similar. James R. Crisfield, the Legal Advisor who reviewed Tribunal determinations for "legal sufficiency" commented on the reasoning of the "dissenting Tribunal member": Release He and fellow Sudanese Salim Mahmud Adam were repatriated on December 13, 2007. Lawsuit On May 14, 2008 the Daily Times of Pakistan reported that "Salim Mahmud Adam" and "Adel Hasan Hamad" had announced plans to sue the United States government over their detention. The article reports that he told the Daily Times that his 2004 Combatant Status Review Tribunal had cleared him of the allegation that he was an "enemy combatant". Hassan filed suit against the government and several individuals in federal district court in Seattle in April, 2010. His case was bolstered by an affidavit from Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, a former aide to Secretary of State Colin Powell, who stated that top U.S. officials, including George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld, had known that the majority of the detainees initially sent to Guantánamo were innocent, but that the detainees had been kept there for reasons of political expedience. Family Hamad had daughter who was born after his arrest and who died before his release for lack of medical care. See also Bagram torture and prisoner abuse References Further reading External links Adel Hassan Hamad's Guantanamo detainee assessment via Wikileaks video Sudanese ex-Guantánamo detainees demand release of fellow citizens and compensation for “mental and physical torture” Andy Worthington Sudanese man sues after release from Guantanamo Former Guantánamo prisoner asks U.S. to review its founding ideals The Shocking Stories of the Aid Workers Just Released From Gitmo projecthamad.org -The story of Adel Hamad with an emphasis on the Habeas Corpus 1958 births Bagram Theater Internment Facility detainees Living people Guantanamo detainees known to have been released Sudanese extrajudicial prisoners of the United States People from Port Sudan Sudanese hospital administrators American people of Sudanese descent