141ED16-6E24-4FCF-8185-76BBEA040778" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4D338E8A-BB4C-49C8-8B4D-496394A8FAF7.htm"><FONT size="1">A reproduction of Sami al-Hajj's drawing from his series Sketches of My Nightmare</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4D338E8A-BB4C-49C8-8B4D-496394A8FAF7.htm"><FONT size="2">The passport number that the Pakistanis had was for an old document that al-Hajj had previously reported as having </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4D338E8A-BB4C-49C8-8B4D-496394A8FAF7.htm"><P><FONT size="2">He was kept prisoner in Afghanistan and Pakistan for five months before being handed over to US forces and taken to </FONT><FONT size="2">Guantanamo Bay as an "enemy combatant".</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4D338E8A-BB4C-49C8-8B4D-496394A8FAF7.htm"><FONT size="2">For the past seven years he has been prisoner 345. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4D338E8A-BB4C-49C8-8B4D-496394A8FAF7.htm"><FONT size="2">He is the only journalist to be detained at Guantanamo Bay without being charged. </FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E1F6FE0B-1E2F-4FBC-A071-1AC167465D43/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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5-1-2008
9:59 PM
dulios
From the BBC: he's just been released!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7378828.stm
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