User:Geo Swan/Guantanamo Captives who had weight(s) recorded, or who were recorded as having refused to be weighed -- AFTER their release
Guantanamo captives who had weight(s) recorded, or who were recorded as having refused to be weighed -- AFTER their release
Most of the formerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo detainee assessments state, without any details, that the captive was "evasive", or offered conflicting accounts of themselves. However there are several reasons to suspect interrogators regularly posed questions to one captive, that were intended for a different captive, and that they recorded the first captives answers in the second captives dossier.
This table is based on weight records the DoD published, and it suggests that five percent of the time the wrong captive was delivered to medical staff, and they didn't notice they had the wrong guy.
Several years ago Carol Rosenberg wrote about Tariq al Sawah, when he was charged before a military commission. She reproduced his height and weight records, and noted how they showed occasion of wild weight fluctations. They certainly did! When I graphed those fluctuations I reached a different conclusion than she did. Tariq al Sawah was someone who had fought beside Bosnian muslims, during the civil war that lead to Bosnian independence from Yugoslavia. But, he seems to have grown disenchanted with jihadism by the time he arrived in Guantanamo. He arrived weighing over 200 pounds. During the next four and a half years (the weight records only go to 2006), he gained another 200 pounds.
When graphed I think it was clear the apparent weight fluctuations could only be explained by someone else's weight being recorded in his file. In 2004 he suddenly lost about 100 pounds, his weight was stable for a few months, then he suddenly gained that weight back. Then, in August 2006 his weight plummeted to barely 120 pounds -- an impossible loss of almost 300 pounds. The captives whose weight was dangerously low had their weight recorded daily, or several times per week. And Tariq's weight record show him being weighed ever second day or so for the last half of August. Finally, on August 30th, he had two weights recorded. If those records were to be taken at face value he gained 280 pounds in a single day.
The captives' habeas attorney have described how they would come to see their clients, would wait in the interview room for guards to bring their captive to them, only to have a stranger brought to them. The guards failed to distinguish between the captives.
One of the saddest stories is that of an Afghan of Uzbek descent, named Abdullah Khan. The Taliban are recruited exclusively from Afghanistan's (and Pakistan's) Pashtun ethnic group. Abdullah Khan was a middleaged man who had worked as a migrant farm worker in Kandahar, in his youth.
The good news part of this story is that in 2003, after the Taliban ouster, he thought it was safe to travel back to Kandahar, the heart of Pashtun territory. The bad news part of the story is that he was recognized by individuals who held a grudge against him, and denounced him to highly credulous American intelligence officials. They told those officials he was not who he said he was -- that he was really a former Taliban governor -- Khirullah Khairkhwa.
What those shockingly credulous American intelligence officials should have checked was whether Khairkhwa was already in US custody. Khan is eventually shipped to Guantanamo when American interrogators in Bagram grow impatient with his unwillingness to confess that he is really Khairkhwa.
As soon as he arrives in Guantanamo, and has a chance to talk with other captives , what do they inform him? Khairkhwa, the real Khairkhwa, in only a few hundred yards away, in another compound. He has been in Guantanamo for almost two years. Abdullah Khan testified at his 2004 Tribunal that every interrogation started with his interrogators insisting they knew he was lying about his identity, and that, at every interrogation, he pleaded with his interrogators to check the prison roster, so they could see for themselves that they already held the real Khairkwa.
documents that 5 percent of the time
isn[1] | name[1] | inprocess date[2] |
last weighin[2] |
release date[3] |
gap[4] | notes | |
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ISN 60 | Adil Kamil al-Wadi | 2002-01-17 | 2005-09 | 2004-11-04 | 300 | [1] |
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ISN 82 | Abdullah D. Kafkas | [5] | 2005-06-12 | 2004-02-27 | 471 | [2] |
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ISN 83 | Yusef Nabied | 2002-02-08 | 2004-08 | 2004-07-17 | 14 | [3] |
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ISN 164 | Imad Achab Kanouni | 2002-02-12 | 2004-08 | 2004-07-26 | 5 | [4] |
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ISN 203 | Ravil Shafeyavich Gumarov | 2002-01-21 | 2004-03 | 2004-02-27 | 2 | [5] |
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ISN 209 | Almasm Rabilavich Sharipov | 2002-01-21 | 2005-08-07 | 2004-02-27 | 527 | [6] |
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ISN 228 | Abdullah Kamel Abdullah Kamel Al Kandari | 2002-05-01 | 2006-09-11 | 2006-09-06 | 5 | [7] |
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ISN 247 | Kay Fiyatullah | 2002-06-12 | 2005-09 | 2004-09-17 | 348 | [8] |
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ISN 325 | Nizar Sassi | 2002-02-15 | 2005-04 | 2004-07-26 | 248 | [9] |
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ISN 346 | Said Bezan Ashek Shayban | 2002-02-14 | 2006-12-31 | 2006-05-18 | 227 | [10] |
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ISN 364 | Mohammed Raz-Mohammed Kakar | 2002-06-12 | 2006-02-28 | 2003-05-09 | 1026 | [11] |
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ISN 366 | Hazrat Sangin Khan | 2002-05-03 | 2004-05-10 | 2004-03-14 | 57 | [12] |
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ISN 460 | Khan Zaman | 2002-06-16 | 2006-06-04 | 2006-02-08 | 116 | [13] |
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ISN 515 | Israr Ul Haq | 2002-06-12 | 2005-02 | 2004-03-14 | 323 | [14] |
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ISN 529 | Bacha Khan (Guantanamo captive 529) | 2002-06-16 | 2004-10 | 2004-09-17 | 13 | [15] |
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ISN 530 | Dawd Gul | 2002-06-10 | 2004-10 | 2004-09-18 | 12 | [16] |
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ISN 561 | Abdul Rahim Muslimdost | 2002-05-01 | 2005-05 | 2005-04-18 | 12 | [17] |
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ISN 573 | Rustam Akhmyarov | 2002-05-01 | 2004-03 | 2004-02-27 | 2 | [18] |
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ISN 641 | Abdul Karim Irgashive | 2002-06-08 | 2004-08 | 2004-07-17 | 14 | [19] |
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ISN 674 | Timur Ravilich Ishmurat | 2002-06-14 | 2004-03 | 2004-02-27 | 2 | [20] |
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ISN 699 | Din Mohammed Farhad | 2002-08-05 | 2004-12 | 2004-09-18 | 73 | [21] |
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ISN 783 | Shamsullah | 2002-10-28 | 2006-11-09 | 2006-10-11 | 29 | [22] |
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ISN 909 | Mohabet Khan | 2003-02-07 | 2006-12-02 | 2006-10-11 | 52 | [23] |
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ISN 912 | Asad Ullah (Guantanamo captive 912) | 2003-03-23 | 2004-03 | 2004-01-28 | 32 | [24] |
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ISN 913 | Ullah Naqib | 2003-02-07 | 2004-03 | 2004-01-28 | 32 | [25] |
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ISN 930 | Mohammed Ismail | 2003-02-07 | 2004-03 | 2004-01-28 | 32 | [26] |
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ISN 1005 | Bashir Ahmad | 2003-05-09 | 2006-04-18 | 2004-09-17 | 578 | [27] |
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ISN 1006 | Mohammed Irfan (Guantanamo captive 1006) | 2003-05-09 | 2006-04-18 | 2004-09-17 | 578 | [28] |
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ISN 10007 | Martin Mubanga | 2002-04-20 | 2005-03 | 2005-01-25 | 34 | [29] |
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006". United States Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf. Retrieved 2006-05-15.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Measurements of Heights and Weights of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (ordered and consolidated version)". Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas, from DoD data. Archived from the original on 2009-12-21. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhumanrights.ucdavis.edu%2Fresources%2Flibrary%2Fdocuments-and-reports%2Fgtmo_heightsweights.pdf&date=2009-12-21.
- ↑ OARDEC (2008-10-09). "Consolidate chronological listing of GTMO detainees released, transferred or deceased". Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/09-F-0031_doc1.pdf. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
- ↑ number of days between last weigh-in and release date
- ↑ Inprocess date missing