Sami Elhag Journalist, ex-Guantanamo Inmate: I was a victim of US foreign policy

Sami Elhag's life changed drastically on December 15, 2001. On that last day of the Ramadhan fasting month, at the Pakistani town of Chaman, Al Jazeera cameraman Elhag was arrested by the Pakistani military just when he was about to cross the border into Afghanistan to cover the American war against the Taliban. The Pakistani authorities later turned him over to the Americans. Elhag, 48, was accused of being a member of the local militia. Much la

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