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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- http://www.nbcactionnews.com/kshb/news/article/0,1925,KSHB_9418_2895326,00.h tml Guantanamo: 'I saw things that I knew weren't right' By SAM STANTON and DENNY WALSH May 18, 2004A former Air Force interpreter says that military investigators repeatedly ignored warnings that they were overstating their evidence against espionage suspect Ahmad Al Halabi who was arrested last July at Guantanamo. The claim comes from a former member of the Air Force intelligence team that led the probe of Al Halabi, and is contained in a 74-page sworn statement, obtained by The Sacramento Bee, that she gave defense attorneys last month. "My conscience was kind of bothering me," former Air Force interpreter Suzan Sultan said in the statement. "I encountered situations while I was working with the (Office of Special Investigations) agents that I didn't feel were right. I saw things that I knew weren't right." Sultan's statement played a role in a military judge's decision last week to free Al Halabi from confinement pending trial, and could result in new hearings questioning the truthfulness of military investigators and lawyers. The defense has asked that all charges be thrown out as a result of Sultan's claims and other evidence. Air Force prosecutors have denied wrongdoing, and have said the defense claims are moot because they involve charges that have since been dropped. Al Halabi, a 25-year-old Syrian native and naturalized American citizen, was arrested last July after serving as an Arabic interpreter at Guantanamo, where the Navy has incarcerated 660 suspected Taliban and al Qaeda terrorists. Al Halabi was arrested en route to Syria. His lawyers claim he was heading there to get married and planned to return to the United States; the Air Force has charged him with espionage and says he was trying to smuggle classified information to Syria. Al Halabi currently is working as a supply clerk at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., where his court-martial is ongoing and a trial is expected to begin later this year. But the statement from Sultan, a 26-year-old former linguist for the Air Force, may significantly affect the case. Defense attorneys did not even know of Sultan's existence until early April, when she called Al Halabi's civilian defense attorney, Donald Rehkopf, and said she had important information for him. Sultan subsequently met with defense attorneys and gave them a sworn statement in which she said investigators believed from the start that Al Halabi was part of a spy ring at the base in Cuba. She recalled investigator Edward Slayton telling her that Al Halabi "was going to be tried for treason and that he was involved in some kind of plan down in Guantanamo Bay and that he had links to al Qaeda." Investigators asked Sultan to use her knowledge of Arabic to cull through computer and other information they had seized to build the case against Al Halabi, she said in the statement. But Sultan said her review came up with little that could be construed as damaging. "There were dialogues between him and his fiancee," she said. "There were CDs, and these CDs were mostly music CDs and sermons given by a popular Egyptian." 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