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July 24, 2006
Spain: "Taliban" Muslim Is Freed
Pictured left is Hamed Abderrahman Ahmed, who was born in Cueta, a Spanish enclave in Morocco in 1974. In 2001, he was captured in Pakistan, and taken to Guantanamo. He was extradited to Spain in February, 2004. On 13 July 2004, after serving four and a half months in detention, the Spanish authorities released him on bail, taking into consideration his "experiences" at Guantanamo.
On Wednesday, October 5 2005, he had been sentenced in the National Court in Madrid to six years' jail, for being a member of Al Qaeda. The prosecutors had sought a sentence of nine years.
During that trial, he professed his innocence, and claimed at one point he was "a martyr" for enduring Guantanamo. He said: "It's destroyed my life."
According to Command Post, quoting an interview that Abderrahman Ahmed gave to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, Spanish consular officials had visited him while he was in Guantanamo.
Abderrahman had been asked: "Is it true that you told the representatives of the Spanish consulate that when they let you go, you wanted to go and fight with the Chechens?"
He had answered: "Yes, but I told them that following advice which was going around among the prisoners at the camp. There we thought that because the Americans were the enemies of the Russians, they would like that story."
Maybe he is stupid for making such a comment, but today, according to Expatica, Hamed Abderrahman Ahmed, known nationally as "the Spanish Taliban", was freed from prison.
The Supreme Court overturned the verdict that had been passed on 5 October last year. The court claimed that there was "a total absence of proof that the defendant was a member of Islamic terrorist group Al Qaeda.
The Supreme Court also ruled that Abderrahman's right to be assumed innocent until proven guilty had been breached.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at July 24, 2006 3:15 PM
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