There will be a time and a place when Neely will tell his children — the oldest is now 10 — about Guantanamo. I will “give them all the information and let them make their own opinion … I’ll just tell them the truth … I will tell them that I have been part of it.”
Neely initially contacted Rasul via Facebook and then met with Ahmed and Rasul, the two former British detainees, in London almost two years ago.
Neely wanted to get in touch with them to say that he was sorry for the part he played in their detention at Guantanamo. “I was very nervous to meet them,” Neely said. He did not know what might happen. “I wasn’t sure if they would hate me, yell at me,” he added. “I can honestly say though when I left London I left with two more friends then I arrived with.”