| Abdur Sayed Rahaman | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1965 (age 46–47) Pishin, Pakistan |
| Arrested | 2002-01 Pakistan |
| Released | 2005-03-11 Pakistan |
| Detained at | Guantanamo |
| Alternate name |
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| ISN | 581 |
| Status | determined not to be an enemy combatant, after all |
Abdur Sayed Rahaman (also transliterated as Shed Abdur Rahman) is a citizen of Pakistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] American intelligence analysts estimate Rahaman was born in 1965, in Pishin, Pakistan.
Shed Abdur Rahman was captured in Pakistan in January 2002, was transferred to Guantanamo on June 16, 2002.[2][3][4][5]
On July 12, 2006 the magazine Mother Jones provided excerpts from the transcripts of a selection of the Guantanamo detainees.[6] Rahman was one of the detainees profiled. According to the article:
"Detainee 581 was accused of being Abdur Zahid Rahman, the Taliban’s former deputy foreign minister. He explained to the tribunal that he was, in fact, Abdur Sayed Rahman.
- rahman: The entire time I have been here, I have not seen anything proving that I did anything wrong…. I have been here for three years and the past three years, whatever I say, nobody believes me…. I never even hit my own child at home. Why would I go and torture and murder someone?... The only time I have ever been in Afghanistan was for two days to attend a funeral…. I was only a chicken farmer in Pakistan.
Canadian journalist, and former special assistant to US President George W. Bush, David Frum, published an article based on his own reading of the transcripts from the Combatant Status Review Tribunals, on November 11, 2006.[7] It was Frum who coined the term "Axis of evil" for use in a speech he wrote for Bush. Rahman's transcript was one of the nine Frum briefly summarized. His comment on Rahman was:
"A detainee identified by eyewitnesses as a Taliban military judge, who inflicted hideous punishments on hundreds of accused, explained to the tribunal that he was in fact only a humble chicken farmer. The question, 'What did you feed your chickens?' baffled this detainee. He answered: 'A mixture of foods they sell in the bazaar' (perhaps at the Afghan equivalent of Petco)."
Frum came to the conclusion that all nine of the men whose transcript he summarized had obviously lied.[7] He did not, however, state how he came to the conclusion they lied. His article concluded with the comment:
"But what’s the excuse of those in the West who succumb so easily to the deceptions of terrorists who cannot invent even half-way plausible lies?"
The Washington Post reports that Rahaman was one of 38 detainees who was determined not to have been an enemy combatant during his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[5] They report that Rahaman has been released. The Department of Defense refers to these men as No Longer Enemy Combatants.
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