Talk:Akhtiar Mohammad (Guantanamo detainee 1036)
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[edit] conflation
The second and third allegations against Akhtiar were:
- The detainee is a member of Itihad Islami.
- The HiG is listed in the Terrorist Organization Reference Guide as having long-established ties with Usama Bin Laden.
This is entirely atypical of the pattern of allegations Guantanamo captives faced. There are literally several hundred, possibly more than a thousand instances where there were pairs of related allegations.
- The first allegation in these pairs was always an allegation of a specific association between the captive and an suspicious individual or organization.
- The second allegation was always a general explanation or justification as to why the individual or organization was considered suspicious.
- This pair of allegations would follow the pattern, except, to follow the pattern, it should have explained how Ittihad-E-Islami was suspicious, not Hezbi-E-Islami. In fact Ittihad-E-Islami remained a member of the Northern Alliance.
- Hezbi-E-Islami and Ittihad-E-Islami were both militia groups that had fought against the Soviets, during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Both groups fought resisted the Taliban. The Hezbi-E-Islami was a fundamentalist group. When the USA invaded the leader of Hezbi-E-Islami, a former Prime Minister of Afghanistan named Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and most of his followers, switched sides, and allied with the Taliban. This faction of the Hezbi-E-Islami was more opposed to invading foreigners, whether they were Soviet or American, than they were to the Taliban.
The Guantanamo authorities can't find the Hezbi-E-Islami ID card that they claim Akhtiar was captured with. Akhtiar acknowledged having an Ittihad-E-Islami ID card. He has been shown his Ittihad-E-Islami ID card. He denies all association with fundamentalists like the HIG.
I think I need to scale back the conclusion I came to, and failed to keep out of article space, that the Guantanamo intelligence analysts royally screwed up, and conflated Akhtiar's association with Ittihad-E-Islami, which remained one of the allies in the Northern Alliance, and the Hezbi-E-Islami Gulbuddin, which allied itself with the Taliban, after the American invasion.
Cheers! -- Geo Swan 06:21, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
