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Media: Moazzam Begg In Conversation with Binyam Mohamed

In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the subsequent US-led 'War on Terror', hundreds of Muslim men were handed over by various countries to US intelligence. One of these men was Binyam Mohamed, a British resident of Ethiopian origin, who had gone to Afghanistan and Pakistan to rediscover his faith in Islam and to find a way to kick a noxious drug habit in the process. Binyam succeeded in both but in ways he could never have imagined. He was sold over by Pakistani authorities for a bounty and subsequently remained in US secret facilities and military detention sites for over seven years. On 23rd February 2009 he became the first - and thus far only - Guantanamo prisoner to be released under the Obama administration. Finally returned to the UK Binyam has spoken of his torturous ordeal in two high-profile interviews. However, in this exclusive conversation with Cageprisoners' spokesman, Moazzam Begg, Binyam discusses the cases of people still held in US detention camps - including that of Aafia Siddiqui - and the role faith played during his in incarceration