Deleted:Bashir Ahmad (Guantanamo detainee 1005)
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Bashir Ahmad was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 1005 American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1975, in Chah Kote Wala, Pakistan.
Background
Pakistan's Daily Times reports that a man named Bashir Ahmed, from Jhang, was repatriated to Pakistan in the fall of 2004.[2][3]
Historian Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, describes Bashir Ahmad as a survivor of "the Convoy of Death", transported in an Industrial shipping container From Kunduz to Sheberghan Prison.[4][5] He was held for an extended period of time by General Dostum's private militia in Sherberghan. He described brutal treatment in Sheberghan, and while in US custody in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility, and in Guantanamo.
Release
The Daily Times reported that Bashir Ahmed was repatriated with sixteen other men. The seventeen men were released from Pakistani custody on June 28, 2005.[2][3] According to Daily Times Punjab's chief minister’s adviser on religious affairs, Maulana Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi, said local authorities wanted to investigate whether the men had been brainwashed and were still involved in any terrorist activity. On November 25, 2009, the Department of Defense published a list of the dates captives were transferred from Guantanamo.[6] According to that list Bashir Ahmad was repatriated on 17 September 2004.[6]
There is no record that Bashir Ahmed's enemy combatant status was reviewed by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[7]
Guantanamo Medical records
On 16 March 2007 the Department of Defense published medical records for the captives.[8] According to those records Bashir Ahmed was 66 inches tall. According to those records his weight was recorded three times in 2003, eleven times in 2004, and once more on April 18, 2006, over twenty months after his transfer from Guantanamo.
References
- ↑ OARDEC (2006-05-15). "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "17 ex-Guantanamo prisoners released". Daily Times. June 28, 2005. Archived from the original on 2009-07-27. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_28-6-2005_pg7_1. Retrieved 2007-01-21.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 [dead link]"17 ex-Gitmo detainees freed". The Nation (Pakistani newspaper). June 28, 2005. http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/june-2005/28/index7.php. Retrieved 2007-01-21. [dead link]
- ↑ Tom Lasseter (2008-06-14). "Guantanamo Inmate Database: Bashir Ahmad". McClatchy News Services. Archived from the original on 2009-01-06. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdetainees.mcclatchydc.com%2Fdetainees%2F46&date=2009-01-06.
- ↑ Andy Worthington (February 6, 2009). "The Guantánamo Files: Website Extras (7) – From Sheberghan to Kandahar". http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/the-guantanamo-files-website-extras-7-from-sheberghan-to-kandahar/. Retrieved 2010-04-17. mirror
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 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.
- ↑ OARDEC (2006-04-20). "List of detainee who went through complete CSRT process" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
- ↑ 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
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