Two Guantanamo Bay terror suspects say they love Ghana especially the captain of the national football team Asamoah Gyan revealing that several inmates of the notorious prison after fans of the Black Stars.
The terror suspects Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby whose relocation to Ghana has caused massive controversy also revealed that they supported the Black Stars at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Clearly unhappy over their incarceration by the Americans, the Guantanamo detainees threw their weigh behind Ghana at the World Cup.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with GBC Radio’s Pascaline Adadevoh, Atef and Al-Dhuby said they also love the “good” people of Ghana, and thanked the President of the small West African country for accepting to host them for the next 24 months.
“We are really happy for the warm reception that Ghana has given us. I like Ghanaian people because they are very good people, they are very polite, we are very very excited to come here because we know some of the things about Ghana; first of all is Asamoah Gyan, we know him, we like him very much…even a lot of [the] detainees … like Ghanaians and as I told someone here [earlier], in 2010 [during] the world cup, most of the people there [Guantanamo Bay] – I can say all of us – we were with Ghana and when Ghana beat America, we were very happy.
The comments by the two come amidst remarks by an Islamic Scholar, Dr Mustapha Hamid that by dint of accepting the two ex-convicts, Ghana has now become a “legitimate target” of jihadists and terrorist groups in the world.