Here's a suggestion. Send him to the nearest ACLU office. I'm sure they'd be happy to have him.
Yemeni Languishes at Guantanamo Long After U.S. Approved Release
SANAA, Yemen -- The word came in May 2006: Ali Mohammed Nasser Mohammed, a slight, 24-year-old Yemeni with curly black hair and a wispy beard, would be freed from Guantanamo after more than four years. He got a checkup. His photo was taken, as were his fingerprints. He was measured for clothes and shoes, then offered a meeting with the Red Cross.Perhaps the rueful Rayner can set up shop in some wonderful worker's paradise such as Cuba or Venezuela, and she can put him up.
As the Pentagon tersely put it later in an e-mail to his attorneys: "Your client has been approved to leave Guantanamo."
"He never went home," said Martha Rayner, one of the lawyers.
In the legal netherworld that the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has represented since it was opened in 2002, Mohammed, once a cook for the Taliban in Afghanistan, remains stuck in a limbo of mistaken identities, bureaucratic inertia and official neglect. In the eyes of his lawyers, the young Yemeni's case is an indictment of a system, still cloaked in the strictest secrecy and largely beyond accountability, in which a man who faces no charge and no sentence remains deprived of the freedom he was granted more than a year ago.
"It's a lovely illustration of what happens when there's no oversight of the jailer," said a rueful Rayner.
Just before he was to depart on May 18 of last year, on a flight that carried 15 Saudis home, Mohammed was left off the plane for a simple reason: The Saudi government said he was not Saudi, even though he was born there. Under Yemeni and Saudi law, he is Yemeni, by virtue of his parents' citizenship. He carries a Yemeni passport, grew up in Yemen and went to school in Sanaa, the capital, where his parents live.Oh well. Maybe he never should have taken that job as a "cook" for the Taliban.
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