Abdul Ghafar (Afghan mujahideen fighter)

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There are multiple individuals named Abdul Ghaffar.

Abdul Ghafar is a citizen of Afghanistan who was identified as a mujahideen fighter during the Combatant Status Review Tribunal of a Guantanamo captive.[1]

Guantanamo captive Muhibullah faced the allegation, during his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, that:[1]

  • "The Detainee acquired a rifle from a Mujahideen fighter, Abdul Ghafar."

Muhibullah denied knowing anyone named Abdul Ghafar.[1] He acknowledged being conscripted into the Taliban. He acknowledged being assigned to be a security guard. He acknowledged handling a rifle, when it was his sentry watch. But he said he and the other sentries had just one rifle to share among themselves, and that he never fired this weapon.

The allegation that Muhibullah received a rifle from Abdul Ghafar is notable because the files of US counterterrorism analysts would contain records of several individuals named Abdul Ghafar, or some variation thereof. But the intelligence analysts who prepared the allegations failed to identify, in the unclassified summary of evidence, from which individual named Abdul Ghafar, Muhibullah was accused of accepting a rifle.

id
num		 name alleged
affiliation		 notes
1032 Abdul Ghaffar Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin
  • Accused of assisting in the killing of three Red Cross workers on March 27, 2003.[2]
  • Accused of possessing a cell phone on April 3, 2003
  • Allegedly fled his home, and hid from US forces in a creek bed.[3]
unknown Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar Taliban
  • US officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, claim a Taliban leader named Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar tricked his interrogators into thinking he was a simple, harmless, illiterate, monoglot villager, who could safely be released.[4][5] Then, according to Cheney, he "returned to the battlefield", and was killed in action on September 26, 2004.
954 Abdul Ghafour Taliban
none Haji Abdul Ghafour Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin
none Mullah Abdul Ghafour Taliban
  • A Taliban leader named Mullah Abdul Ghafour is alleged to have been one of the three senior Taliban leaders responsible for a massacre of several hundred civilians when Taliban forces reoccupied Yakaolong, on January 7, 2001, and for several days thereafter.[7]
  • A unit of several hundred Taliban soldiers occupied Musa Qala on February 2, 2007.[8] They were said to have been lead by a Taliban leader named Mullah Abdul Ghafour. When American General Dan McNeill took over NATO forces from British General David J. Richards he ordered an air strike that, reportedly, killed Mullah Abdul Ghafour on February 4, 2007.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Muhibullah's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 64-76
  2. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdul Ghaffar'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 25-32
  3. ^ Summarized transcript (.pdf), from Abdul Ghaffar's Administrative Review Board hearing - page 13
  4. ^ Gitmo Detainees Return To Terror, CBS News, October 17, 2004
  5. ^ Cheney defends Guantanamo as essential to war: VP says that if freed, prisoners would return to battlefield, San Francisco Chronicle, June 14, 2005
  6. ^ Summarized transcript (.pdf), from Juma Din's Administrative Review Board hearing - page 261
  7. ^ War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity: 1978-2001. Afghan Justice Project. Retrieved on February 5, 2007.
  8. ^ Ahmed Rashid. "Taliban takeover of town could mark start of military offensive", Eurasianet, February 5, 2007. Retrieved on February 5.