A Letter About Suicide
A letter Al Dossari wrote on April 18, 2007 was cleared by DoD censors on May 20, 2007. In the letter Al Dossari wrote:
"I swear to God, if I have the opportunity I would end my life,"
Colangelo-Bryan described Al Dossari as "coherent" but "utterly exhausted and desperate".
Pentagon spokesman Jeffrey D. Gordon denied that al Dossary had been mistreated. He asserted that al Qaeda trained its operatives to claim abuse while incarcerated. According to the Associated Press Simpson said:
"This tactic is used in order to gain public sympathy in the hopes that they may be released,"
Read more about this topic: Juma Al-Dossary
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