News from Al-Madinah: The US captive in Cuba released him on Saturday, according to the Pakistani Foreign Ministry, making him the largest detainee at the Guantanamo site.
During the “war initiated in the wake of the September 11 attacks, which were carried out by al-Qaeda in 2001,” American forces once imprisoned hundreds of accused individuals in the US Secret Military Prison.
Saif Allah Parasha, a businessman, was detained in Thailand in 2003 and charged with funding a jihadist group despite his denials of guilt and claims that he had no ill will against the United States.
Parasha, 75 or 76, was not officially charged, as are the majority of the detainees at Guantanamo, and was not given enough legal protection to fight his detention.
In a statement released on Saturday, the Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that it “had concluded a collaborative effort between many agencies to facilitate Parace’s repatriation. We are pleased that a detained Pakistani national has now reached his family.”
Parasha was freed after US President Joe Biden agreed to release him together with 55-year-old Pakistani Abdel-Rabbani and 41-year-old Yemenian Othman Abdul Rahim Othman last year.
After completing her studies there, Parasha worked in the import and export industry, supplying the country’s largest merchants.
He was charged with interacting with key members of al-Qaeda, including as Osama bin Laden and Khaled Sheikh Muhammad, by American investigators. In 2008, Parace’s lawyer said that the businessman met bin Laden in 1999, and again after a year, to discuss the production of a TV program. The UK -based Ryberv Charitable Organization described Parace as “a prisoner forever.
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The largest Guantanamo inmates were released…
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