Talk:Sami Mohy El Din Muhammed Al Hajj

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Reconciling references and assertions; formatting

This citation appeared, as the second in a row, after the introduction. <ref name=CNews20080502> {{cite news | url=http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/War_Terror/2008/05/02/5453806-ap.html | title=Freed cameraman: Gitmo getting worse | publisher=[[CNews]] | author=[[Mohamed Osman]] | date=May 2, 2008 | accessdate=2008-05-03 | quote= }}</ref>

There is, however, no citation for the report: "It was reported that his interrogators devoted their attention to trying to get him to confess to knowledge of a tie between Al Jazeera and Al Qaida." I moved this here, as "it was reported" rather demands a citation.

Again, successive citations: why three about the release? Latter two moved here:<ref name=AlJazeera20080502> {{cite news | url=http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/04F88FBD-BFA5-42D9-A9C4-D8E0979C79D6.htm | title=Sami al-Hajj hits out at US captors | publisher=[[Al Jazeera]] | date=May 2 2008 | accessdate=2008-05-02 | quote= }}</ref><ref name=AlJazeera20080502b> {{cite news | url=http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C59237D2-5E9B-430D-88D3-0596D969FD39.htm | title=Sami al-Hajj arrives in Sudan | publisher=[[Al Jazeera]] | date=May 2 2008 | accessdate=2008-05-03 | quote= }}</ref>

"Sami Al Hajj had to be removed from the airplane on a stretcher." What airplane? When? According to whom?

Table formatting for non-tabular information takes up a great deal of whitespace and is hard to read. There was the note, in edit comments, " I am embedding this quote in a table, not a {{quotation}} template, because one can't include {{sic}} templates in a {{quotation}} template. And one can't include octothorps. " I don't understand — we don't have a sic template. What's wrong with [sic]? Why is it necessary to include octothorpes?

I'm only guessing that this was an attempt to replicate the exact formatting of the primary document. There's no need to do that.