User:Geo Swan/gitmo/Mohammed Ali Shah

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'''Mohammed Ali Shah''' is an [[Iran]]ian citizen currently detained in [[Camp Delta]] at the [[United States]] naval base at [[Guantanamo Bay]]. During the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan Ali Shah fought with a moderate militar group, backed by the [[United States]]. After the Soviet withdrawal Ali Shah went to medical school, and became a doctor. On [[September 25]], [[2005]], [[Newsday]] published a two articles about Shah. One of them contains extensive excerpts from his [[Combatant Status Review Tribunal]]. The other contains a long discussion of Shah's ethnicity and how unlikely this made the allegations contained within his dossier. Ali Shah's dossier accused him of running guns to the [[Taliban]], and providing safe passage and a refuge to the fleeing family of a senior Taliban commander... :''"...Ali Shah's family, scholars and a former high-ranking Taliban official - voice astonishment at the charges, saying they betray a basic ignorance by U.S. forces of Afghan politics."'' :''That's because Ali Shah is a Shia Muslim, a member of the sect most brutalized by the Taliban and least likely to have any motive to help them. The American suggestion that a hard-line Taliban commander would send his family to Iran for safety is like imagining a former World War II Nazi general hiding his family in Israel, the Afghans said."'' ==External links== *[http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-woshah4440702sep25,0,3052763.story?coll=ny-worldnews-headlines One prisoner's story], [[Newsday]], September 25, 2005 *[http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-wotext4440703sep25,0,871705.story?coll=ny-worldnews-headlines In transcript, detainee answers U.S. charges], [[Newsday]], September 25, 2005 {{crime-bio-stub}} {{Iran-bio-stub}}