Mohammed Al Afghani is a citizen of
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...
, held by the
United States
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in the
CIA
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's network of
black sites.
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Background
Amnesty International
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reports he was born in
Saudi Arabia
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; that he was captured in
Peshawar, Pakistan, in May 2004;
[ that he was transferred from Pakistani custody on June 15, 2004, to CIA custody with three other men, including ]Marwan Jabour
Marwan Jabour is a former captive held in the CIA's network of black sites.
He was raised him Saudi Arabia by his Palestinian guest worker parents.
He moved to Pakistan for study, in 1994.
The ''Washington Post'' interviewed Mawrwan Jabour at ...
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Disappearance
On April 22, 2009 '' Propublica'' published a list of CIA captives and its estimate of their current status.[
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The location and status of most of the individuals on that list were described simply as "unknown". They estimated that Mohammed Al Afghani had been transferred to the 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 ...
.
The Department of Defense has acknowledged holding an individual they named as "Muhammad Rahim al Afghani
Muhammad Rahim is an Afghan who is held in captivity by the United States Government at Guantanamo Bay. He was born in eastern Afghanistan. Muhammad Rahim worked for an Afghan government committee that worked to eliminate opium poppies from the n ...
"—but they said he was captured in Lahore
Lahore ( ; pnb, ; ur, ) is the second most populous city in Pakistan after Karachi and 26th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 13 million. It is the capital of the province of Punjab where it is the largest city. ...
, Pakistan in 2007.[
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See also
*List of people who disappeared
Lists of people who disappeared include those whose current whereabouts are unknown, or whose deaths are unsubstantiated. Many people who disappear are eventually declared dead ''in absentia''. Some of these people were possibly subjected to enfo ...
References
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2000s missing person cases
Afghan extrajudicial prisoners of the United States
Missing people
Year of birth missing
Missing person cases in Pakistan
People subject to extraordinary rendition by the United States