Algerian Guantanamo detainee accused of working for UK and Canada intelligence

An Algerian Guantanamo detainee accused of bombing two Christian churches and a luxury hotel in Pakistan in 2002 was working for British intelligence, according to secret files on detainees who were shipped to the US military's Guantánamo Bay prison camp.

• Adil Hadi al Jazairi Bin Hamlili, described as a “facilitator, courier, kidnapper, and assassin for al-Qaida”, was detained in Pakistan in 2003 and later sent to Guantánamo Bay.
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• After his capture in June 2003 Hamlili was transferred to Bagram detention centre, north of Kabul, where he underwent numerous “custodial interviews” with CIA personnel.
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• They found him “to have withheld important information from the Canadian Secret Intelligence Service and British Secret Intelligence Service … and to be a threat to US and allied personnel in Afghanistan and Pakistan”.
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• In the 1980s, he fought the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
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• The Obama adminstration on Monday condemned the release of the Guantanamo documents, claiming they had been obtained illegally through WikiLeaks.
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• This comes while a court in Algiers acquitted Hamlili and Zmirli Ahcen in April. They were prosecuted for working for a terrorist group operating abroad.