Deleted:Abdul Matin (detainee)
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For other people called Abdul Matin, see Abdul Matin (disambiguation).
Abdul Matin is a citizen of Afghanistan who is still held in extrajudicial detention after being transferred from United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba — to an Afghan prison.[1]
One reason Matin is notable is that one of the reasons he was detained was that he was captured wearing a Casio F91W digital watch.[2]
Contents
Identity
The release of the other two men the USA called Shahzada
Abdul Matin testified that he learned that Guantanamo contained another captive who the Americans called Shahzada, who had already been released. In fact the USA called two other Guantanamo captives Shahzada, and they had released both of them.[3][4][5][6] According to Commander Jeffrey Gordon, a DoD spokesman, the first Guantanamo captive the USA called Shahzada, whose real name was Mohammed Yusif Yaqub, was really an unrepentant Taliban commander, who returned to the battlefield in 2003, and was killed in combat on 7 May 2004. Gordan claimed Mohammed Yusif Yaqub really had been a Taliban commander all along, who had fooled American intelligence analysts into releasing him.
Combatant Status Review
The Center for Constitutional Rights reports that all of the Afghans repatriated to Afghanistan from April 2007 were sent to Afghan custody in the American built and supervised wing of the Pul-e-Charkhi prison near Kabul.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "International Travel". Center for Constitutional Rights. 2008. http://ccrjustice.org/files/CCR_Annual_Report_2008.pdf. Retrieved 2009-03-13. "CCR attorney Pardiss Kebriaei traveled to Kabul to follow the situation of Guantánamo prisoners being returned to Afghanistan. Since April 2007, all such prisoners have been sent to a U.S.-built detention facility within the Soviet era Pule-charkhi prison located outside Kabul." mirror
- ↑ Casios cited as evidence at Guantanamo, Detroit Free Press, 10 March 2006
- ↑ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Hajji Shahzada'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 88-96
- ↑ Guantanamo Bay Detainees Classifed [sic?] as "No Longer Enemy Combatants", Washington Post
- ↑ "U.S. divulges new details on released Gitmo inmates". CNN. 14 May 2007. http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/05/14/gitmo.inmates.reut/index.html. Retrieved 19 May 2007. [dead link]
- ↑ "FACTBOX: Pentagon releases data on former Gitmo detainees". Reuters. 14 May 2007. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1433833520070514. Retrieved 19 May 2007.
External links
- The Stories of the Afghans Just Released from Guantánamo: Intelligence Failures, Battlefield Myths and Unaccountable Prisons in Afghanistan (Part Two) Andy Worthington
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