Mohammed Ismail

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Mohammed Ismail is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1]

Ismail's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 930.^[1]^[2] US intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1984 in Dourbani, Afghanistan.

Main article: minors detained in the global war on terror

There was a detainee named Muhammad Ismail Agha who was under sixteen when he was captured, who was detained in Camp Iguana, with two other teenage boys. He was released on January 28, 2004. Agha, and the other two minors detained in Camp Iguana, are among the Guantanamo detainees missing from the official list.

[edit] Alleged to have "returned to the battlefield"

On May 14, 2007 Department of Defense officials testified before the United States Congress that thirty former Guantanamo captives had "returned to the battlefield".^[3] The officials named six of those individuals, including Mohammed Ismail.^[4]

Reuters reports that the officials asserted Mohammed Ismail was:^[4]

"Released from Guantanamo in early 2004, he was recaptured four months later in May while participating in an attack on U.S. forces near Kandahar. When captured, Ismail carried a letter confirming his status as a Taliban member in good standing."

On July 16, 2007 the Department of Defense issued a press release entitled: Ex-Guantanamo Detainees who have returned to the fight.^[5]

The Press release asserted:

"Ismail was released from GTMO in 2004. During a press interview after his release, he described the Americans saying, "they gave me a good time in Cuba. They were very nice to me, giving me English lessons." He concluded his interview saying he would have to find work once he finished visiting all his relatives. He was recaptured four months later in May 2004, participating in an attack on US forces near Kandahar. At the time of his recapture, Ismail carried a letter confirming his status as a Taliban member in good standing."