After 17 years in the controversial US prison Guantanamo, Pakistani taxi driver Ahmed Rabbani (52) is finally free. By the way, the US Senate determined that he is not a terrorist six years ago.
A taxi driver from Karachi, Ahmed Rabbani, was arrested 19 years ago in a raid in Pakistan along with his brother, due to alleged contacts with Al Qaeda. After that he was transferred first to Kabul and then to Guantanamo.
His lawyer Clive Stafford Smith said that Ahmed Rabbani was arrested by mistake, because they thought he was Hasan Gul, a wanted criminal, reports RTS.
In the Senate reports, it is stated that Rabbani was subjected to torture for a year and a half. It is also stated that Guantánamo recommended that a process be initiated against him, but that did not happen.
In an article in the American media, Rabbani stated that he was arrested by the Pakistani authorities and sold to the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He also said then that in Kabul they kept him in a dark place, where his hands were shackled above his head for days.
Asadullah Haron Gul, Saifullah Paraca and Abdul Latif Naser are also released.
This is just one of the many mistakes the United States made in hunting radical Islamists after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on September 11.
A similar fate to Rabbani's was experienced by Khalid al-Masri - the CIA wrongly identified this German citizen of Lebanese origin as a person who maintains contacts with radical Islamists in Ulm.
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