Solaiman Dur Mohammed Shah

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Solaiman Dur Mohammed Shah
Born 1971 or 1977
Citizenship Afghanistan

Solaiman Dur Mohammed Shah is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1][2] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 119. American intelligence analysts estimates of his age differ. According to the official list of names he was born in 1977, in Panjwaee, Afghanistan. According to his JTF-GTMO dossier, he was born in 1971.[3] He was repatriated on March 23, 2003.

The Department of Defense published height and weight records for the captives in March 2007.[4] Almost all of those weight records also stated when the captive arrived in Guantanamo.[5] Solaiman is one of the few exceptions.[6]

His dossier however says he arrived on January 20, 2002.[3] He had been cleared for release by July 2002.

Release

File:Guantanamo captives leaving after their debriefing by Afghan security officials on 2003-03-25.jpg
Mark Kaufman, a reporter for the the Washington Post, took this photo, showing some of the 18 Afghan captives repatriated on March 23rd, 2003. The men were reported to have been issued a gym bag, American running shoes, and a set of western clothes.

The Washington Post reported that a captive named Sulaiman Shah was one of eighteen men repatriated to Afghanistan on March 22, 2003, and released with a certificate of innocence by Afghan authorities on March 26, 2003.[2] On November 25, 2009, the Department of Defense published a list of the dates captives were transferred from Guantanamo.[7]

Sulaiman Shah, and the other released captives, were given a one set of western clothes, including running shoes, and a knapsack to hold their medical records.[2] Most of the men needed to call on charity in order to travel home.

Sulaiman Shah, who described himself as a "businessman", said he was captured for no reason.[2] He said he was generally treated well, but added: "I was in such a small [cell] and couldn't go outside for many days, My toilet was next to my bed, and it was a very bad way to live."

His JTF-GTMO dossier said he told interrogators he supported himself by buying and selling cars.[3] His dossier says he was captured by fighters for militia leader Abdul Rashid Dostum, while driving to Mazari Sharif, to sell a car. His dossier says "The detainee was transferred to Guantanamo Bay detention facility because of his alleged general knowledge of a possible Taliban official in Kandahar named Mala Sharjijen." It concluded, however, that he didn't know anything of intelligence value. It also noted that he was not suspected of any ties to al Qaeda, or of being a Taliban leader. It finally noted that, "detainee has not expressed thoughts of violence, or made threats toward the U.S. or its allies during interrogations or in the course of his detention."

References

  1. OARDEC. "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. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. http://web.archive.org/web/20070930184034/http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf. Retrieved 2006-05-15. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Marc Kaufman, April Witt (2003-03-25). "Returning Afghans Talk of Guantanamo: Out of Legal Limbo, Some Tell of Mistreatment". Washington Post: p. A12. Archived from the original on 2011-12-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20111204005439/http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A29276-2003Mar25. Retrieved 2023-05-17. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Margot Williams (2008-11-03). "Guantanamo Docket: Solaiman Dur Mohammed Shah". New York Times. http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/119-solaiman-dur-mohammed-shah. Retrieved 2010-03-30. "The detainee was transferred to Guantanamo Bay detention facility because ofhis alleged general knowledge ofa possible Taliban official in Kandahar named Mala Sharjijen. However, detainee was unable to provide any terrorist biographical information inresponse to the collection requirement. The detainee was cooperative, but 170 considers the information obtained from and about him as not valuable or tactically exploitable." 
  4. JTF-GTMO (2007-03-16). "Measurements of Heights and Weights of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba". Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/measurements/. Retrieved 2008-12-22.  mirror
  5. Sonia Saini, Almerindo Ojeda. "Heights, weights, and in-processing dates". Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas. 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. 
  6. "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. 
  7. OARDEC (2008-10-09). "Consolidated 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.