THE Guantanamo files: Rebel Libyan layers of prisoner and US of ally of the species

Mr Qumu, 51, is today to oust an important figure in the Libyan rebels battle, Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, reportedly one of the leaders of a ragtag band of fighters known as the Darnah Brigade for his birthplace, this shoddy port city of 100,000 people in the northeastern Libya. The former foe and prisoner of the United States is now an ally of the kind, a remarkable turnabout as a result of the shift of American policy, rather than any obvious change of Mr Qumu.

He was a tank driver in the 1980s Soviet troops take years, while the Central Intelligence Agency was religious militant billion expenditure in the Libyan army trying to support of Afghanistan. Mr Qumu moved to Afghanistan in the early 1990's, as well as Osama bin Laden and other former mujahideen were forcibly against their former benefactor, the United States apply.

He was in Pakistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the membership of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Colonel Qadhafi accused that taken prisoner and after Guantanamo sent - partly on the basis of the information Government.

"The Libyan Government prisoner a ' dangerous man with no qualms about committing terrorist acts," "says that designated 2005 review, obviously, results obtained by the New York Times quote Libyan intelligence."?"He was known as one of the commanders of the Afghan Arabs, extremist'"the Libyan information on, to Arab fighters who remained in Afghanistan after the anti-Soviet Jihad."

If this evaluation of Guantanamo was written, was the United States service on terrorism works closely with Colonel Qadhafi intelligence. The United States now, is supplier of the international coalition a leading, try - to force Colonel Qadhafi and is with air makes the rebels, including Mr Qumu secure.

The classified Guantanamo review of Mr Qumu claims that he suffered under "non-specific personality disorder" and tells - again relying on the Libyan Government as a source - a history of drug addiction and drug trafficking, and charges of murder and armed assault.

1993 The document claims, Mr Qumu escape from a Libyan prison, fled to Egypt and went on to Afghanistan, to training in a camp run by Mr bin Laden. Mr Qumu denied in Guantanamo know terrorist activities. He said he feared prosecution for Libya, where he confronted and asked to go where "you (the United States) me, according to a hearing summary can look at" returned to another country.

However, 2007, he is released from Guantanamo after Libya and in the next year in an amnesty for militants.

Colonel Qadhafi has allegations about Mr. Qumu past in statements Al Qaeda blamed for the entire Libyan uprising quoted. Series found in the rebels nervously the presence of at least a few former members American officials.

The walls of buildings along the street in Darnah are with the usual anti-Gaddafi and pro-Western slogans, in English and Arabic, all found eastern Libya decorated. But there are extensions: "No. Qaeda" and "no to extremism."

Darnah has reason to be sensitive. The city has a long history of Islamic militancy, including a revolt against Colonel Qadhafi rule led by Islamists in the mid-1990s, which led a vicious crackdown. Activists from here are credited with beginning the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, which later announced, that it was with Al-Qaeda branch company, and fight the militant as Mr. Qumu in Afghanistan.

Darnah has although, notably, a claim to the world's most productive recruiting ground for suicide bombers. An analysis of the 600 suicide bombers in Iraq by combating terrorism Center at West point that that the 440, that their residence in a recruiting roster 52 of Darna, the best of each city, with Riyadh, Saudi Arabia waren40 time send as 1930–32 lists, as the next largest source of 51.

In addition to Mr Qumu, say local residents the Darnah Brigade of Abdul Hakim al-Hasadi, another Libyan thought to be in Afghanistan during the reign of the Taliban, a militant, was when Al Qaeda had training camps, is run.

Mr Qumu last week to enable Mr Hasadi, but has not for a promised interview, in crumpled fatigues with light beard and a lazy left eye, constantly half closed. He denied that Mr Qumu was in his group, recently the martyrs of Abu Salim Brigade, according to a prison in Tripoli, where 1,200 inmates were slaughtered in 1996 renamed. Mr Qumu sons said in his Brigade, he.

Mr Hasadi said "I white not convince such as everyone, that we here are not Al Qaeda,". "Our goal is to overthrow Qadhafi," he added. "I know that you never believe you me, but it's true."

At the moment seem Western observers in Benghazi, the temporary rebel capital 180 miles from here, content, to accept the assurances. "We are more concerned about Al Qaeda infiltration of outside as the indigenous,", said one. "Most of them have a local agenda so that they present not as much as a threat to the West."

Rod reported Nordland from Darnah, and Scott Shane from Washington. Kareem Fahim contributed reporting from Benghazi, Libya.

This article was revised and according to the following correction:

Correction: April 25, 2011

An earlier version of the image caption with this article identified Abdul Hakim al-Hasadi incorrectly as Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda am Qumu.

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The Guantanamo files: Classified files provide new insights in prisoners

WASHINGTON-A treasure trove of more than 700 secret military documents offers new and detailed accounts of men who have made time in the prison of Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, as well as new insights into the evidence against 172 men up there still locked.

The US prison in Guantanamo Bay holds still 172 prisoners, most rated "high risk". This article is based on a huge treasure trove of secret government documents leaked last year for the anti-secrecy organization of WikiLeaks, and to the New York Times from a different source on condition of anonymity made available.Editors and journalists, who edited this article will choose you answer questions about the coverage of the material. Prayed a prisoner in the Guantanamo Bay prison outside his cell in 2007, in an area for the most compatible prisoners.

Military intelligence officials, in reviews of prisoners written from February 2002 until January 2009, its history evaluated and provided insights into the tensions between captors and prisoners. What started as a jury-rigged experiment after the terrorist attacks of 2001 now seems a permanent American institution, and the leaked files, show why setting of bare the patchwork and contradictory evidence, which would never have stand in many cases in criminal court or a military tribunal.

The documents record meticulously the prisoners ' Pocket litter "if it is collected: a Kabul bus ticket, fake passports and forged student ID, a receipt restaurant also a poem. You list the prisoners diseases - hepatitis, tuberculosis, gout and depression. You note their serial interrogations, enumerate - even after six or more years of relentless questioning - remaining "areas of potential use." Describe in mates' infractions - die-cutting waking, apart tear slippers, screaming about cell blocks. And the analysts try to strengthen, it years of the prisoners comments to a different data set the case for further detention.

The secret documents, the New York Times and several other news organizations, show that most of the remaining 172 prisoners as a "high risk" of posing a threat to the United States and their allies, if published without appropriate rehabilitation and oversight have rated. But they show that about a third of the 600 already transmitted also a greater number of prisoners who have - left Cuba on other countries - have been called "High risk" before they were released or handed over to the custody of other Governments.

The documents are largely silent - including sleep deprivation, of loops in stress positions and prolonged exposure to cold temperatures - about the use of harsh interrogation tactics at Guantánamo, moved the global condemnation. Several prisoners, but are as shown, make up false stories about subject to abuse.

The Government basic accusations against many detainees have long public and often from prisoners and their lawyers have been challenged. But the dossiers, prepared under the Bush administration a deeper look at the frightening, if flawed, intelligence, which has the Obama administration, also persuaded, that the prison can not easily be closed.

Prisoners who worried especially counterterrorism officials include some defendants, assassins vowed for Al Qaeda, activists for a cancelled suicide mission and prisoners to their interrogators that she would wreak revenge against America.

The military analysts files offer new information about the berüchtigsten their prisoners, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the planner of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. At some point to March 2002 he ordered a former Baltimore resident, don suicide bomb vest and perform a "martyrdom" attack on Pervez Musharraf, then Pakistan's President, according to the documents. But as the man, Majid only a test Khan, the Pakistani mosque that he had said that Mr Musharraf would visit the assignment proved for his "willingness to die for the cause."

The files show the method of forecast years in the case of a false identity collect intelligence in war zones, or simple accident led to the police buildings innocent men. In May 2003, for example, included Afghan national army of prisoner 1051, an Afghan named Sharbat, close to the scene of a roadside bomb explosion that display documents. He denied involvement, saying that he was a shepherd. Guantanamo de Briefers and analysts agreed, citing its consistent history, his knowledge of animals and his ignorance of "simple military and political concepts," Beware of depending on its assessment. A "enemy combatants" explains still a military tribunal to him anyway, and he was not sent home until 2006.

Obama administration officials condemned the publication of classified documents, obtained last year by the anti-secrecy group of WikiLeaks, however, to the times from a different source. The officials pointed out, that an administration task force set up in January 2009 came the information in the prisoners reviews and in some cases checked at different conclusions. So they said, can the documents of the times published not a current view of the Government of prisoners at Guantanamo is.

See the results in the files:

?Switching 20th hijacker: the best documented case an abusive interrogation methods at Guantanamo survey was the coercive, end of 2002 and early 2003, by Mohammed Qahtani. A Saudi believes man 11 attacks to have been an intended participant in the Sept., Mr Qahtani was sexually humiliated like a dog, and forced to urinate on themselves restricted. His file says, "Although publicly shared entries claim that prisoner was subject to harsh interrogation methods in the early stages of detention," his confessions "appear to be true and are confirmed in the reports from other sources." But claims that it allegedly found made of at least 16 other prisoners have - especially in April and May 2003 - are cited in their files without any reservation.

Charlie Savage reported from Washington, and William Glaberson and Andrew W. lessons from New York. Scott Shane contributed reporting from Washington, and Benjamin Weiser and Andrei Scheinkman from New York.

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THE Guantanamo files: Assessment of prisoners at risk, often with faulty evidence

Relations between waking and prisoners in Guantanamo Bay range from cooperative too dangerous.

WASHINGTON said Mohammed Alam Shah, a 24-year-Afghan, as teenagers, a leg lost, said interrogators in the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, he was conscripted by the Taliban as a driver had before, were imprisoned in 2001. He had caught were he said as he tried, "his to save younger brother of the Taliban.",.

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Military analysts believed him. Mr Shah, which doctors was fitted with a prosthesis of prison, was "cooperative" and "made has 2003 assessment known not thoughts of violence or made threats to the United States or their allies, a sympathetic". Their conclusion: "prisoner represents not a future threat to the United States or U.S. interests."

So in 2004 Mr Shah was - sent back to Afghanistan where he promptly revealed Abdullah Mehsud, a militant Pakistan born, and began plotting mayhem. He admitted jihadist videos, organized a Taliban force against American forces, planned an attack on Pakistan's Minister of the Interior, the 31 people killed, the kidnapping of two Chinese engineers and finally exploded a bomb supervised suicide in 2007, such as the Pakistani army closed. His martyrdom was celebrated in an audio message by none other than Osama bin Laden.

The Guantanamo's analysts complete misinterpretation of Abdullah Mehsud was included hundreds of classified reviews submitted by prisoners in the prison in Cuba, obtained by the New York Times. The unredacted reviews give the fullest public image date from the prisoners in Guantanamo in the past nine years. They show that the United States has hundreds of men for years without trial arrested based on a difficult and remarkably subjective evaluation of who they were, what they had done in the past and what could they do in the future. 704 Evaluation documents use the word "may" 387 times, "unknown" 188 time and "misleading" 85 times.

With judge, the documents of judgments on the legal challenges of prisoners show that the analysts ignored sometimes serious flaws in the evidence - for example, that the information from other pinned their mental illness was made them unreliable. Witnesses who say they saw a prisoner at a camp run by Al Qaeda but omit the witnesses record of falsehood or misidentification quote some reviews. Other government documents showing that the later often abusive treatment or torture statements attributed to have been withdrawn include admissions of prisoners without confirmation.

A growing suspicion

Written between 2002 and 2009, the reviews reflect a growing suspicion of Guantanamo analysts. From the outset, the reports are only one or two pages and often sanguine in tone. Of 2008, are prisoners reviews after searing advertising of released Al-Qaeda prisoners and the reduction of the prison population to hard core, was decidedly more cautiously.

In each case an Abdullah Mehsud - someone incorrectly assessed a minimal threat - there are several cases in which prisoners were rated "high risk" have published and not involved in misconduct. Murat Kurnaz, a German resident of Turkish origin, would be in a review 2006 Member of the Al-Qaeda, in the most dangerous category were addressed: "high risk" and "likely that endanger the United States, their interests and their allies."

Yet American authorities, under pressure from Germany and Turkey, overruled the analysts and Mr Kurnaz home Germany three months later. He joined not the global Jihad, but instead was a prominent critic of the Guantanamo, to write a book and the countless media appearances, which condemned American prison.

Under the most revealing who is leaking documents a 17-page guide for analysts, obviously from military intelligence instructors, how to measure the risk of a prisoner prepared. It lists large clusters of prisoners give, including the so-called dirty 30, the bodyguards were Mr bin Laden, as well as the large group of accused Al Qaeda activists captured with Abu Zubaydah, a key terrorist facilitator, with two guest houses in FaisalabadPakistan, 2002. It nine mosques with Al-Qaeda are associated in Quebec, Milan, London, Yemen and Pakistan.

The guide shows the smallest details such as a potential litmus test for risk taken up as analysts. If a prisoner had a watch Casio F91W, it could be an indication he attended make bombs had given a Qaeda course, where such watches have been - even though this model is sold to this day all over the world. (As well as the review of the Yemeni prisoners suggests a dire use for his calculator: "calculators can be used calculations of indirect fire such as audible warning for artillery fire.")

Caught a prisoner, without travel documents? Mean it could be that he had trained, identification make it more difficult to discard, explains how the Guide. A prisoner who claimed to be a simple farmer or cook in the honey business, or looking for a woman? Stories cover the common Al Qaeda and Taliban were, the analysts said.

And a classic catch 22: "Refusal to cooperate," says in the manual, is a technique, Al Qaeda resistance.

The Guide obviously still the product of years of experience most trying bits proof of different reliability in a conclusion to make. In particular, it is called as a cautionary tale of the early misconception about Abdullah Mehsud, the Pakistani suicide bombers, had claimed he was forced to join the Taliban. He was "an example," in the manual says, "Of a prisoner, the successful military cover story as a means to his release from US custody advertised."

Scott Shane reported from Washington and Benjamin Weiser from New York. Reporting was contributed by Charlie Savage from Washington, and William Glaberson, Andrew W. teachings and Andrei Scheinkman from New York.

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Botched Nazi sub mission in new files revealed

Error of his mission is to do a Nazi u-boot on the United States after a series of missteps, according to newly released files. The ship ran aground in New York City and stole four German agents in the United States. As they buried their supplies on the beach, but he was, a US Coast Guard discovered the German to keep quiet.

A Nazi u-boot-Mission in the United States during the second war, aimed, to unleash a wave of terror ended in farce after through a series of disasters hit, newly released files showed on Monday.

The German bomb planned roads, railways and factories on "Operation Pastorius" in June 1942, according to the files of Britain's MI5 of domestic intelligence agency.

But even before it sank in the way the plot a farce deserves a comedy.

One of the saboteurs, Herbert Haupt, drunk in Paris bar after farewell dinner and declared his drinking companions that he was a spy.

If the u boat in the United States, it ran aground on a sandbank as it sold the four agents on the coast of long Iceland, New York.

A US Coast Guard discovered the German as their supplies to the beach-buried, but he received $300 and persuaded to leave the men alone.

In a report on the mission, Victor Rothschild, head of the Department's MI5 counter-intelligence, wrote: "it was only the laziness or stupidity of the United States Coast Guard, it was not because of United States troops attacked."

The Act was only thwarts, if the leaders of the spies, it was announced, George Dasch, until the FBI, rang a saboteur and demanded, the Bureau Director, j. Edgar Hoover talk.

His confession was initially dismissed, but after a long interview he was arrested and his colleagues were rounded up agents, showed the files.

Despite the slowness of the mission, MI5 considered yet it as a serious threat.

"Apparatus was better equipped with sabotage this sabotage expedition and better educated than the security service has heard all other expeditions of which," Rothschild wrote.

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