Abdur Rahim (unnumbered Guantanamo detainee)

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Abdur Rahim, a baker from Khowst, is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1]

The Department of Defense, in compliance to a court order, was forced to release the names of all the Guantanamo detainees, who had been held in military custody.

An article by New York Times writer Tim Golden identified Abdur Rahim as a 26-year-old baker from Khowst, who had been a passenger in a taxi that was apprehended near Firebase Salerno, shortly following a rocket attack. According to the article, Rahim, the driver, Dilawar, and two other passengers were all taken into custody, and transferred to Bagram on December 4, 2002. Dilawar was brutally beaten to death over the course of five days. Rahim and the other two passengers survived Bagram, and were shipped to Guantanamo.

Rahim described the conditions at Bagram as being worse than those at Guantanamo.

Rahim said that he and the other two survivors visited Dilawar's parents, but didn't have the heart to tell them of the actual circumstances of his death.

They had fallen under suspicion when Jan Baz Khan, the American's local militia ally, had denounced them. But later American intelligence analysts decided that Khan himself had been behind the attacks, and the surviving passengers were released.

The list of detainees the Department of Defense released on May 15, 2006 is supposed to list all the detainees who had been held in military custody in Guantanamo.^[2] But it does not list anyone named Abdur Rahim.

Main article: Guantanamo detainees missing from the official list