[wvns] Bodyguard for Osama Ordered Released

Federal Judge Ordered Release of Yemeni Detainee
Alleged of Bodyguard for Osama Bin Laden
Thursday, 20, August, 2009

U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler of the U.S. Federal Bureau ordered the release of Ali Mohamed a detainee sacrifice seven years in Guantánamo, which the Pentagon alleged that he was a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden.

Kessler considered Mohamed's arrest was illegal and ordered the U.S. government to take all necessary measures for his release.

U.S. Judge Gladys Kessler ruled for his release on Monday ordering the government to release a public story of her decision Friday, instructing the U.S. government to diplomatic steps to release him "forthwith."

Meanwhile, Kessler recommended the continuation of the arrest of six other detainees whom she considered their arrest was not contrary to the United States' law.

Al-Adahi, 47, testified by video link from the prison camp that he had met bin Laden before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks but never worked for him or waged jihad.

He was cited as saying that he did not fight the American alliance and did not deal with Taliban or Al-Qaeda.

"I am a working man in my country. I have never committed a crime," he said, according to a record of his mostly classified June hearing at the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C.

Ambiguous is how soon Al-Adahi might leave Guantanamo, where his attorneys said he suffers high blood pressure and at one point was offered angioplasty treatments by prison camp medical staff.

The U.S. is still negotiating a repatriation agreement with the President Ali Abdullah Saleh for up to 93 Yemeni citizens held among the 229 detainees at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba.

Kessler's ruling raised to 29 the number of long-held Guantanamo captives that federal judges have ordered released through unlawful detention suits, compared with the six whose detentions judges have upheld.

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