User:Geo Swan/Guantanamo/sold

• "America wanted to capture terrorists and Dostum just wanted the money, so he sold me."^[1]

• "I tell you the tram (Afghani) war commanders sold people for dollars (to Americans) and (labeled) them different names, like he is (Taliban), he is (Al Qaida). That was not true. That was their purpose, to get money. They sold innocent people. I [have] never been America's enemy and I never intend to be."
• Allegedly captured at the same time and place as a Taliban leader.^[2]
• Allegedly claimed it would be legitimate to wage jihad if his country was invaded.^[3]

• "The Dostom sold me to the Americans on my second arrest. They put me in jail and I was tortured by Afghans and forced to say things."^[4]
• Reports being tortured in custody.^[5]

• "My personal identification and pictures are mine but the martyr letter is not mine. I have never admitted to writing them. I told my Personal Representative I wanted to meet with the interrogator that wrote that. About my pictures and personal identification, I left them in the house with my family. I don't know how my family got out, so how could I know what happened to the things I left? I then left Khost for Pakistan. I went to the Pakistani government to turn myself into the Yemeni embassy. The Pakistanis then sold us. We were tortured in Kandahar by beatings. Since we arrived in Cuba we have been mentally persuaded."
• Alleged OBL bodyguard.^[6]

• "I was told they were making the necessary arrangements to return me to my country. Suddenly, I was turned over to the United States. I don't know why I was turned over to the U.S. There was nothing going on between the U.S. and me, and there were no problems between my country and the U.S. My only problem was with the Pakistani government Why did they do that? Pakistan is the reason I am here. Pakistan was greedy and wanted money, so they sold me. This might have put the U.S. in a very precarious position."
• Allegedly worked as a volunteer for the charity al Haramain.^[7]
• Allegedly built mosques in Bosnia.^[8]

• "We asked the Pakistanis to meet with people from the Kuwaiti embassy, but they turned us over to the Americans right away. They didn't allow us to talk to anyone. I don't know what they did. They sold us or there was an agreement. I don't know."
• Allegedly named on a suspicious list.^[9]
• Allegedly a member of the NGO Kuwaiti Joint Relief Committee.
• Released September 2006.^[10]

• "Personal Representative: On the item where it says he surrendered, he says they were tricked. Their agreement was they would return home and give up their arms. And then Dostum's forces sold them for money to the United States."^[11]
• Allegedly trained at an Afghan training camp.
• Allegedly served on a secondary line.

• "When I left and entered Pakistan, the Pakistani authorities did arrest me. I did not see any soldiers or anything like that. I entered into Pakistan, I entered into the Pakistani villages and civilians living there took me to a camp inside Pakistan to the Pakistani army. I asked for the Kuwaiti ambassador. They told me, "We will go with you to that place." But unfortunately they sold us for money to Pakistan. And that is the truth, you saw that. Of course they pictured us as terrorists and turned us over to the United States. These points that you accused me of and because of what you said I am a member or associated with Al Qaida, and you see now the difference between the things I told them in the interrogations. And honestly I cannot be sure what is there in my classified file, I cannot be sure that it has additional accusations or information that are incorrect. I mean, I wish I could see these accusations and to answer them, like I answered what is written in front of me."^[12]
• Allegedly named on a suspicious list.

• "I turned myself in to the Pakistani authorities when I found out the war had changed and it was now between the United States, the Taliban and al Qaida. That wasn't the reason I went to Pakistan, so when the fight broke out, I wanted to leave. After I turned myself in to the Pakistani authorities, they called the Saudi government and the Saudi Ambassador came to see me. I asked for his identification. The Ambassador told me that in three days I would be taken back to Saudi Arabia. I was surprised to find out I was sold to the United States."^[13][14]
• Allegedly trained at a military camp.

• "Personal Representative: That is true. Not far from the place, but he was not captured, He followed Afghanis who said they would help him get out of there. So he followed them and they delivered him to the Americans, Afghans he trusted first delivered him to second people, then they sold him to the Americans."^[15]
• Allegedly trained at a military camp.

• "Yes, sir. This is so true. The Pakistanis are making business out of this war, including myself; the detainees are not being captured by U.S. forces, but are being sold by the Pakistan government. They are making 2, 3 or $10,000 to sell detainees to the U.S. There are also detainees from Bosnia here. They are making business because they know the U.S. will pay them if they say they are terrorists. Some interrogators told Bosnian detainees that we didn't have anything against you, we bought you. We don't know why we are holding you. It was just a business that Pakistan is making out of this war.^[16]
• Allegedly captured carrying suspicious documents.^[17]
• Allegedly studied at a madrassa.

• "They caught me in Pakistan in Karachi and they sold me to the Americans for $5,000. I am not a fighter. I was in prison in Pakistan and they told me they would call my parents but they never did."^[18]
• 14 years old when captured.^[19][20]
• Allegedly trained at an Afghan military camp.^[21]
• Allegedly worked with Abu Qatada in London in 1998 when he was an eleven year old child in Saudi Arabia.^[22][23]

• "It shows in here that I am a Detainee; a Detainee is someone who fought against another government or force. Then, if they are captured, they should be called a Detainee. I wasn't fighting against any government or other forces. We were in a mountain and we had no more food. We just stayed in a mountain because of the continuation of bombing going on. We didn't know the road and so we followed some other people into Pakistan. We crossed the border and there were lots of people. They took us into their homes and fed us. On the second day they took us to a mosque and there were a lot of people at the mosque. Then they called the Pakistan police. Then we found out, after a few days, that they sold us to the US government."^[24]
• Allegedly trained at an Afghan military camp.^[25]
• Allegedly fled the American aerial bombardment of Afghanistan.

• "When we went to Pakistan the local people treated us like brothers, and gave us good food and meat. Then we didn't even think it was possible they would turn us in to authorities, how can we resist or do anything? When we went to prison in Pakistan, we heard they sold us to the Pakistani authorities for $5000 per person."^[26]
• Allegedly trained at an Afghan military camp.
• Determined not to have been an enemy combatant after all.^[27]

• "Unfortunately I was in the hands of the wrong people. They sold me and the Americans bought me. I was bought and put in their detention. I was only 16 years old at the time. I answered all their questions. They blamed me for having a connection with Mohammed [referring to the Jaish-E-Mohammad organization as alleged in Exhibit R-1], but I had none. I am not registered with them. Of course I went there [to Afghanistan] but I had no connection with them. I did not take part in the war. I fought with the Taliban and I also took their training. When I left home it was an emotional decision. I had no sense at that time."^[28]
• Allegedly trained at an Afghan military camp.
• Allegedly served on the front line.

• "Regarding our departure from Jalalabad to Pakistan, this is true, for we left Jalalabad to save ourselves from death and that is the biggest proof that shows every rational person and every individual that we are not combatants and we are not fighters and we are not terrorists and we do not have any relationship with Al Qaida or the Taliban or any other group. This accusation shows you that we escaped from death to save ourselves, for the terrorist or the combatant, as you say, likes to die. But we are the opposite: we do not like death and the proof is that we left Jalalabad to Pakistan. If we liked death, we would not have left Afghanistan. For the person who has a mind knows that we have nothing to do with any of these wars or fighters and the accusation says he was arrested in Pakistan. It should say he was sold in Pakistan, for we ourselves were not arrested by anyone, but we ourselves entered the Pakistani village and the residents of the village handed us over to the Pakistani Authorities. We did not commit any crime or any illegal act."^[29]
• Allegedly trained at an Afghan military camp.
• Allegedly fled the American aerial bombardment of Afghanistan, 2001.

• "I had a return ticket home and it was clear I wasn't planning to stay or ever cross into Afghanistan. The Pakistani police sold me for money to the Americans. This was part of a round up of all foreigners and Arabs in that area."^[30]
• Allegedly named on a suspicious list.
• Allegedly traveled extensively with little visible means of support.
• Allegedly associated with the Pakistani missionary organization Tablighi Jamaat.

• "Point number six is correct, but I am not sure of the date. It is normal that the Pakistani authorities had arrested me. I entered their country illegally. The fact they turned me over is also normal because they found out I was an Arab and that is also another reason why I was arrested. The Pakistani people are very poor and for them to have sold me for money is something that was very big to them. I will say this again, this doesn't mean or prove I am an enemy combatant."^[31]
• Allegedly a member of al Wafa.
• Allegedly was non-compliant, in Guantanamo, on several occasions.

• "Yes, my partner in travel is detained, just like me. That does not mean he was involved in any problems or something bad. We will find, in this prison, a lot of innocents who have no connections to terrorist activities. The Pakistani Intelligence sold us to you, even though we offered them our official passports, with our true names, to get an official permit to enter the country, through the Pakistani officials in the border office."^[32]
• Allegedly associated with the suspect charity al Haramain.
• Allegedly named on a suspicious list.

• Allegedly trained at a military camp in Northern Pakistan, near Kashmir.
• Allegedly participated in an attempt to assassinate Egyptian President Mubarak.

• "I say it once and twice and three times so that any person on the outside will hear me and will reel what I have suffered in these prisons and the persecutions against us in every matter of digesting human rights. And when I was sold by the Afghani or Pakistani gangs who sold me for close to $5000 American Dollars and when we were handed over to the American Forces and interrogated, they could not find any accusations against me and I don't have any relationship or association with al Qaida or the Taliban."
• Allegedly named on a suspicious list.^[34]
• Allegedly associated with a member of the Pakistani missionary organization Tablighi Jamaat.^[35]
• Allegedly made "anti-American" statements while in extrajudicial detention in Guantanamo.^[36]

• "From there they sold me to the Americans."^[37]
• Allegedly stayed in a al Qaeda guest house.
• Allegedly trained at an Afghan military camp.^[38]
• Allegedly saw Osama bin Laden on or about November 1, 2001.
• Letter submitted on his behalf by his habeas corpus lawyer.^[39]

• "The Detainee was not captured but after the Taliban fell he was staying with his nomad friends and they suggested he go to speak to a local Commander, a fair and just man named Kama]. The Detainee went to see Kamal and was treated like a guest the first night, then the next morning he was taken prisoner and kept for twenty days. The Detainee was men turned over to Ismail Khan where all of his possessions were taken from him and he continued to be held prisoner. After about two months he was sold to the Americans in Herat and then transferred to Kandahar. He believes he was sold to the Americans because there was no other reason for him to be given to the Americans. The Detainee was never in combat and never fought against the United States or the Northern Alliance. Sir, that ooncludes the written statement the Detainee asked me to present for him."^[40]
• Allegedly served guard duty for Syed Sha Agha.
• Allegedly served as the acting Governor of Shebreghan for a period of time.^[41]
• Allegedly resolved minor disputes when his boss, the Governor, was away on vacation.^[42]

• "One of the allegations is that I started a business right after the Taliban came to power, and that is a misunderstanding. We were in Pakistan, and hopefully, we can talk about this later. I think ISL or the intelligence agency, in Pakistan was asking for money, and I didn't give it to them, and that's when my problems started. I was a very popular merchant, and they said give us some money or we'll sell you out They sold me to them."^[43][44]
• Allegedly a businessman, with contracts with the Taliban, who helped them acquire foreign funds.
• Allegedly associated with a member of Tablighi Jamaat.^[45]
• Allegedly once served as the Taliban's Minister of Transportation.^[46]
• Claims he met senior members of the Taliban when he borrowed millions of dollars from Afghanistan's central bank, engaged in currency speculation, and then couldn't pay back the loan.

• "I am not an enemy of the United States of America. I am against the Pakistanis. I think they sold me to you and all of these wrong accusations were made by the Pakistanis."^[47]
• Determined not to have been an enemy combatant after all.^[27]
• Brother of fellow Guantanamo captive, Badruzzan Badr, who has also been released.^[27]
• Both brothers are writers, jewelery dealers, and Pashtun nationalists.
• Muslimdost wrote a book, after his release, that was critical of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, and is suspected of being held in clandestine Pakistani interrogation custody.^[48]

• "It appears to me they made up the case against me. The Pakistani government is corrupt I believe they sold me."^[49]
• Worked, from home his home in Pakistan, for a Somalia-based Hawala, the Dehabshiil Company, that intelligence officials mistakenly thought was tied to another Somalia-based Hawala, that was suspected of ties to terrorists.
• Allegedly had a tie to the suspect Afghan-based charity al Wafa.^[50]
• His Personal Representative's research showed that Dehabshiil was a legitimate organization, that operated openly, around the world, including the USA. When the Hawala suspected of ties to terrorism had been shut-down, Dehabshiil had inherited its legitimate clients, and followed all the recent safeguards to make sure it wasn't used for money-laundering.

• "Personal Representative: (Reading from his notes of the detainee's initial response) Again, he was not captured. He was turned over to the U.S. because he could not pay the bribe that was required and so he was sold to the Americans."^[51]
• Allegedly a member of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
• Determined not to have been an enemy combatant during his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.^[27]
• Was held in Guantanamo for a further two years after the determination he had never been an enemy combatant was made.^[52][53]
• Involluntarily transferred to an Albanian refugee camp.

• "This is normal. In different countries when there are foreigners living there, it's very normal for the government of that country to go into the refuges' or certain people's house who are not from that country and search their houses just to find out if they are officially in that country, if they have proper papers, if they have permanent residents. It happened in Saudi Arabia also when the Saudi police go into people's houses and ask if everything is official. What you did was the money given to the Pakistani police for each one of us. We were sold out basically. Even in Yemen and in So mage (ph), they find Americans there that don't an official residence or Visa, or that kind of documentation from the government. They would be taken and sent back home right away. After the incident that happened in the United States, the Americans were very desperate like a hungry person. They wanted just to take anyone. The Pakistanis took advantage of you and just gave you anyone for an amount of money."^[54]
• Allegedly associated with the Pakistani missionary organization Tablighi Jamaat.
• Captured with other foreigners in the foreign students residence at Salafi University, in Faisalabad.^[55]

• "Besides the people who sold me out ask the other people what type of person I am."^[56][57]
• Unusually, there are transcripts indicating Guantanamo captive 762 had two Combatant Status Review Tribunals.^[56][57]
• Allegedly lived in a house owned by a Taliban leader -- Abaidullah claimed his mother, a widow, was allowed to live in a house confiscated from a deposed warlord.
• Allegedly trained in mine warfare.^[58]
• Falsely denounced his business partner during coercive interrogation, leading to several other men being sent to Guantanamo.

• "He just makes a conspiracy for money and sold me to the Americans."^[59]
• Allegedly controlled a large illicit armory.^[60]

• Captured January 29, 2003, by the same Afghans who captured Shahzada and Nasrullah.^[61]

• Captured January 29, 2003, by the same Afghans who captured Shahzada and Abdullah Khan.^[61]

• "In Afghanistan they heard that American forces are providing $25,000 to capture each Arab and $15,000 to capture each Afghan. Is it you want to buy people with money? I will finally go home and I know I will go home. The enemy who sold me for $15,000 to you, I will charge him $200,000 and I will make sure that I hand all of his family to you; so they will work like me in Cuba."^[61]
• Allegedly employed an "intelligence agent".
• Largely captured because of his association with Abdullah Khan, falsely accused of being Khirullah Khairkhwa, a former governor of Herat, who had been sent to Guantanamo over a year earlier.
• Claims he was sold for a bounty.
• Determined not to have been an enemy combatant after all.^[27]

• "Abdul, you have indicated that there are a lot of people in Afghanistan that sell poor people like you to the United States, who sold you to the United States?^[62]
• Allegedly captured at a checkpoint established following a skirmish with US forces outside the village of Lejay, on February 10, 2003.^[63]
• Allegedly was suffering temporary hearing loss, allegedly incurred firing weapons.^[62]
• Allegedly captured with other men who had triggered the suspicions of the GIs on the scene.^[64]
• Wahab was regarded as a threat to the USA because his brother lost his leg to a Soviet land-mine eighteen years earlier, when they were children.^[65]
• Allegedly was "non-compliant" while in custody, and committed a "hostile act".

• "Yes, sir. I am a poor person, and he is a poor person. We don't have any enemies, so they handed us to you; probably someone sold us to you. I drive someone else's tractor; we are poor people."^[66]
• Allegedly captured following a skirmish with US forces outside the village of Lejay, on February 10, 2003.^[67]
• Allegedly threw his weapon down a well and hid in a hole.^[66]
• Had called on the testimony of a neighbor, during his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, who Guantanamo counter-terror analysts were convinced was a rebel squad leader.^[68]
• Testified that the suspicious neighbor was a drug addict who couldn't feed his own children, and had to beg from his neighbors.

• "Anybody else knows there's been 30 years of war in Afghanistan and everybody, door-to-door, they have animosity against each other. Lots of animosity between tribes and neighbors, and ####################' traded me and sold me for money."
• Alleged to have executed three members of his village, at the Taliban's command.^[69]
• Allegedly the Police Commander of Sherberghan, with 40 subordinates answering to him.^[70]
• Allegedly was a childhood friend of the Taliban's Governor of his province.^[71]

• "The Americans didn't capture mc. The Mafia captured me. They sold me to the Americans,"^[72]
• Allegedly contacted al Qaida leader Abdul Haq, upon arrival in Istanbul, Turkey in April of 2001.

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• Sada Jan reported a serious case of abuse, when he was taken into American custody.^[74]

He also reported he believed he was falsely denounced by someone who received a bounty::

• "I have nothing to say because Pm still saying I'm innocent. I should not be here. I shouldn't even be at this Tribunal. I'm innocent, and I don't know why I'm here. I'm requesting that I'm still innocent. I have small children at home, and I still want to support the new government Actually, the Taliban was very oppressive. You are good people and respect human rights. Whoever sold me took money from the Americans. Whoever reported me, I'm thinking, was a friend of the government. When Americans came to my house, they said lay down on the floor. I laid down. They took me away for two days and beat me up badly. I'm still sick since that time. I'm not blaming you. The new people do not want the new government growing up. Americans hit me and beat me up so badly, I believe that I'm sexually dysfunctional. I don't know if I'll be able to sleep with my wife or not. Since that time, I'm really sick. I can't control my urination, and sometimes I put toilet paper down there so I won't wet my pants. I will not say anything if there is justice and honesty. I'll leave that up to you. I just say I'm very innocent"

• Alleged that documents found on his property tied him to the Taliban.^[75]
• Claims he was working in Iran during the Taliban regime. Claims a fleeing Taliban members car broke down on his property, and that the document cames from that car.^[76]
• Claims he set up a co-educational school when he returned to Afghanistan following the Taliban's collapse — something he would have been punished for under the Taliban.