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Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed Al Sawah is a citizen of Egypt currently held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.〔 〕 He has been charged with war crimes, but those charges were dismissed.〔 〕〔 〕 Tariq El-Sawah's charges were dismissed on March 1, 2012. 〔 〕 According to the ''Egypt Independent'' formerly secret documents, drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo, and published by the whistleblower organization WikiLeaks in 2011, contradicted the charges al-Sawah had faced.〔 〕 ==Background== Al Sawah was one of the few captives who acknowledged having fought in conflicts like the Bosnian civil war in Yugoslavia that lead to Bosnian independence.〔 Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed al Sawah arrived at the Guantanamo detention camps on May 5, 2002, and has been held there for .〔 (mirror ) 〕〔 〕 ''The Long War Journal'' reports al Sawah joined the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in 1981.〔 〕 They report that he was rounded up in the large round-up of Muslim Brotherhood members following the assassination of Anwar Sadat. ''The Long War Journal'' reports that Al Sawah, was a very skilled bomb-maker, who had been trained by Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah, the bomb-maker who developed the bomb used against the .〔 They reported he had invented an early model of shoe-bomb in the summer of 2001; that he developed new models of magnetic limpet-mines. However, the FBI found that claims of El Sawah's explosive expertise were the result of novice military interrogators jumping to improper conclusions.〔 〕 〔 〕 Tom Dale, writing for the Egyptian Independent found that there was a "disregard for both fact and coherence on the part of U.S. interrogators." 〔 It is reported that "much of the information given by Guantanamo detainees was confessed under Pentagon-mandated torture," and in the case of El-Sawah, "several former Guantanamo commanders had indicated that El-Sawah was not a threat and recommended his release." 〔 〕 The ''Washington Post'' reports that Al Sawah and Mohamedou Ould Slahi were held in a separate compound, where they were extended extra privileges, as they had both chosen to cooperate with intelligence officials.〔 〕 In August 2012 Al Sawah was the last Egyptian captives in Guantanamo.〔〔 〕 Al Sawah was seriously wounded by a cluster bomb, prior to apprehension.〔 He gained over 200 pounds during his first four years of detention.〔 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「Tariq al-Sawah」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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