Abdul Haddi Bin Hadiddi
Abdul Haddi Bin Hadiddi is a citizen of Tunisia who was held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba, from August 5, 2002 to March 23, 2003.[1][2] The Department of Defense reports that he was born on March 18, 1969, in Bir'Alash, [sic] Tunisia and assigned him the Internment Serial Number 717.
Background
Historian Andy Worthington, the author of The Guantanamo Files, noted that he originally faced daunting justifications for his detention, but most of these had been abandoned, by 2006, and he was cleared for release in 2007.[3][4] Bin Hadiddi fled repressive Tunisia in 1987, for Italy. He held jobs in the restaurant and hotel industry, but also became involved with drugs. In 1999 he accepted help from the Jamaat-al-Tablighi, to travel to Pakistan, “to abandon his wayward lifestyle and return to his Muslim roots.”. He settled down in Pakistan, and married the daughter of a fellow Tunisian. Worthington suggested that his arrest in Pakistan, in April 2002, was motivated solely by the lucrative bounties US intelligence was offering.
Ben Hadiddi was transferred to Georgia, on March 23, 2010.[4]
References
- ↑ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
- ↑ Margot Williams (2008-11-03). "Guantanamo Docket: Abdul Haddi bin Hadiddi". New York Times. http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/717-abdul-haddi-bin-hadiddi. Retrieved 2016-12-11.
- ↑ Andy Worthington (2009-02-01). "The Guantánamo Files: Website Extras (10) – Seized in Pakistan (Part Two)". http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/the-guantanamo-files-website-extras-10-seized-in-pakistan-part-two/. Retrieved 2017-02-17. "The evidence against him originally involved claims that he had attended various training camps in Afghanistan, but by the time of his most recent publicly available review, in 2006, these had been dropped."
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Andy Worthington (2010-10-13). "Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Seven: Captured in Pakistan (3 of 3)". http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/10/13/who-are-the-remaining-prisoners-in-guantanamo-part-seven-captured-in-pakistan-3-of-3/. Retrieved 2017-02-17. "He then worked alongside his father-in-law, but one evening, in April 2002, as he went with a Pakistani friend to look at a house to rent, he was seized by the Pakistani police, presumably for the lucrative bounty payments available for vulnerable Arabs in Pakistan."
External links
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- Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Seven: Captured in Pakistan (3 of 3) Andy Worthington, October 13, 2010
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