At the end of March 2007, Nawaf Abdullah Alawi Nasser Al-Haithami's family lost all contact with him in Iraq. His family feared the worst due to the precarious security situation in Iraq. They later learned however, through an anonymous phone call from ‘an Iraqi family', that Nawaf was being held in U.S.-run Camp Buka Prison, now closed as of 17 September 2009.
The initial message he relayed through the Iraqi family of another prisoner was that he was fine and that he had been arrested by U.S.
More than six years since his arrest, after having paid a visit to the Vice Minister of Interior of Saudi Arabia, based on the promise of a fair trial, Mr.
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