:''There are multiple individuals named
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 ...
.''
Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar (1969 – September 25, 2004) was an
Afghan who was held by the
United States in the
Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in
Cuba.
[Gitmo Detainees Return To Terror]
''CBS News
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'', October 17, 2004 His Guantanamo
Internment Serial Number 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 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, 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."
Vice President Dick Cheney
Richard Bruce Cheney ( ; born January 30, 1941) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 46th vice president of the United States from 2001 to 2009 under President George W. Bush. He is currently the oldest living former U ...
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]
'' San Francisco Chronicle'', June 14, 2005
Ghaffar was captured about two months after the US
Invasion of Afghanistan, and according to various accounts, he was only held by the Americans for eight months.
[Released Detainees Join Fight]
, ''LA Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the Un ...
'', October 22, 2004
After his release, Ghaffar served as a leader within the
Taliban.
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 province.
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Ghaffar was believed to have been the Taliban commander for Uruzgan and Helmand provinces.
References
External links
WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Three of Five)Andy Worthington
Fox News, June 21, 2005
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2004 deaths
Guantanamo detainees known to have been released
1969 births