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Article: Al-Jazeera cameraman freed from Guantanamo
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- May 2, 2008
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- An Al-Jazeera cameraman was released from U.S.
custody at Guantanamo Bay and returned home to Sudan early Friday
after six years of imprisonment that drew worldwide protests.
Sami al-Haj, who had been on a hunger strike for 16 months,
grimaced as he was carried off a U.S. military plane by American
personnel in Sudan's capital, Khartoum. He was put on a stretcher
and taken straight to a hospital.
Al-Jazeera showed footage of al-Haj being carried into the
hospital, looking feeble and with his eyes closed, but smiling. Some
of the men surrounding his stretcher were kissing him on the cheek.
"Our eyes have the right to shed tears after we have spent all
those years in prison. ...
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