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``Release my son in Guantanamo``

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  1. Posted on Monday 23 November 2009 - 15:47
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    Muhyadin Ahmed Roble, AfricaNews reporter in Nairobi, Kenya
    Adar Mohammed Yusuf, a Somali mother, whose son is in incarceration at the Guantanamo Bay, is pleading for the release of her son whom the warlords in Mogadishu arrested in 2004. He was handed over to the United States of America. She told AfricaNews her son did not commit any crime.
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    Adar, 62, said her son - Guled Hassan Duran – is innocent. She told AfricaNews: "If my son is a terrorist, why isn't he charged accordingly in a court of law.”

    She said the decision of the Washington government is upsetting the son’s family of four young kids and the wife. “I am calling on the Somali government and human rights groups to look at my son’s case.”

    Hassan is one of the 200 prisoners held at the US-managed Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. He is being accused of being a terrorist who trained in Afghanistan and a member of the Al-Ittihad Al-Islami.

    He was born in 1974 in Mogadishu and was among dozens of Somalis captured by the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism (ARPCT) backed by Central Intelligence Agency.

    The International Crisis Group, which had direct contacts with the warlords, said in June 2006 that the CIA was funding $100,000 to $150,000 per month to the ARPCT

    ARPCT was secretly operating in Somalia between 2002 and June 2006 when the Union of Islamic Courts took over the south and central Somalia.

    U.S. President Barrack Obama promised to close down Guantanamo, which turned into a symbol of abuse and torture. He hopes to completely close down the Bay in January 2010.

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