Apparantly one of them studied law at my uni (Wolves) and he's coming in to do a talk on Monday about his ordeal.
The email reads...
"ENEMY COMBATANT
A Britsh Muslim's Journey to Guantanamo and Back
A Talk by Moazzam Begg
Moazzam Begg, a former Wolverhampton University law student, was arrested in Pakistan in 2002, where he was helping set up education programmes for children, in the panic-stricken months after the 9/11 attacks. He was then sent to Guantanamo where he spent three years in prison, much of it in solitary confinement, and was subjected to over three hundred interrogations, death threats and torture, witnessing the killings of two detainees. He was released early in 2005 without explanation or apology"
I'm going to go and hear his version of the events that led up to his "arrest" and imprisonment. I've never been to a talk like this but I'm quite intruiged.
I also hear there's a film coming out, or out now about his ordeal.
I'm curious as to why he was arrested in Pakistan, and what US intel's reasoning behind his arrest, if, as he states, he was setting up "education programmes". (The email from uni isn't written brilliantly and I'm puzzled at the "panic-stricken months after the 9/11 attacks means)
Interesting eh?
The email reads...
"ENEMY COMBATANT
A Britsh Muslim's Journey to Guantanamo and Back
A Talk by Moazzam Begg
Moazzam Begg, a former Wolverhampton University law student, was arrested in Pakistan in 2002, where he was helping set up education programmes for children, in the panic-stricken months after the 9/11 attacks. He was then sent to Guantanamo where he spent three years in prison, much of it in solitary confinement, and was subjected to over three hundred interrogations, death threats and torture, witnessing the killings of two detainees. He was released early in 2005 without explanation or apology"
I'm going to go and hear his version of the events that led up to his "arrest" and imprisonment. I've never been to a talk like this but I'm quite intruiged.
I also hear there's a film coming out, or out now about his ordeal.
I'm curious as to why he was arrested in Pakistan, and what US intel's reasoning behind his arrest, if, as he states, he was setting up "education programmes". (The email from uni isn't written brilliantly and I'm puzzled at the "panic-stricken months after the 9/11 attacks means)
Interesting eh?
