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- 1 2 3 4 Summarized transcripts (.pdf) [ dead link ], from Swar Khan's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 57-68
- 1 2 Majah Ha Adrif's and attendance at the Bonn Agreement, and an account of his death (.pdf) [ dead link ], from Swar Khan's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - page 63