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Americans kidnap Arabs in Pakistan for interrogation By Robert Fisk KABUL, 9 August — They came for Hussain Abdul Qadir on May 25. According to his wife, there were three US agents from the FBI and 25 men from the local Pakistani CID. The Palestinian family had lived in the Pakistani city of Peshawar for years and had even applied for naturalization. But this was not a friendly visit to their home in Hayatabad Street. "They broke our main gate and came into the house without any respect," Mrs. Abdul Qadir was to report later to the director of human rights at the Pakistani Ministry of Law and Justice in Islamabad. "...They blindfolded my husband and tied his hands behind his back. They searched everything in the house — they took our computer, mobile phone and even our landline phone. They took video and audio cassettes. They took all our important documents — our passports and other certificates and they took our money too." Where, Mrs. Abdul Qadir asked Ahsan Akhtar, the director of human rights, was her husband? The Independent has now learned exactly where he is — he is a prisoner in a cage on the huge American airbase at Bagram in Afghanistan. He was kidnapped — there appears to be no other word for it — by the Americans and simply flown over the international frontier from Pakistan. His "crime" is unknown. He has no lawyers to defend him. In the vacuum of the US "war on terror", Hussain Abdul Qadir has become a non-person. His wife has now received a single sheet of paper from the Red Cross which gives no geographical location for the prisoner but lists his nationality as "Palastainian" (sic) and the following message in poorly written Arabic: "To the family and children in Peshawar. I am well and need, first and foremost, God’s mercy and then your prayers. Take care of your faith and be kind to the little ones. Could you send me my reading glasses?...Your father: Hussain Abdul Qadir." The sheet of paper is date-stamped June 29 and the Red Cross has confirmed that the prisoner — ICRC number AB7 001486-01 — was interviewed in Bagram. Needless to say, the Americans will give no information about their prisoners, the reasons for their detention nor the purpose of bringing them across the international frontier to Afghanistan. They will not say whether their interrogators are Afghan or American — there are increasing rumors that Afghan interrogators are allowed to beat prisoners in the presence of CIA men — nor if, or when they intend to release their captives. Indeed, the Americans will not even confirm that prisoners have been seized in Pakistan and taken across the Afghan border. Fatima Youssef has also complained to the Pakistani authorities that her Syrian husband, Manhal Al-Hariri — a school director working for the Saudi Red Crescent Society — was seized on the same night as Abdul Qadir from their home in Peshawar, again by three Americans and a group of Pakistani CID men. "I have the right to ask where my husband is and to know where they have taken him," she has written to the Pakistani authorities. "I have the right to ask for an appeal to release him now, after an interrogation. I have the right to ask for the return of the things which they took from my house." An Algerian doctor, Bositta Fathi, was also taken that same night by two Americans and Pakistani forces, according to his wife. "I don’t have any support and I am not able to go anywhere without my husband," she has told Akhtar in Islamabad. Both Al-Hariri and Fathi are believed to be held at Bagram, which is now the main American interrogation center in Afghanistan. "From there," one humanitarian worker told the Independent, "you either get released or packed off to Guantanamo. Who knows what the fate of these people is or what they are supposed to have done? It seems that it’s all outside the law." Many Arabs moved to Peshawar during the Afghan war against the Russians and remained there as doctors or aid workers in the years that followed. Hussain Abdul Qadir and his family asked for naturalization in January 1993. Hussain Abdul Qadir holds a Jordanian passport. "I don’t know why all this happened to us," Mrs. Abdul Qadir says. "I want to know about my husband. We will leave Pakistan if the government wants us to leave. We will do anything the government wants but in a human and civilized manner." (The Independent) <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! 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