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April 18, 2006
Uganda: Islamist Is Released
News from AKI reports that a suspected al-Qaeda suspect, who has been in prison in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and detained in Guantanamo Bay, has been freed by the authorities in Kampala. The Ugandan authorities could find to reason to keep him in detention.
27-year old Jamal Kiyemba, who came originally from Catholic family in Uganda, was captured in Pakistan in March 2002, suspected of membership of al-Qaeda. He had been a member of the Taliban, which he had joined in Pakistan. He had converted to Islam in 2000.
After his parents divorced and is father was killed in a road accident, he arrived in London in 1998, to join his mother and sisters and brothers who had migrated there. He went to a Catholic school, and then studied pharmacy at University.
Kiyemba told Uganda's Anglophone newspaper New Vision: "This is the first time I am free since 2002", He thanked Muslims in Uganda and elsewhere for praying for him, and said the Ugandan security had been good to him in detention.
He said: "Being in Guantanamo Bay taught me one thing: to be patient and to put my trust in God."
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at April 18, 2006 6:10 PM
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