Ex-Gitmo detainee sentenced in Morocco

Published: Nov. 17, 2008 at 11:00 AM

RABAT, Morocco, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- A former Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainee has been sentenced to 10 years in prison by a court in his native Morocco, officials said Monday.

Said Boujadia, 39, who spent seven years in the U.S. prison camp as a suspected terrorist and was returned to Morocco, was found guilty of plotting to sabotage foreign interests in Morocco, the Med Basin Newsline reported.

Med Basin quoted the official Moroccan news agency MAP as saying Boujadia was accused of forming a criminal gang, preparing sabotage acts against foreign interests in northern Morocco, forgery and swindling, illegal immigration and failing to denounce a crime.

Prosecutors said Boujadia trained with an al-Qaida-aligned group in Chechnya before going to Afghanistan to fight with the Taliban movement. He was captured by U.S. forces in November 2001 along with fellow Guantanamo detainee Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni national accused of being Osama bin Laden's driver.

Sources told Med Basin Newsline that Boujadia testified against Hamdan at Guantanamo in exchange for immunity from prosecution.

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