Friday, April 24, 2009

Grenade accident kills Yemen Gitmo detainee's sons


http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hj_VEag9J7Nz_r_N9uq6Ng3hBMqAD97ODIVO1

SAN'A, Yemen (AP) — The two young sons of a Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo died when a grenade they were playing with accidentally detonated inside their home, a human rights lawyer and the detainee's brother said Thursday.

The two boys were the sons of Guantanamo prisoner #1463, Abdelsalam al-Hilah, a businessman who was captured in Cairo in 2002 and sent to Guantanamo on charges of terrorism, said Ahmed Irman of the Hood Organization for Defending Human Rights, an organization that advocates for Guantanamo detainees in Yemen.

The children, Youssef, 11, and Omar, 10, were playing unsupervised with the grenade in a room in the house when it exploded. It is unclear why the grenade was in the house.

Hmm, "unclear".  Perhaps, their father, the "businessman", didn't have time to clean up his toys before he was unavoidably detained during his last "business" meeting.

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