Yassar Talal Al-Zharani, R.I.P.

Gary Leupp, www.dissidentvoice.or

Yassar Talal Al-Zahrani killed himself June 10, hanging himself in his cell in the "professionally run, humane facility" in Guantanamo. Yassar was a 17-year-old boy when US forces in Afghanistan captured him in 2001. He was a Saudi who had gone to Afghanistan to fight with the Taliban, which at that time ruled most of Afghanistan, against the Northern Alliance forces who had ruled Afghanistan from 1993 to 1996. He followed in the footsteps of thousands of Saudis who would never have found themselves in Central Asia had the United States not made it a policy to send them there to fight "communism" in the 1980s...

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