The New York Times
Time Runs Out for an Afghan Held by the U.S.
By CARLOTTA GALL and ANDY WORTHINGTON
KABUL, Afghanistan — Abdul Razzaq Hekmati was regarded here as a war hero, famous for his resistance to the Russian occupation in the 1980s and later for a daring prison break he organized for three opponents of the Taliban government in 1999.
But in 2003, Mr. Hekmati was arrested by American forces in southern Afghanistan when, senior Afghan officials here contend, he was falsely accused by his enemies of being a Taliban commander himself. For the next five years he was held at the American military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he died of cancer on Dec. 30.
Thanks for checking in with us Andy!
Keep up the great work. Someone has to keep these stories alive and we are grateful that you are doing that for all of us.
Thanks for picking up on the article. I’m one of the co-authors. Please visit my website for further articles about Guantanamo, and for information about my book “The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison”: http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/
With best wishes,
Andy