05 January 2012
By ELAINE CASSEL Monday, Nov. 07, 2005 Ahmed Abu Ali is an American – a resident of Falls Church, Virginia. In the summer of 2003, Abu Ali was taking final exams in a Saudi Arabian university, and looking forward to returning home to his family in Northern Virginia for the summer. But Abu Ali did [...]
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05 January 2012
Ahmed Abu Ali is not in a foreign prison or at Guantanamo; he is in a supermax prison in Colorado. May 12, 2010 | A version of this piece first appeared in The Hoya, Georgetown University’s newspaper. My brother, Ahmed Abu Ali, has spent the past five years in solitary confinement, under 23-hour lockdown, in [...]
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07 May 2010
Prison authorities at the Florence ADX Supermax prison turned down Ahmed’s request to read President Obama’s books The Audacity of Hope and Dreams from My Father on the grounds that they contained material “potentially detrimental to national security”. “Joshua Dratel, a lawyer acting for the prisoner, has complained that Abu Ali is being imprisoned [...]
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09 January 2012
Background An American citizen born in Houston Texas, Ahmed Abu-Ali was detained at the behest of the United States government while studying in Saudi Arabia. No arrest warrant was issued by a neutral magistrate to ensure that there was probable cause to believe that he had committed a crime before arresting him during his exam. [...]
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23 January 2012
“All Praise is due to Allah, Lord of the Universe, the Most Merciful, the Especially Merciful, Master of the Day of Judgment. I thank Allah for His countless bounties, His never ending grace, and peace be upon all His messengers and prophets, especially Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus the Son of Mary, and the last and [...]
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23 January 2012
Ahmed testified that on the first day, his interrogators asked him whether he knew specific people and whether he knew about bombings in Riyadh. At one point, his blindfold was taken off. Abu Ali said he then saw the bruised face of a man through a window in the door to the room. The man [...]
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