American prisoners who were previously Taliban prisoners

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The United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba contains a dozen or more American prisoners who were also Taliban prisoners.

For decades Afghanistan has been one of the most prolific areas for the cultivation of black market opium. And a number of the Taliban's foreign prisoners were suspected drug smugglers. Others had said or done something which triggered Taliban suspicions.

Abdul Hakim Bukhary[1]
Hamidullah[2]	Was imprisoned by the Taliban for two years, just after they took power. He wasn't released, he escaped.
Arkan Mohammad Ghafil Al Karim[3]	Imprisoned by the Taliban on February 15, 2000 on suspicion that he was an American spy.
Abd Al Rahim Abdul Rassak Janko[3]	Imprisoned by the Taliban when he was denounced by Arkan Mohammad Ghafil Al Karim, after Al Karim's capture and interrogation.
Ilkham Turdbyavich Batayev[4]	Used as a kitchen slave by the Taliban.
Jamal Udeen Al-Harith[5]	Claims he paid a driver to take him from Pakistan to Iran, without realizing that his driver would take a shortcut that would take him through Afghanistan, where the Taliban seized him as an American spy, based on his British passport. Went directly from custody in a Taliban jail to US custody.
Amin Ullah[6]	Reports that he was imprisoned twice by the Taliban, when he resisted being press-ganged.

[edit] References

1. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdul Hakim Bukhary'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 56-65
2. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Hamidullah'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 89-101
3. ^ ^{a b} Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Arkan Mohammad Ghafil Al Karim's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 1-15
4. ^ Distant Justice: How a Portland lawyer is trying to help one Guantánamo detainee return to his life as a fruit trader, Williamette Week, August 9, 2006
5. ^ The most hapless tourist in the world: It's no holiday when the Taliban deem you a spy and the US labels you a terrorist, The Age, March 13, 2004
6. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Amin Ullah's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 12-16