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Hephaestion
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 Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:33 pm Post subject: Afghan journalist: arrested coz of Cdn soldiers |
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| Quote: | An Afghan freelance journalist recently freed after spending 11 months in a U.S. military prison undergoing harsh interrogation said Wednesday he was arrested at the suggestion of the Canadian forces.
"It was Canadians who told them I was a risk," said Javed Yazamy, known by the nickname Jojo among western journalists in Afghanistan.
Yazamy was unexpectedly set free Sunday after being arrested on Oct. 26, 2007, at Kandahar Airfield, the main coalition base in the southern province. He had been declared an enemy combatant by U.S. authorities and was held both at Kandahar and at the main U.S. military base at Bagram, near Kabul.
A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition said Monday that Yazamy was handed over to Afghan authorities because he was no longer considered a threat, although no specific reason was ever given for his arrest.
Yazamy worked primarily as a cameraman for CTV but was often hired on a day-by-day basis by other Canadian reporters based at Kandahar Airfield.
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Although Yazamy made no mention of the alleged Canadian involvement in his arrest in initial interviews after his release, he now says that his American interrogators told him that it was Canadians who fingered him.
He said his captors told him: "We were informed by Canada that you were a risk for us" and "we were told by Canada you were a risk and that you should be banned from (Kandahar Airfield)."
A Canadian military spokesman said the Canadian Forces were aware of Yazamy's accusations and looking for more information into what happened.
Yazamy acknowledged that in his journalistic work he had occasional contact with the Taliban. But he denies that he collaborated with them.
"I am innocent," he said.
Yazamy, who once interpreted for the U.S. military, said the Americans would have no reason of their own to pick him up.
"Americans know me better than Canadians. They know I'm not a risk." |
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sandy47
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Location: London, ON.
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First, are his US jailers reliable informants? Can he just take their word for who turned him in? 2) Would the Americans throw their partners in crime under the bus just to get leverage on someone they'd rather not waterboard? Not that Canucks wouldn't turn anybody over to the Yanks. If our freedom's 'protectors' will do it to us, they'll do it to anyone.
So many questions... so little deniability.
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