Muhibullo Abdulkarim Umarov

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Muhibullo Abdulkarim Umarov is a citizen of Tajikistan who reports being held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1]

1 Identity
2 Capture, detention by Americans, in the War on Terror
3 Bagram
4 Guantanamo
5 References

[edit] Identity

The first official list, of all Guantanamo detainees, who had been held in military custody, the US Department of Defense released, on May 15, 2006, listed his name as Moyuballah Homaro.^[2] Umarov's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 729. According to the Department of Defense, Umarov was born on October 6, 1980, in Alisurkhan, Tajikistan.

[edit] Capture, detention by Americans, in the War on Terror

Umarov traveled to Pakistan, as a refugee from Tajikistan's civil war, in 1994, where he finished his education.^[1] In May 2001, when he graduated, a new Tajikistan government gave him a passport. Umarov returned to Pakistan, seeking work, on his legitimate passport. He was caught up in round up of foreigners following Pakistan's first suicide bombing, in May 2002. Pakistan handed him over to the Americans, and he spent several months in Bagram, and two years in Afghanistan.

When Umarov was eventually released from Guantanamo the Americans did not return his passport. Instead they gave him a letter saying they no longer regarded him as a threat. Umarov says this letter, and his lack of real identity documents is a constant source of threats to his safety.

[edit] Bagram

Umarov spent several months under primitive and brutal conditions in an American prison in Bagram Airport.

"In two months at bagram, Umarov says, he had only one interrogation -- with an American woman who questioned him in Farsi and seemed confused as to why he was there. 'We were along in the room,' he says. 'She checked my documents and listened to my answers, then told me I wasn't guilty.'..."^[1]