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Detained, Beaten, and Tortured In Name of 'War on Terror': Six years in Guantanamo

Sami al-Haj, an Al-Jazeera cameraman who was released from U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay and returned home to Sudan early Friday after six years of imprisonment, sits with his son Mohammed, 7, left, in a hospital in Khartoum, Sudan, Friday, May 2, 2008. Al-Haj was the only journalist from a major international news organization held at Guantanamo and many of his supporters saw his detention as punishment for a network whose broadcasts angered U.S. officials.

Sami al-Haj walks with pain on his steel crutch; almost six years in the nightmare of Guantanamo have taken their toll on the Al Jazeera journalist and, now in the safety of a hotel in the small Norwegian town of Lillehammer, he is a figure of both dignity and shame. The Americans told him they were sorry when they eventually freed him this year - after the beatings he says he suffered, and the force-feeding, the humiliations and interrogations by British, American and Canadian intelligence officers - and now he hopes one day he'll be able to walk without his stick.