Zakim Shah
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Zakim Shah was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 898. JTF-GTMO estimates that he was born in 1983, in Tora Oba, Afghanistan.
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[edit] Identity
Although the official list of names the Department of Defense, released on May 15, 2006, lists Zakim Shah as a citizen of Afghanistan, he was repatriated to Pakistan, not Afghanistan, on March 15, 2004.[2]
[edit] Capture
The New York Times reports that Zakim Shah was a married father of two who farmed near Khost, Afghanistan.[2] He was captured on December 1, 2002, the same day as taxi driver Dilawar, and his passengers, Abdur Rahim and two other men who have not been identified.
[edit] Bagram detention
Like Dilawar, Abdur Rahim, and Dilawar's other two passengers, Zakim Shah was sent to the Bagram Theater detention facility.[2] Unlike Dilawar Zakim Shah and Abdur Rahim survived their stay in Bagram.
Zakim Shah told the New York Times he was kept ten days in an isolation cell. He said:
""The Americans tied our hands very tight, spit in our faces and threw stones at us."
[edit] Guantanamo detention
In late December Zakim Shah and Abdur Rahim were transferred to Guantanamo. Zakim Shah told the New York Times:
"In Cuba, they gave us just short underwear. We told them we can't pray in this. In Cuba, they just have 10 Arabs they arrested in the fight. All the others are innocent and were sold [by Afghan bounty hunters]."
[edit] Repatriation and release
Zakim Shah, Abdur Rahim were transferred to Pakistani custody on March 15, 2004. He told the New York Times:
"In Cuba, when they were releasing me, they said not to tell people. We don't want to say anything bad about the Americans. They took all the [fingerprints]."
[edit] References
- ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
- ^ a b c "Guantánamo Memories, From Outside the Wire", New York Times, June 21, 2004. Retrieved on 2007-07-20.
