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A US official has suspended the imprisonment of a former Baltimore resident who confessed to becoming Al Qaeda courier, st Ministry of Defense announced Friday.
Last October, U.S. military jury Majid Khan was sentenced to 26 years in prison since he first pleaded guilty to war crimes on February 28, 2012. Khan pleaded guilty to delivering $ 50,000 from the Pakistan branch of al-Qaeda, which used funds to blow up a Marriott hotel in Indonesia in 2003 and kill about 12 people.
American flag behind barbed wire fence at Guantanamo.
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All this is now changing after military commissioner Jeffrey D. Wood followed the military commission’s recommendations and reduced Khan’s sentence to ten years, meaning his sentence will end on March 1 and Khan will soon be released from Guantanamo.
“In accordance with the change from 2021 to the initial pre-trial agreement from 2012, the convocation body agreed to reduce the sentence to 11-14 years,” – said the Ministry of Defense. “In addition, Mr. Khan received a one-year suspended sentence from a military judge in the case.”
As for where Khan will end up, this question remains unanswered. He is one of 38 detainees now in Guantanamo. Under current law, detainees at Guantanamo cannot be deported to the United States. Lawyer Han J. Wells Dixon has called on the Biden administration to “immediately transfer it to a safe third country”, according to The New York Times.
Flags are hoisted at the Justice Camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in honor of U.S. servicemen and other victims killed in the terrorist attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Khan is also a Pakistani citizen, but his lawyers have concluded that he cannot be sent there because his life could be in danger after his guilty plea made him a witness for the US government.
“There is no reason to continue to detain Majid Khan at Guantanamo,” Dixon was quoted as saying by the Times. “The United States should send him to a safe third country where he can meet his wife and daughter, whom he has never met.”
Last October, Khan offered details a military juror about his treatment by the CIA, saying at the time, “I thought I was going to die.” Khan claimed that he was hung from the ceiling naked and doused with cold water to keep him awake. He also described cases of being close to death, telling jurors that his head was kept under water to such an extent that he nearly drowned.
After the charges, more than half of the jurors, who heard Khan’s remarks, sent a letter to the convocation and asked him to pardon.
In this photo of April 17, 2019, viewed by U.S. military officials, the control tower is visible through barbed wire in Camp VI detention center at Guantanamo Naval Base, Cuba.
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The 38 remaining Guantanamo detainees include 20 who have received permission to repatriate or relocate to the review commission.
Earlier this week, the defense ministry announced that the Saudi prisoner was in Guantanamo The ICU, which was suspected of trying to join The robbers 9/11 was sent back home to be treated for mental illness.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
