Haji Faiz Mohammed ( ar, محمد حجي فز) is an elderly

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i man who was held and interrogated by the United States military in the

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s, in

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. Mohammed spent about eight months in Guantanamo and was repatriated on October 28, 2002.

Detention in Guantanamo

Mohammed was flown to the U.S. military detention camp in Guantanamo in 2002 after being swept up in a raid by troops in Afghanistan. An assessment written by the Joint Task Force Guantanamo says. "There is no reason on the record for detainee being transferred to Guantánamo Bay detention facility," Faiz was released in October 2002 after being held for eight months, and was put in the Medical Scientific Academy Hospital in

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Mohammed's age

Mohammed, who American intelligence analysts estimate was approximately 72 years old at the time, said the Americans had initially seized him during a hospital visit in Uruzgan. He says he was blindfolded and bound, then flown to

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in a helicopter. Reports suggest that he bordered on

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and initially claimed that he was over a hundred years old. The

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said that he was "babbling at times like a child...struggled to complete sentences and strained to hear words that were shouted at him.

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The oldest of the old: First 'hardcore' suspects freed from Camp Delta.. three Afghans, combined age 196
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Detention in Guantanamo

Mohammed's age

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