Abdullah Al Kandari with his family 2 |
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Abdullah Kamal Al Kandari |
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Abdullah Al Kandari with his family 3 |
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Sisters Layla and Dina Al Kandari chat about the last time they saw their brother, Abdullah Kamal Abdullah Kamal Al Kandari. |
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'I want to meet my daddy,' says two-year-old Fatma Al Kandari, whose father has been in prison in Guantanamo since before she was born. |
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Abdullah Kamal Al Kandari, Kuwaiti detainee in Guantanamo |
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Fatma Al Kandari, 2, passes out yellow ribbons of hope to family members of those imprisoned by the U.S. Government in Guantanamo. |
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Abdullah Al Kandari with his family |
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Fatma Al Kandari, 2, hands a yellow ribbon of hope to Khalid Al Odah, far right, head of the Kuwaiti Family Committee |
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Letters:
In a Red Cross letter, he wrote,
Writing from the US Base Kandahar
Background:
Born in 1973, Abdullah is the father of four young children. He is a mechanical technician and earned his diploma at the Kuwaiti Electricity and Water Institute. He puts aside money from every month's paycheck to give to charity, and his family is committed to fostering orphans abroad. In 2001 he traveled to the Afghani-Pakistani border to help in the refugee relief. He contacted his family to describe the horrible condition of the detainees and how he was able to cooperate with the local humanitarian agencies. The last time he called was in October of 2001, saying that the situation was crazy and the borders were closed so that he could not leave. His family says that "At that time all Arab citizens were wanted, whether they were warriors or members of relief agencies. The Arabs gathered in places where they thought they would be safe and tried to seek assistance of villagers on their way back across the borders. Unfortunately the villagers sold them and handed them over to the Pakistani authorities who in turn handed them over to the Americans." Abdullah is still in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and has not seen his new baby.
In his letters he has mentioned his frail and eldery grandfather, expressing fears that he will not see him again
He has four children, one a daughter he has never seen
The entire Kamel family now lives under one roof, trying to save money to help Abdullah. His brother, Mansoor said, "We are willing to sell everything just to get him back. We think about my brother more than anything else. We all live in one house with our parents and we are very, very close now. So losing a member of our family like this is too much. It's like a part of the house is missing."
In one of his letters he wrote a copy of his will and testament.
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