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Abdul Ghaffar ʻAbd al-Ghaffār (ALA-LC romanization of ar, عبد الغفار) is a male Muslim given name, and, in modern usage, surname, built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and '' al-Ghaffār'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to th ...

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Maulvi Mawlawi ( ar, مولوي; also spelled Maulvi, Molvi, Moulavi and Mawlvi) is an Islamic religious title given to Muslim religious scholars, or ulama, preceding their names, similar to the titles Mawlānā, Mullah, or Sheikh. Mawlawi generally ...

Abdul Ghaffar (1969 – September 25, 2004) was an

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who was held by the

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in the

Guantanamo Bay detainment 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

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.Gitmo Detainees Return To Terror
'' CBS News'', October 17, 2004 His Guantanamo

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was 363. Born in 1969 in Karabagh, Ghazni Province, Shai Jahn Ghafoor was a citizen of Afghanistan. On September 9, 2001, he worked as a farmer and clay laborer in Karabakh village, Helmand Province, when he was forced by the Taliban to work as a supply driver in

Taloqan Taloqan ( Persian, also transcribed Taleqan or Taluqan) is the capital of Takhar Province, in northeastern Afghanistan. It is located in the Taluqan District. The population was estimated as 196,400 in 2006. In 2021, the Taliban gained contro ...

to transport food supplies to frontlines in Takhar province. After the Fall of Kunduz in November 2001, he was arrested on November 26, 2001, and transported from Yarganak Pass through Mazar-i-Sharif to a prison in

Sheberghan Sheberghān or Shaburghān ( Uzbek, Pashto, fa, شبرغان), also spelled ''Shebirghan'' and ''Shibarghan'', is the capital city of the Jowzjan Province in northern Afghanistan. The city of Sheberghan has a population of 175,599. It has four ...

, Jowzjan. He spent nine months of detention in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. He was released and transferred back to Afghanistan on March 23, 2003. Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar has been cited as an example of a Guantanamo detainee who tricked their way out of imprisonment, so they could "return to the battlefield."

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Dick Cheney cited Ghaffar as a justification for continuing to detain suspects at Guantanamo.Cheney defends Guantanamo as essential to war: VP says that if freed, prisoners would return to battlefield
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'', June 14, 2005 Ghaffar was captured about two months after the US

Invasion of Afghanistan In late 2001, the United States and its close allies invaded Afghanistan and toppled the Taliban government. The invasion's aims were to dismantle al-Qaeda, which had executed the September 11 attacks, and to deny it a safe base of operations ...

, and according to various accounts, he was only held by the Americans for eight months.Released Detainees Join Fight
, '' LA Times'', October 22, 2004 After his release, Ghaffar served as a leader within the

Taliban The Taliban (; ps, طالبان, ṭālibān, lit=students or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalist, militant Islamist, jihadist, and Pasht ...

. Ghaffar was killed along with two of his men in a gun battle during a raid on the night of September 25, 2004, in the village of Pishi,

Uruzgan Uruzgan ( Dari), also spelled as Urozgan or Oruzgan, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. Uruzgan is located in the center of the country. The population is 436,079, and the province is mostly a tribal society. Tarinkot serves as ...

province. Ghaffar was believed to have been the Taliban commander for Uruzgan and Helmand provinces.

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WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Three of Five)
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