Bashir Ahmad
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Bashir Ahmad was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo detainee ID number is 1005 American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1975, in Chah Kote Wala, Pakistan.
[edit] Identity
Pakistan's Daily Times reports that a man named Bashir Ahmed, from Jhang, was repatriated to Pakistan in the fall of 2004.[2][3] beeni
[edit] Release
The Daily Times reported that Bashir Ahmed was repatriated with sixteen other men. The seventeen men were released from Pakistani custody on June 28, 2005.[2][3] Accordint to Daily Times Punjab's chief minister’s adviser on religious affairs, Maulana Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi, said local authorities wanted to investigate whether the men had been brainwashed and were still involved in any terrorist activity.
There is no record that Bashir Ahmed's enemy combatant status was reviewed by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
- ^ a b "17 ex-Guantanamo prisoners released", Daily Times, Tuesday, June 28, 2005. Retrieved on January 21.
- ^ a b "17 ex-Gitmo detainees freed", The Nation (Pakistani newspaper), June 28, 2005. Retrieved on January 21.
- ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, April 20, 2006
