- "Recent ontdekte documenten tonen aan dat de VS een Duits staatsburger gevangen heeft gehouden in Guantanamo Bay ondanks dat enkele maanden na zijn gevangenneming zijn onschuld was vastgesteld. Murat Kurnaz werd in december 2001 ontvoert in Pakistan en overgeleverd aan Amerikaanse strijdkrachten. Vier weken later was hij één van de eerste gevangenen die in Guantanamo arriveerde, waar hij de komende vier jaar zou doorbrengen.
Gedeclassificeerde documenten laten zien dat Amerikaanse en Duitse inlichtendiensten al in september 2002 hadden geconcludeerd dat hij geen banden had met terrorisme...."

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Prisoner Spent 4 Years at Gitmo Despite Exoneration
Democracy Now!
5-12-07
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/12/5/headlines

Newly-revealed documents show the U.S. held a German prisoner at Guantanamo Bay despite privately acknowledging his innocence just months after his capture. Murat Kurnaz was kidnapped and handed over to U.S. forces in Pakistan in December 2001. Four weeks later he became one of the first prisoners to arrive at Guantanamo—where he would spend the next four years.

Declassified documents show U.S. and German intelligence officials concluded he had no links to terrorism as early as September 2002. A newly-formed military tribunal finally took up his case in 2004. But the panel ignored the intelligence assessments and twice ordered his ongoing imprisonment. During this time Kurnaz says he suffered severe torture.

He says he was beaten, given electric shocks, submerged in water, starved, and chained to a ceiling for days. Kurnaz says he saw several people die and often thought he would die himself. He was finally released in August 2006—nearly five years after his capture.