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Article: Former Guantanamo prisoner asks U.S. to review its founding ideals.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- February 6, 2008
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Byline: Scott Baldauf Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Khartoum, Sudan -- It took US Army interrogators at Guantanamo Bay five years to reach the conclusion that Adel Hassan Hamad was exactly who he claimed to be: a hospital administrator in Pakistan. On Dec. 11, 2007, they put him back on a military cargo plane, hooded and handcuffed, and sent him back to his home to Sudan.
Now Mr. Hamad says he'll sue the US government for compensation for those lost years - years where his family became impoverished and one daughter became sick and died. But he says it's not just about the money. He wants the US to return to what it used to be, a beacon ...