Saturday, March 04, 2006
"One detainee, identified in the documents as Ali Abdul Motalib Hassan al-Tayeea, said he was born in Iraq, suffered under Saddam Hussein and at one point was imprisoned because he was a Shiite Muslim. He told a tribunal in Cuba that he joined the Taliban in Afghanistan as a driver 20 days before Sept. 11, 2001, because he needed work. "I have never been an enemy of America. I'd like to be a United States person. I'd like to be an American person," Tayeea said, declaring that he hates the Taliban and al-Qaeda. "If I saw Usama Bin Laden, I'd kill him.""