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Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.〔 〕〔 〕 His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 043. The Department of Defense reports Moqbel was born on December 1, 1977, in Taiz, Yemen. On April 15, 2013, the New York Times published an Op-ed by Moqbel titled "Gitmo is killing me". In it he described that he would not eat "until they restore my dignity." He wrote that he had lost 30 pounds and described how it feels being force fed. "As it was thrust in, it made me feel like throwing up. I wanted to vomit, but I couldn't," Moqbel wrote. "There was agony in my chest, throat and stomach. I had never experienced such pain before. I would not wish this cruel punishment upon anyone."〔 〕 His Op-Ed stirred wide commentary.〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕 ==Background== Moqbel arrived at Guantanamo on January 11, 2002, and has been held at Guantanamo for .〔 〕 In the Op-Ed Moqbel described traveling to Afghanistan to look for work, as he only earned $50 USD per month in Yemen.〔 He said he was misled, could not find work in Afghanistan. He denied any association with terrorism.〔〔 Historian Andy Worthington noted that Moqbel mocked the extensive justifications offered for his detention, that he had been an Osama bin Laden bodyguard; that he had travelled all over Afghanistan – when he had only arrived in Afghanistan a month prior to his capture.〔 〕 In his April 2013 Op-ed Moqbel described what it was like to be force-fed at Guantánamo Bay.〔 Glen Greenwald, writing in ''The Guardian'', praised the ''New York Times'' for publishing Moqbel's Op-Ed, which he described as one of the most powerful his readers would ever read.〔 〕 The ''Daily Mail'' repeated Moqbel's description that the force-feedings he was being made to endure had triggered him pain never experienced before. "I would not wish this cruel punishment upon anyone." Moqbel wrote: "I will never forget the first time they passed the feeding tube up my nose. I can’t describe how painful it is to be force-fed this way. As it was thrust in, it made me feel like throwing up. I wanted to vomit, but I couldn’t."〔 〕 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「Samir Naji Al Hasan Moqbel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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