Ex-Guantanamo detainee dies in Syria fighting Assad
A former prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. naval base died fighting for anti-government rebels in Syria, according to an Islamist opposition group which posted a video of his funeral on YouTube.
Moroccan-born Mohammed al Alami, who was released in 2006, is the first former Guantanamo detainee to die in battle in the Syrian civil war, analysts say.
The video, first reported by The Miami Herald, was posted by Harakat Sham al-Islam, one of the Islamist brigades fighting against Syrian President Bashar Assad. It showed the Aug. 5 funeral in which Alami is praised by a rebel leader for enduring "the prison of the Americans in Guantanamo for five years ... where he did not reform or change."
oops.. I thought if he is fighting on Obama's team he would be a good guy?
Alami fought in Afghanistan and was captured in Pakistan after the September 11 attacks.
He was sent to the U.S. detention facility in Cuba on Feb. 2, 2002 "because of his knowledge of Taliban recruitment, training and tactics as well as his possible affiliation with al Qaeda,"
He was repatriated to Morocco on Feb. 7, 2006, the records show.
"Former Guantanamo detainees are held in very high light," said Zelin. "They were imprisoned by Americans and they still kept faith in God and the cause of Jihad. They are viewed as heroes."
,.. charge them as prisoners of war and hold them until aL-queada surrenders..