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Britain Asks U.S. to Release 5 Detainees From Guantánamo - New York Times

Britain Asks U.S. to Release 5 Detainees From Guantánamo - New York Times
Mr. Mohamed, a gangly Ethiopian who had lived in Washington for two years as a teenager, before his family moved to Britain, was seized in Pakistan in April 2002 and turned over to the Americans. His was one of the early cases of rendition, the Bush administration policy of secretly taking suspected terrorists to third countries for interrogation.

Mr. Mohamed was taken to Morocco, where he was held and interrogated for 18 months, according to Mr. Stafford Smith. According to the accounts he gave to his lawyer, Mr. Stafford Smith, and which have been published elsewhere, he was brutally abused there. On several occasions, men used a scalpel to make cuts on his penis, Mr. Mohamed has alleged.

American officials initially said that he was an accomplice with Jose Padilla in a plot to detonate a dirty bomb in the United States. That charge was eventually dropped against Mr. Padilla, who is on trial in Miami on other terrorism-related charges. Mr. Mohamed has not been formally charged.

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