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Update: Saturday, 15 May 2010    

7 Guantanamo detainees to be released later in July 7 Guantanamo detainees to be released later in July

An attorney quotes an Algerian security services source
Monday Jul 16 2007.

A Guantanamo detainee attorney quoted “a confidential source within the Algerian security services that seven Algerians nationals are due to be sent from Guantanamo to Algeria on July 27 or 28.”




It is likely that the think is about a group that Ambassador at-Large Clint Williamson negotiated on with Algerian officials in Algeria last April.

Guantanamo detainee Ahmed Belbacha has sent a letter, through his attorney Zachary Katzenlson, to his family in Algeria to tell them about information he knew from the source that talked about him, indicating that he has informed the British government and asked them to receive Belbacha who used to live in Britain legally, before leaving it in 1999 to Pakistan under unknown circumstances where he had been arrested and handed over to the CIA.

The letter of which El Khabar got a copy mentions that “a source from the Algerian security services revealed that seven Algerians nationals are to be sent from Guantanamo to Algeria on July 27 or 28; yet we have not been able to confirm this from any other source, nor do we have the names of the seven men, but we must take this report seriously, we believe that Ahmed is one of the men.”

Attorney Katzenlson living in Britain stressed that he visited Belbacha Saturday in Guantanamo “he looked well and smiled at news of everyone. I gave him an update on all the latest news”, namely the release date of the aforementioned detainees. Ahmed brother told El Khabar yesterday that he refuses the transfer to Algeria, without indicating further details.

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