Mahmud Sadik (born 1952) 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 ...
who was held in the
United States
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Guantanamo Bay detention camps, 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 ...
was 512.
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.
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Mohammed Saduq was one of the former captives who had an article profiling him.
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Mohammed Saduq reported he was captured in his home in
Chaman
Chaman ( Balochi, Pashto and ur, ) is a city and recently claimed as a new district of Balochistan named Chaman District as it was earlier a part of district Qila Abdullah District located on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. It is the capital o ...
, not on a battlefield.
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His capture didn't surprise him because as the director of an orphanage, he was a civil servant appointed by the Taliban.][ The McClatchy article reported that the Tahia Maskan orphanage he directed:][
]...was, by most accounts, a place where children were malnourished and often beaten, another horrific corner of the Taliban world, but not an important post.
According to the first governor of Helmand Province
Helmand (Pashto/Dari: ; ), also known as Hillmand, in ancient times, as Hermand and Hethumand, is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, in the south of the country. It is the largest province by area, covering area. The province contains 13 ...
appointed by Hamid Karzai
Hamid Karzai (; Pashto/ fa, حامد کرزی, , ; born 24 December 1957) is an Afghan statesman who served as the fourth president of Afghanistan from July 2002 to September 2014, including as the first elected president of the Islamic Repub ...
, Shir Mohammed, stated Mohammed Saduq[
]...was not a military guy, he was not a minister, but he was someone the Taliban consulted with because he was seen as someone who understood politics.
Mohammed Saduq reported being beaten by guards in the Kandahar detention facility
Kandahar Central Jail, also known as Sarpuza Prison or Sarposa Prison, is a minimum security prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan. It has been historically used for the incarceration of common criminals of Kandahar Province. In the last two decades, the ...
and the Bagram Theater internment facility
The Parwan Detention Facility (also called Detention Facility in Parwan or Bagram prison) is Afghanistan's main military prison. Situated next to the Bagram Air Base in the Parwan Province of Afghanistan, the prison was built by the U.S. during t ...
, but not by his interrogators.[
He described conditions in these camps as primitive.
Mohammed Saduq acknowledged to his interrogators that he had met Mullah Mohammed Omar, and much of his interrogations focussed around these brief meetings.][
According to the McClatchy interviewer, Mohammed Saduq hopes the Taliban retake Afghanistan.][
During the ]Soviet occupation of Afghanistan
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Mohammed Saduq commanded Abdul Salam Zaeef, who was later to rise be 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 ...
's ambassador to Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...
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Saduq said that when he re-encountered Zaeef in Guantanamo his health seemed frail.
References
External links
The Guantánamo Files: Website Extras (9) – Seized in Pakistan (Part One)
Andy Worthington
McClatchy News Service - video
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Guantanamo detainees known to have been released
Afghan extrajudicial prisoners of the United States
Living people
1952 births