Mohammad Nabi Omari
| Mohammad Nabi Omari | |
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| In this identity portrait Mohammad Nabi is wearing the tan uniform issued to compliant captives while detained at Guantanamo Bay. | |
| Minister of Communications | |
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| Born | 1968 Khowst, Afghanistan |
| Political party | Taliban |
| Religion | Islam (Deobandi)[1] |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Taliban |
| Battles/wars | Afghan civil war War in Afghanistan |
Mohammad Nabi Omari is a citizen of Afghanistan who was detained for nearly twelve years in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[2] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 832. He was transported from Guantanamo Bay to Qatar where he was released on June 1, 2014, along with four other members of the Taliban five in exchange for captured U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl. The swap was brokered by the Emir of Qatar. Omari and the others were required to stay in Qatar for a year as a condition of their release.[3]
American intelligence analysts estimate that he was born in 1968, in Khowst, Afghanistan.
He arrived at the Guantanamo detention camps on October 28, 2002.
Scholars at the Brookings Institution, led by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations:[4]
- 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.[4]
- 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."[4]
- Mohammad Nabi Omari was listed as one of the captives who was a member of the Taliban leadership.[4]
- 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."[4]
- Mohammad Nabi Omari was listed as one of the captives who admitted "serving Al Qaeda or the Taliban in some non-military capacity."[4]
During his Combatant Status Review Tribunal Omari acknowledged he had worked for the Taliban, but claimed that was prior to 9-11.[5] 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
- ↑ Deobandi Islam: The Religion of the Taliban U. S. Navy Chaplain Corps, 15 October 2001
- ↑ OARDEC (May 15, 2006). "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
- ↑ "American soldier held captive in Afghanistan is now free". MSNBC. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Benjamin Wittes, Zaathira Wyne (2008-12-16). "The Current Detainee Population of Guantánamo: An Empirical Study" (PDF). The Brookings Institution. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2012-06-22. Retrieved 2010-02-16.
- ↑ "Summarized Unsworn Detainee Statement: ISN 832" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. 2004. pp. 37–41. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2006-07-22. Retrieved 2013-08-14.
External links
- Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Eight: Captured in Afghanistan (2002-07) Andy Worthington
- The Guantánamo Files: Website Extras (11) – The Last of the Afghans (Part One) and Six “Ghost Prisoners” Andy Worthington
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