Abdul Samad (detainee)

Abdul Samad is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 911.

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Age

Main article: minors detained in the global war on terror

The US Department of Defense estimates he was born in 1982, in Zormat, Afghanistan.[1] The human rights organization Reprieve reports that the International Committee of the Red Cross estimates he was born in 1987.[2][3]

Capture

Samad was taken into custody during the raid on the compound of Samoud Khan, a renegade militia leader.[3] According to Andy Worthington, Samad and the other men and boys captured in Samoud's compound were "treated brutally in a forward operating base in Gardez until they confessed."

Repatriation

On October 9, 2009, the Department of Defense published a list of when captives were transferred from Guantanamo.[4] That list was published on November 26, 2009. According to that list Abdul Samad was repatriated on Sept. 18, 2004.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b OARDEC (2006-05-15). "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006". United States Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-29. 
  2. ^ "Juveniles in Guantanamo (.pdf)" (PDF). Reprieve. May 2, 2006. http://ejp.icj.org/IMG/AppendixK.pdf. Retrieved January 6, 2007. 
  3. ^ a b Andy Worthington. "The Guantánamo Files: Website Extras (12) – The Last of the Afghans (Part Two)". Archived from the original on 2010-01-20. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.andyworthington.co.uk%2Fthe-guantanamo-files-website-extras-12-the-last-of-the-afghans-part-two%2F&date=2010-01-20. Retrieved 2009-07-22. 
  4. ^ OARDEC (2008-10-09). "Consolidated chronological listing of GTMO detainees released, transferred or deceased". United States Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/09-F-0031_doc1.pdf. Retrieved 2008-12-28. 
  5. ^ "Abdul Samad - The Guantánamo Docket". The New York Times. http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/911-abdul-samad.