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THE DIRTY CHIMP RELEASED THIS SUBHUMAN. ======================================== Manchester to Iraq via Guantànamo: how Jamal al-Harith became Isis’s latest suicide bomber theguardian.com His two-year ordeal at Camp X-ray led to the British-born Jihadi blowing himself up this week on behalf of Islamic State Jamal al-Harith in Kandahar jail in January 2002. Photograph: Banaras Khan/EPA Wednesday 22 February 2017 06.36 EST Last modified on Wednesday 22 February 2017 06.49 EST When US special forces found Jamal al-Harith in a jail in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in January 2002, he said he viewed them as his saviours. But 15 years later, including two spent in Guantànamo Bay, he was to blow himself up in Iraq on behalf of America’s sworn enemies, the Islamic State. According to Harith’s Guantànamo file, US officials decided to ship him to Camp X-ray for the reason that “he was expected to have knowledge of Taliban treatment of prisoners and interrogation tactics”. He was soon to learn even more about US methods. Harith said that during his two years at the US detention camp he was kicked, punched, slapped, deprived of sleep shackled in painful positions, given only meagre rations of water and fed on food marked as up to 12 years past its use-by date. He estimated that he was interrogated about 80 times at Guantànamo, usually by Americans but sometimes by British officials. He was freed in March 2004, almost two years after first being cleared for release. In a statement given nine months later, Harith claimed he had never been involved in any terrorist activity. “The irony is that when I was first told in Afghanistan that I would be in the custody of the Americans,” he said. “I was relieved at that point as I thought that I would then be properly dealt with and returned home without much delay.” FacebookTwitterPinterest Jamal al-Harith Photograph: SITE Intel Group/PAHarith was born Manchester in 1966, and given the name Ronald Fiddler by devout churchgoing parents from Jamaica. In his 20s, he converted to Islam – an effort, his sister said, to find peace after a difficult childhood – and began travelling widely in the Muslim world. In the early 90s, according to the file the Americans compiled on Harith, he had travelled to Sudan in the company of a senior associate of Osama bin Laden. He also told interrogators that he had been to Pakistan, and the Americans suspected he had also been to Saudi Arabia, although he denied it. But it was while backpacking on a return trip to Pakistan in September 2001 that Harith’s troubles began. He told US forces he had paid a lorry driver to to take him to Iran, but he was stopped near the Afghan border by Taliban soldiers. They jailed him as a suspected spy after finding his British passport. After his return to Britain, Harith was paid £60,000 for a joint interview with the Mirror and ITV describing his ordeal. He also launched a compensation claim against the British government that, it was reported, netted him up to £1m. But a decade later, in 2014, and despite his high profile, Harith was able to travel to an Islamic State-controlled region of Syria. His wife told Channel 4 News the following year she and her children had followed him there in a failed bid to persuade him to return home. She said she was only able to escape after paying people smugglers. Last year, a fellow Guantànamo detainee, Ahmed Errachidi, said he was surprised to hear that Harith had gone to join Isis.