An Al-Jazeera cameraman recently released from the Guantanamo Bay Prison has accused the US authorities of insulting Islamic symbols. There were "many violations -- (we were) deprived from praying and there were... deliberate insults to God's holy book, the Qur'an, at the US military prison in Guantanamo," Sami al-Hajj said from his hospital bed in Khartoum, AFP reported on Friday.| Right on schedule. al-Qaeda mook claims we insulted the holy book ... |
Pakistani intelligence officers seized al-Hajj while he was traveling near the Afghan border in December 2001. He was handed over to the US military in January 2002, accused of being an "enemy combatant," and was flown to the US base in Cuba.
Al-Hajj went on a hunger strike in January 2007, demanding 'the right for detainees to practice their religion freely and without duress, application of the Geneva Convention to the treatment of Guantanamo detainees and his release or trial by a federal US court.'