Juma Al-Dossary - Meeting With Gordon Brown

Meeting With Gordon Brown

On 2 November 2008 that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown toured the rehabilitation center for former Guantanamo captives, and, while there spoke with al Dossari, Ghanim al Harbi, and other former captives. The former captives received a flat, a job, and 20,000 pounds for a dowry, so they can get married. The Daily Mail report said that Al Dossari was now married.

In 2009, at the inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States, the Associated Press interviewed al-Dossary, who stated that his only wish was that "...Obama was elected years ago. Guantanamo would not have happened".

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