Ahmad Tourson is part of the small group of Chinese Uighur minority - Muslim, Turkic-speaking - or twenty-two men in total were arrested by mistake in late 2001, Afghanistan. Although eventually cleared of all charges of terrorism by the U.S. administration, they spent several years in Guantanamo. Five of them are still there, the Supreme Court of the United States having rejected Monday, April 18, their action.
Ahmad Tourson him, was released on 1 November 2009, he was greeted with five of his fellow inmates, the archipelago of Palau in the Pacific Ocean, local authorities committing to give the Exiles the necessary assistance (housing, education, learning English, medical care, housing, etc..), to ensure their integration.
Three other countries - Switzerland (two ex-convicts), Albania (five) and Bermuda (four) - have done the same. Among the reports of U.S. interrogation revealed by Wikileaks and consulted by Le Monde, one of Ahmad Tourson, dated January 7, 2005, has a peculiarity. The Uighur detainee, number 201, born January 1, 1971 in the province of Xinjiang, China, was amputated left leg, "below the knee, just before his transfer to the U.S.
base on the island of Cuba. During the first three years of his detention, Ahmad was examined Tourson eighty-five once the medical team at the military base. He has made "great progress" in the use of his prosthesis, is do we. Considered an "average value" for intelligence, not having a "low threat" for "U.S.
interests and allies," the inmate legged Nevertheless, in early 2005 considered an "enemy combatant". In September 2000, in China, "while in line to get a job," Tourson Ahmad was arrested by Chinese police. The reason for this inquiry remains "unclear". The young man, married with two children, decided to leave the country.
He won, by taxi, nearby Kyrgyzstan, then, by air, Pakistan - where he joined the Islamic Movement of East Turkestan (ETIM), listed among "terrorist groups" and "anti-US". He eventually joined by bus, Afghanistan: he moved to Kabul in a "guest house" which houses hundreds of his fellow Uighurs, members, like him, the ETIM.
He remained there until October 2001 and works as a clerk: it "puts the information into the computer dictated to him." The fact that he brought his family with him in Kabul in early 2001, will be considered by some U.S. interrogators, as "an indication of a significant rank" among the members of the ETIM.
The inmate, he said they received "two days of military training on small arms" before being sent "to the front", when the U.S. military began bombing Afghanistan. Before the fighting intensified, Ahmad Tourson fled with others to Konduz, by road. The vehicle was arrested by the forces of General Dostum (warlord Afghan President Hamid Karzai's close).
Ahmad Tourson is thrown in jail in Mazar-e Sharif, among hundreds of other fighters or supposed. A violent revolt broke out inside the prison, Ahmad Tourson is seriously injured - which lead to the partial amputation of his left leg. Rescued by the Red Cross, the young Uighur will be delivered to U.S.
forces - who transfer to Guantanamo January 21, 2002. After the initial interrogation, Ahmad Tourson is identified as having a role of "coach" and "officer" within the camp of the Uighur fighters in the mountains of Tora Bora. After cross-checking and research, the U.S. administration recognizes that no documents that substantiate the accusations could not be found.
Despite recommendations made by the officers of the military base "release or transfer to another country where he will be detained," the one-legged Guantanamo has spent nearly eight years locked up in Cuba. Before flying to other islands, Palau, where he lives "free", but he could probably never leave.
Catherine Simon 
Ahmad Tourson him, was released on 1 November 2009, he was greeted with five of his fellow inmates, the archipelago of Palau in the Pacific Ocean, local authorities committing to give the Exiles the necessary assistance (housing, education, learning English, medical care, housing, etc..), to ensure their integration.
Three other countries - Switzerland (two ex-convicts), Albania (five) and Bermuda (four) - have done the same. Among the reports of U.S. interrogation revealed by Wikileaks and consulted by Le Monde, one of Ahmad Tourson, dated January 7, 2005, has a peculiarity. The Uighur detainee, number 201, born January 1, 1971 in the province of Xinjiang, China, was amputated left leg, "below the knee, just before his transfer to the U.S.
base on the island of Cuba. During the first three years of his detention, Ahmad was examined Tourson eighty-five once the medical team at the military base. He has made "great progress" in the use of his prosthesis, is do we. Considered an "average value" for intelligence, not having a "low threat" for "U.S.
interests and allies," the inmate legged Nevertheless, in early 2005 considered an "enemy combatant". In September 2000, in China, "while in line to get a job," Tourson Ahmad was arrested by Chinese police. The reason for this inquiry remains "unclear". The young man, married with two children, decided to leave the country.
He won, by taxi, nearby Kyrgyzstan, then, by air, Pakistan - where he joined the Islamic Movement of East Turkestan (ETIM), listed among "terrorist groups" and "anti-US". He eventually joined by bus, Afghanistan: he moved to Kabul in a "guest house" which houses hundreds of his fellow Uighurs, members, like him, the ETIM.
He remained there until October 2001 and works as a clerk: it "puts the information into the computer dictated to him." The fact that he brought his family with him in Kabul in early 2001, will be considered by some U.S. interrogators, as "an indication of a significant rank" among the members of the ETIM.
The inmate, he said they received "two days of military training on small arms" before being sent "to the front", when the U.S. military began bombing Afghanistan. Before the fighting intensified, Ahmad Tourson fled with others to Konduz, by road. The vehicle was arrested by the forces of General Dostum (warlord Afghan President Hamid Karzai's close).
Ahmad Tourson is thrown in jail in Mazar-e Sharif, among hundreds of other fighters or supposed. A violent revolt broke out inside the prison, Ahmad Tourson is seriously injured - which lead to the partial amputation of his left leg. Rescued by the Red Cross, the young Uighur will be delivered to U.S.
forces - who transfer to Guantanamo January 21, 2002. After the initial interrogation, Ahmad Tourson is identified as having a role of "coach" and "officer" within the camp of the Uighur fighters in the mountains of Tora Bora. After cross-checking and research, the U.S. administration recognizes that no documents that substantiate the accusations could not be found.
Despite recommendations made by the officers of the military base "release or transfer to another country where he will be detained," the one-legged Guantanamo has spent nearly eight years locked up in Cuba. Before flying to other islands, Palau, where he lives "free", but he could probably never leave.
Catherine Simon
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