Abdul Majid Mahmoud was held in
extrajudicial detention
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in the
United States's
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp ( es, Centro de detención de la bahía de Guantánamo) is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, also referred to as Guantánamo, GTMO, and Gitmo (), on the coast of Guant ...
s, in
Cuba.
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His Guantanamo
Internment Serial Number An Internment Serial Number (ISN) is an identification number assigned to captives who come under control of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) during armed conflicts.
History
On March 3, 2006, in compliance with a court order from D ...
was 624.
Majid Mehmood was transferred to Pakistan on November 18, 2003.
McClatchy News Service interview
On June 15, 2008, the
McClatchy News Service
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published a series of articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives.
mirror
Abdul Majid Mahmoud
was one of the former captives who had an article profiling him.
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Abdul Majid Mahmoud said he was captured by Afghans in December 2001, held in brutal conditions, for four months.
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He had shrapnel wounds when he was captured, but told his Afghan interrogators that he had traveled to Afghanistan merely to attend a wedding.
He said one of his Afghan captors told him he was being sold to the Americans for $5000.][
He said he decided to tell his American interrogators the truth, that he had been recruited by the Taliban in Karachi.][
He said he was completely truthful during the four or five months he was held in the Kandahar detention facility. However, he noted, he was not treated any better than captives who continued to lie to their interrogators, and was sent to Guantanamo for further interrogation.
In 2003, he was force-fed when he joined a hunger strike to protest guards desecrating the koran.][
The McClatchy reporters imply that Abdul Majid Mahmoud spent twenty months in Guantanamo.][ However, the DoD's records indicate he only spent about thirteen months total in US custody. He spent a further year in Pakistani detention after his repatriation.
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See also
*Qur'an desecration
The Quran (, ; Standard Arabic: , Quranic Arabic: , , 'the recitation'), also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation from God. It is organized in 114 chapters (pl.: , sing ...
* Force-feeding
References
External links
McClatchy News Service - videoGuantanamo Inmate Database - Abdul Majid MahmoudReport on ex-Guantánamo prisoners reveals systematic abuse and chronic failures of intelligence
Andy Worthington
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Living people
1979 births
Guantanamo detainees known to have been released