Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera examines whether the controversial US policy of joining forces with Sunni tribes in Iraq's volatile al-Anbar province has worked, and who is paying the price. With filmmakers Rick Rowley and David Enders

Part 1

Part 2

Reporting on life behind the wire: The Sudanese journalist held in Guantanamo Bay

Sami al-Haj

Sami al-Haj is a Sudanese journalist who was captured on his first assignment for Al Jazeera and has been detained without charge in Guantanamo Bay since June 2002. But, remarkably, imprisonment hasn't stopped him reporting on life behind the wire. Andrew Buncombe tells his story and talks to those he left behind

Independent News
09 June 2007

Sami al-Haj spends his days alone, thinking of his wife and the son he barely knows.