Guantanamo detainees who were previously Taliban prisoners

The United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba contains a dozen or more detainees who were previously Taliban prisoners.

According to the Associated Press Commander Jeffrey Gordon, a Department of Defense spokesman defended the men's continued detention^[1]:

“Multiple reviews and designations have been conducted since each unlawful enemy combatant was captured, to include during initial detention overseas to lengthy procedures at Guantanamo,”

Ilkham Turdbyavich Batayev	Used as a kitchen slave by the Taliban.^[2]
Adil Uqla Hassan Al Nusayri
Abd Al Rahim Abdul Rassak Janko
Jamal Udeen Al-Harith	Paid a driver to take him from Pakistan to Iran, without realizing that his driver would take near the Afghanistan border, where the Taliban seized him as an American spy, based on his British passport.^[3] Went directly from custody in a Taliban jail to US custody.
Siddeeq Ahmad Siddeeq Noor Turkistani	Turkistani was imprisoned by the Taliban for four and a half years, because he was alleged to have been involved in a plot to kill al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Turkistani admits being opposed to the Taliban, Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, but he denies that he was involved in any plots.^[4]
Airat Vakhitov	Fled Russia for Tajikistan, in 1999, to avoid harassment by the Russian authorities; was forced by members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, to travel to Afghanistan; when he was thrown into prison because the Taliban suspected he was a Russian spy.^[5]
Abdul Hakim Bukhary	According to the BBC Bukhary had been jailed by the Taliban for expressing approval of Ahmad Shah Massoud, a Northern Alliance leader assassinated on September 9, 2001.^[6]
Qari Hasan Ulla Peerzai
Arkan Mohammad Ghafil Al Karim
Rashid Awad Rashid Al Uwaydah
Amin Ullah
Abdul Matin
Hamidullah

References

^ Paul Haven (June 30, 2007). "From Taliban jail to Gitmo – hard-luck prisoners tell of unending ordeal". San Diego Union Tribune. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070630-0908-guantanamo-alwaysaprisoner.html. Retrieved 2007-07-01.
^ Distant Justice: How a Portland lawyer is trying to help one Guantánamo detainee return to his life as a fruit trader, Willamette Week, August 9, 2006
^ The most hapless tourist in the world: It's no holiday when the Taliban deem you a spy and the US labels you a terrorist, The Age, March 13, 2004
^ Detainee Cleared for Release Is in Limbo at Guantanamo, Washington Post, December 14, 2005
^ "Thumbnails of the 9 men at Guantanamo Bay who were once Taliban prisoners". International Herald Tribune. 2007-06-30. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/01/news/CB-FEA-GEN-Guantanamo-Thumbnails.php. Retrieved 2007-07-02.
^ Guantanamo Bay: The testimony, BBC, March 4, 2006

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