Mohammad Nabi Omari

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Mohammad Nabi

In this undated Guantanamo identity portrait Mohammad Nabi is wearing the tan uniform issues to "compliant" captives.
Born 1968 (age 45–46)
Metakhan village, Afghanistan
Arrested 2002-09-14
old Khowst Airport
US forces
Citizenship Afghanistan
Detained at BTIF, Guantanamo
Alternate name
  • Maulawa Mohammed Nabi
  • Mohammed Nabi Omari
ISN 832
Charge(s) no charge, extrajudicial detention

Mohammad Nabi Omari is a citizen of Afghanistan currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 832. American intelligence analysts estimate that he was born in 1968, in Khowst, Afghanistan.

He arrived at the Guantanamo detention camps on October 28, 2002, and has been held there for 11 years, 3 months, and 14 days.[2][3][4]

According to the Wall Street Journal he is one of five senior Taliban leaders still in custody at Guantanamo, and that the Obama Presidency had been negotiating with the Taliban to exchange these five leaders for Bowe Bergdahl.[5]

See also: Taliban five

Scholars at the Brookings Institute, lead by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations:[6]

  • Mohammad Nabi Omari was listed as one of the captives who the military alleges were members of either al Qaeda or the Taliban and associated with the other group.[6]
  • Mohammad Nabi Omari was listed as one of the captives whose "names or aliases were found on material seized in raids on Al Qaeda safehouses and facilities."[6]
  • Mohammad Nabi Omari was listed as one of the captives who was a member of the Taliban leadership.[6]
  • Mohammad Nabi Omari was listed as one of "36 [captives who] openly admit either membership or significant association with Al Qaeda, the Taliban, or some other group the government considers militarily hostile to the United States."[6]
  • Mohammad Nabi Omari was listed as one of the captives who admitted "serving Al Qaeda or the Taliban in some non-military capacity."[6]

During his Combatant Status Review Tribunal Omari acknowledged he had worked for the Taliban, but claimed that was prior to 9-11.[7] He claimed that after the US invasion he had been a loyal supporter of the Hamid Karzai government, and that he had been a covert operative for a US intelligence officer he knew only as "Mark".

References

  1. ↑ OARDEC (May 15, 2006). "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. Retrieved 2007-09-29. 
  2. ↑ JTF-GTMO (2007-03-16). "Measurements of Heights and Weights of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba". Department of Defense. Retrieved 2008-12-22.  mirror
  3. ↑ "Measurements of Heights and Weights of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (ordered and consolidated version)". Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas, from DoD data. Archived from the original on 2009-12-21. 
  4. ↑ Margot Williams (2008-11-03). "Guantanamo Docket: Mohammad Nabi Omari". New York Times. 
  5. ↑ "The Taliban Five: Meet the men the U.S. might release as a goodwill gesture". Wall Street Journal. 2012-02-13. Archived from the original on 2013-08-14. Retrieved 2013-08-14. "The Obama Administration is pursuing peace talks with the Taliban, and as a goodwill gesture it has been leaking the news that it may pre-emptively release five of their leaders held at Guantanamo." 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Benjamin Wittes, Zaathira Wyne (2008-12-16). "The Current Detainee Population of Guantánamo: An Empirical Study". The Brookings Institute. Archived from the original on 2012-06-22. Retrieved 2010-02-16. 
  7. ↑ "Summarized Unsworn Detainee Statement: ISN 832". United States Department of Defense. 2004. pp. 37–41. Archived from the original on 2006-07-22. Retrieved 2013-08-14. 

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