Reply #16: Cameraman Is Released From Guantánamo [View All]

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“It is yet another case where the U.S. has held someone for years and years and years on the flimsiest of evidence” without filing charges, one of the lawyers, Zachary Katznelson, said Thursday.

Mr. Hajj, 38, was sent with at least two other detainees to his native Sudan on a military aircraft, the lawyers said. The Pentagon declined to comment.

Military officials have insisted that Mr. Hajj was courier of terrorism money and said all detainees were treated humanely at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

The case did not draw the attention among American journalists that some of them said it deserved, in part because Mr. Hajj’s full life story was not known. As with most Guantánamo detainees, the Pentagon’s evidence against him was largely secret.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/us/nationalspecial3/02gitmo.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin