Noor Habib Ullah

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Noor Habib Ullah
Born1980 (age 43–44)
Jalalabad, Afghanistan
ArrestedNovember 2001
Bamian Province, Afghanistan
Detained at  Kandahar Internment Facility, Guantanamo
ISN 626
Charge(s)No charge (extrajudicial detention)
StatusRepatriated on 16 July 2003
Occupation truck driver

Noor Habib Ullah (born 1980) is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. [1] [2] Habibullah was one of three former captives who McClatchy Newspapers profiled; [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] he also appeared in a BBC interview which claimed he was abused while interned at Bagram. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 626.

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Habibullah was repatriated on 16 July 2003. [9]

McClatchy News Service interview

On June 15, 2008 the McClatchy News Service published a series of articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives. [10]

Noor Habib was captured in November 2001 in Bamian Province when he and another man were transporting a shipment of goats. [11] He said he was held by Afghan militia for several months, and then spent several months in the American Kandahar detention facility. He reported brutal beatings in both Afghan custody, and in Kandahar. [11]

Noor Habib was transported to Guantanamo in mid-2002. [8] 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. [8] [11]

The McClatchy reporters had stated that the Afghan intelligence officials—who had previously confirmed to them when their records indicated if a former captive had ties to the Taliban or had been falsely denounced—had no records of Noor Habib. [8]

Noor Habib said he had been a simple truck driver prior to his apprehension, in Bamian in November 2001, and he had no ties with the Taliban. [8] 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, 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. [12] [13] [14] 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.

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  2. ↑ "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006" (PDF). United States Department of Defense . Retrieved 2006-05-15.
  3. ↑ Tom Lasseter (June 18, 2008). "U.S. hasn't apologized to or compensated ex-detainees". Myrtle Beach Sun. Archived from the original on June 19, 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
  4. ↑ Tom Lasseter (June 15, 2008). "Pentagon declined to answer questions about detainees". McClatchy News Service. Archived from the original on June 15, 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
  5. ↑ Tom Lasseter (June 16, 2008). "Documents undercut Pentagon's denial of routine abuse". McClatchy News Service. Archived from the original on June 19, 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
  6. ↑ Tom Lasseter (June 19, 2008). "Deck stacked against detainees in legal proceedings". McClatchy News Service. Archived from the original on June 20, 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
  7. ↑ Tom Lasseter (June 16, 2008). "U.S. abuse of detainees was routine at Afghanistan bases". McClatchy News Service. Archived from the original on June 20, 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 Tom Lasseter (June 15, 2008). "Guantanamo Inmate Database: Noor Habib". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on September 20, 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-17.
  9. ↑ OARDEC (2008-10-09). "Consolidated chronological listing of GTMO detainees released, transferred or deceased" (PDF). Department of Defense. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-12-20. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
  10. ↑ Tom Lasseter (June 15, 2008). "Guantanamo Inmate Database: Page 3". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on March 4, 2009. Retrieved 2008-06-17. mirror
  11. 1 2 3 "WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Seven of Ten)", Andy Worthington
  12. ↑ Ian Pannell (2009-06-24). "Ex-detainees allege Bagram abuse". BBC News . Retrieved 2009-06-24.
  13. ↑ Ian Pannell (2009-06-24). "Ex-detainees allege Bagram abuse". BBC News . Retrieved 2009-06-24.
  14. ↑ Ben Farmer (2009-06-24). "Afghan prisoners claim they were abused in US jail: Prisoners held in a controversial US military jail have claimed they were beaten, deprived of sleep and threatened with dogs". Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 2009-06-24.
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