Noor Habib Ullah is a citizen of
Afghanistan
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who was held in
extrajudicial detention
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in the
United States
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's
Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in
Cuba
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["Noor Habib Ullah"]
''The New York Times
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] Habibullah was one of three former captives who McClatchy Newspapers profiled;
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Bagram
Bagram (; Pashto/ fa, بگرام) is a town and seat in Bagram District in Parwan Province of Afghanistan, about 60 kilometers north of the capital Kabul. It is the site of an ancient city located at the junction of the Ghorband and Panjshir ...
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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 626.
Habibullah was repatriated on 16 July 2003.
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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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Noor Habib was captured in November 2001 in
Bamian Province when he and another man were transporting a shipment of goats.
[ He said he was held by Afghan militia for several months, and then several months in the American ]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 ...
. He reported brutal beatings in both Afghan custody, and in Kandahar.["WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Seven of Ten)"]
Andy Worthington
Andy Worthington is a British historian, investigative journalist, and film director.
He has published three books, two on Stonehenge and one on the war on terror, been published in numerous publications and directed documentary films. Artic ...
Noor Habib was transported to Guantanamo in mid-2002.[ Before he was released, in the summer of 2003, shortly before he was repatriated, he was told that he had been suspected of being a Taliban commander.][
The McClatchy reporters had confirmed that Afghan intelligence officials who had confirmed when their records indicated when other former captives had ties to the Taliban—or when they had been falsely denounced—had no records of Noor Habib.][
Noor Habib said he had been a simple truck driver prior to his apprehension, in ]Bamian
Bamyan or Bamyan Valley (); ( prs, بامیان) also spelled Bamiyan or Bamian is the capital of Bamyan Province in central Afghanistan. Its population of approximately 70,000 people makes it the largest city in Hazarajat. Bamyan is at an alti ...
in November 2001, and he had no ties with the Taliban.[
He had spent four months in an Afghan detention facility in Bamian, where Afghans abused him, and had then spent several months 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 ...
, where Americans abused him. He spent a year in Guantanamo, before two American officials informed him he had been mistaken for a senior Taliban official, and he was flown home.
BBC interview
The BBC interviewed 27 former captives held in Bagram in June 2009.[
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The BBC Report featured Noor Habib making a drawing of a man shackled to the ceiling, while the narrator said he described being chained to the ceiling with his feet suspended in freezing cold water.
See also
*Bagram torture and prisoner abuse
In 2005, '' The New York Times'' obtained a 2,000-page United States Army investigatory report concerning the homicides of two unarmed civilian Afghan prisoners by U.S. military personnel in December 2002 at the Bagram Theater Internment Facil ...
References
External links
Allegations of abuse and neglect at a US detention facility in Afghanistan - BBC videoReport on ex-Guantánamo prisoners reveals systematic abuse and chronic failures of intelligence
Andy Worthington
Guantanamo Inmate Database: Noor Habib - UC DavisMcClatchy News Service - video
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Afghan extrajudicial prisoners of the United States
Living people
Guantanamo detainees known to have been released
Kandahar detention facility detainees
Bagram Theater Internment Facility detainees
1980 births