Mohammed Yusif Yaqub

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Mohammed Yusif Yaqub (?-May 7, 2004) was a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 367. The Department of Defense reports he was born in Nimbrooz, Afghanistan. Guantanamo intelligence analysts provided a date of birth, or an estimated year of birth for all but twenty Guantanamo captives. Mohammed Yusif Yaqub is one of the twenty whose age is not specified.

[edit] Release

The Department of Defense has released two official lists of Guantanamo captives.

  • The name Mohammed Yusif Yaqub is present on the list of 759 captives the Department of Defense acknowledges had been held in Guantanamo.[1] This list was released on May 15, 2006.
  • The name Mohammed Yusif Yaqub is not present on the list of 558 captives whose "enemy combatant" status was reconfirmed by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[2] The Department of Defense started to convene the Tribunals in response to the United States Supreme Court ruling Rasul v. Bush in August 2004, implying he had already been release before Ausgust 2004/

[edit] Claim that Mohammed Yusif Yaqub "returned to the battlefield"

Starting in 2004 press reports, generally citing anonymous sources, claimed captives had talked their way out of detention, only to return to the battlefield. The number of captives who had returned to the battlefield kept growing. But these anonymous sources only revealed three names, Abdullah Mehsud, Mullah Shahzada, and Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar.

When the official list of all the captives who had been held in military custody at Guantanamo was released on May 15, 2006 it raised questions.[1] Abdullah Mehsud's name was absent from the official list of all the captives. While Guantanamo held a man named Shahzada, and two men named Abdul Ghaffar, they remained in detention long after their terrorist namesakes were reported to have been released, returned to the battlefield, only to have been killed in custody.

On May 14, 2007 Commander Jeffrey Gordon addressed these crticism.[3] He claimed that there had been thirty captives who returned to the battlefield. Mohammed Yusif Yaqub was one of the six men he explicity named.

Reuters quoted Gordon about Mohammed Yusif Yaqub:[3]

"...assumed control of Taliban operations in Southern Afghanistan after his release from Guantanamo, died fighting U.S. forces on May 7, 2004."

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
  2. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, April 20, 2006
  3. ^ a b David Morgan. "U.S. divulges new details on released Gitmo inmates", Reuters, Tuesday May 14, 2007. Retrieved on May 15. 
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