Kandahar detention facility

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The United States is known to have run a detention and interrogation facility in Kandahar, Afghanistan.[1]

A number of the captives were later transported to controversial extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1]

[edit] Captives reported to have been in held in American custody in Kandahar

Abdul Bin Mohammed Bin Abess Ourgy
  • Testified he was held in Kabul, Kandahar and Bagram before he was transferred to Guantanamo.[2]
Abdul Hai Mutmaen
Fazal Mohammad
  • An alleged former Taliban commander, asserted that the authorities in Kandahar fed the captives starvation rations; did not treat their wounds; subjected them to beatings, sexual humiliation, and attacks by vicious dogs.[3]
Khirullah Said Wali Khairkhwa
  • Khirullah Khairkhwa was the Taliban's Governor of Herat Province in 2000 and early 2001.
  • Fazal Mohammad reported he had seen Khirullah Khairkhwa being abused when they were both held in Kandahar in 2002.[3]
  • Khirullah Khairkhwa was transferred to Guantanamo.[4]
Murat Kurnaz
  • A German resident, has testified before the German parliament that his American captors allowed German special forces to beat and threaten him in Kandahar.[5][6][7][1]
  • Eventually transferred to Guantanamo.
Sayed Nabi Siddiqui
  • Afghan police officer who claims he was abused during 40 days he spent in US custody in 2004.[8][9]
  • Sayed Nabi Siddiqui reports being held in Gardez, Kandahar, Bagram [8]
Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil
  • Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil was the last Taliban Foreign Minister.[10]
  • Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil sent the USA prior warning of the upcoming attacks on September 11, 2001.[10]
  • Defected from the Taliban in October 2001, prior to his capture.[11]
  • Fazal Mohammad reported he had seen Muttawakil being abused when they were both held in Kandahar in 2002.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c John Goetz, Holger Stark. "German Soldiers under fire: New Testimony May Back Kurnaz Torture Claims", Der Spiegel, September 3, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-09-03. 
  2. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdul Bin Mohammed Bin Abess Ourgy's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 34-42
  3. ^ a b c d e "Taliban prisoner claims sex abuse in Afghan jail", Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sunday, July 28, 2002. Retrieved on 2007-07-03. 
  4. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
  5. ^ "Did German soldiers abuse ex-prisoner?", United Press International, January 8, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-01-08. 
  6. ^ "German Soldiers Accused of Abusing Terror Suspect", Deutsche Welle, January 8, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-01-08. 
  7. ^ "Germany probes 2 in ex-Guantanamo inmate abuse case", Reuters, January 8, 2007. Retrieved on January 8. 
  8. ^ a b Carlotta Gall. "An Afghan Gives His Own Account of U.S. Abuse", New York Times, May 12, 2004. Retrieved on 2007-09-14. 
  9. ^ "US military hit by fresh prisoner abuse allegations", Australian Broadcasting Corporation, May 15, 2004. Retrieved on 2007-09-14. 
  10. ^ a b Kate Clark. "Taleban 'warned US of huge attack'", BBC, Saturday, September 7, 2002. Retrieved on 2007-01-16. 
  11. ^ "Taleban minister's 'peace role' mystery", BBC, Wednesday, October 17, 2001. Retrieved on 2007-07-01.