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A Syrian-Kurd, Abd Al-Rahim Abdul Rassak al-Janko (عبدالرحیم عبدالرزاق الجنکو) was a student in the United Arab Emirates who traveled to Afghanistan in 2000, where he was captured by the Taliban who announced that he had confessed to plotting to murder Osama bin Laden, as well as spying against the Taliban on behalf of Israel and the United States.〔 He was also denounced for "his sexual indiscretions with other young men" and accused of homosexuality. Following the Invasion of Afghanistan, al-Janko begged a British journalist to alert the Americans that he had been held prisoner by the Taliban for two years; however he was taken from the Taliban prison by American forces, and sent to the Guantanamo Bay detention camps where he spent seven years in detention.〔〔 〕 When a videotape of al-Janko's 2000 interrogation on charges of sodomy and espionage against the Taliban〔(Detainee Assessement Brief ISN 489 )〕〔 was discovered by American forces in the rubble of Mohammed Atef's house; the Bush administration released the video, which showed al-Janko breaking down in tears, but stripped the tape of its audiotrack and falsely declared that it was a "martyrdom video", claiming that al-Janko spoke of dying as a martyr following the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. Although the Department of internally acknowledged the video to be his filmed interrogation by the Taliban, the American government publicly continued labelling it as a "martyrdom" recording, and added al-Janko to the FBI Seeking Information - War on Terrorism list.〔 〕 Amnesty International condemned the use of a video showing al-Janko being interrogated by militants as proof of his association with them as "kafkaesque".〔Parker, Tom, "(Obama Embracing Bush Legacy )," ''Human Rights Now Blog'', 1 July 2009.〕 While held at Guantanamo, his captors noted that "as a result of his () imprisonment, () could not have participated in hostilities against US and Coalition forces", and noted that "it is unlikely () would ever ever be trusted by an Islamic militant group", but tribunals nevertheless repeated classified him as an "enemy combatant".〔 Medical staff also wrote that he suffered from depression, had attempted suicide, and was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder; the United States thus assessed him as a "high threat from a detention perspective" and noted that he had 112 discipline infractions in his file for throwing food, failing to follow instructions, exposing his sexual organs and possession of food contraband.〔 Al-Janko maintains that the BPD diagnosis was intended to mask his Post-traumatic Stress Disorder arising from his mistreatment and captivity by the Taliban and United States.〔 On June 20, 2008 he became the first Guantanamo detainee to demand in a U.S. federal court that the military show evidence that justified his detention〔 (mirror ) 〕 The judge ruled that the American argument in favour of holding al-Janko in continued captivity "defies common sense".〔(Huffingtonpost.com )〕 He was quietly released by the United States in 2009, after seven years' captivity, and is currently living in Antwerpen, Belgium.〔 〕 ==Life prior to imprisonment== Al-Janko was born in Turkey, the fourth son of 11 children,〔(Complaint for Damages )〕 and was four years old when his Kurdish parents were killed by Turkish troops in 1980.〔 He was subsequently taken to Syria by his stepparents for the next ten years, before his Salafist stepfather took a teaching position in Ajman, UAE in 1990, and his stepmother and siblings brought him to Ajman a couple years later.〔 al-Janko attended Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in the Emirates from 1998–2000, studying law and literature, together with Faiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari and Abd Al Aziz Sayer Uwain Al Shammeri.〔 Al-Jenko told interrogators he was invited to a college party at a local hotel however, by Prince Fisal Sudid Qasmi, before he left. He says that when he arrived, group sex was underway and he participated in the orgy; but Qasim later blackmailed him, threatening to expose the videotape to his stepfather or the media, unless al-Janko would agree to spy on professors and students advocating travel for jihad.〔〔(Wired.com )〕 He later retracted this statement as being coerced under torture, and dismissed his admissions of drug addiction, homosexuality and spying as all being false.〔 al-Janko later told his lawyers he ended up in Afghanistan after running away from his "strict Muslim ()father".〔〔 whom he complained was "controlling, abusive and violent" and "ran away" six months after the alleged blackmail began,〔 telling interrogators that he had unsuccessfully spoken to the embassies of Canada, Syria and the United States, seeking an opportunity to leave the Emirates behind, but eventually colleagues at the Mosab bin Omer Center, in the Mishref neighbourhood of Ajman, convinced him he could travel to Afghanistan by simply posing as an illegal Afghan migrant worker in the UAE, and then apply to Western countries for asylum as an Afghan refugee.〔〔 al-Janko claims he successfully impersonated an illegal worker, and successfully got himself "deported" to Afghanistan at the expense of the Emirati government.〔 In Afghanistan, al-Janko used the name ''Dujana al-Kurdi'', and spent 18–45 days at Al Farouq training camp, where he claims to have spent his time doing "menial chores" such as chopping wood, cleaning weapons and hauling water,〔 until a commander named al-Saidi turned him over to Atef and Saif al-Adl at the Ghulam Bachi safehouse on suspicion he was a spy.〔 Al-Janko maintains this was likely because the day he was ordered to prepare to fight on the front lines, he requested permission to leave the camp, fearing for his safety.〔 Other parts of his life, such as allegations his stepfather was a terrorist, that he was working as a spy for the governments of Israel, the United States or UAE were suspected of simply "trying to please his interrogators" or "protect his family members from...retribution".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abd Al Rahim Abdul Rassak Janko」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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