Asadullah Jan is a citizen of
Pakistan who was held in
extrajudicial detention 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 was 47.
Joint Task Force -- Guantanamo
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analysts estimate he was born in 1981. However, he says he was only sixteen when he was captured in 2001.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts assert he is a citizen of Pakistan. He said he was a child of Afghan refugees, who was born in Pakistan.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts assert his name was "Asad Ullah". However, in interviews with reporters with the ''
McClatchy News Service'' in 2008, he said his name was "Asadullah Jan".
He was repatriated July 16, 2003.
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McClatchy News Service interview
On June 15, 2008, the
McClatchy News Service published a series of articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives.
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Asadullah Jan
was one of three former captives who had an article profiling him.
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Asadullah Jan explained that he was returning from a visit to relatives in
Zormat when he was stopped at a checkpoint in
Kohat, Pakistan and apprehended around the time of
Ramadan
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in 2001.
[Ramadan coincided with November in 2001.]
He was held in Pakistan, for approximately a month before his first interrogation by Americans.
His first interview was by a woman and two men, in civilian clothes, at the Pakistani jail.[
His interpreter said they were with the CIA, although they didn't identify themselves. He told his McClatchy interviewer their questions surprised him—apparently Pakistani security officials had told them he was a son of ]Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was a Saudi-born extremist militant who founded al-Qaeda and served as its leader from 1988 until Killing of Osama bin Laden, his death in 2011. Ideologically a Pan-Islamism ...
. The CIA officials had him transferred to US custody in the Kandahar detention facility. Guards beat him brutally upon his arrival, and routinely beat him and other captives, while he was detained there. His interrogators however never beat him. He described the conditions in the camp as primitive:
Asadullah Jan told his interviewer he personally saw a guard drop a Koran into a latrine.[
Asadullah Jan told his interviewer he was plagued by memories of Guantanamo, that mention of the USA would bring back troubling recollections.][
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See also
*Minors detained in the War on Terror
Juveniles held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp numbered fifteen, according to a 2011 study by the Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas at the University of California Davis. The U.S. State Department had publicly acknowledged ...
References
External links
The Guantánamo Files: Website Extras (3) – “Osama’s Bodyguards”
Andy Worthington
McClatchy News Service - video
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Guantanamo detainees known to have been released
Living people
1985 births