Ahmed Adil | |
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Born | 1973 (age 50–51) Kashgar, China |
Detained at | Guantanamo |
ISN | 260 |
Charge(s) | No charge (held in extrajudicial detention) |
Status | Transferred to a refugee camp in Albania. |
Ahmed Adil is a citizen of China who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] Adil's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 260. American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1973, in Kashgar, China.
Adil is one of approximately two dozen detainees from the Uyghur ethnic group.[2] Adil is one of approximately half a dozen Uyghurs whose Combatant Status Review Tribunals determined they were not enemy combatants after all.[3][4] Five of the Uyghurs were transferred to Albania.[5] Several others had new Tribunals convened that reversed the earlier determination.[6]
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The information paper also identified him as "Ahnad Adil".
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- The detainee supported the Taliban against the United States and its coalition partners:
- The detainee traveled to Jalalabad, Afghanistan from Pakistan in 2001.
- The detainee went to Afghanistan in October 2001 to receive training.
- The detainee traveled from Jalalabad to a Uighur camp in the Tora Bora mountains and stayed there for approximately forty-five days.
- Uighur groups in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have formed ties with Al Qaeda and other Islamic terrorist groups and China’s two principal militant Uighur groups are the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) and the East Turkistan Liberation Organization (ETLO).
- The East Turkistan Islamic Movement is listed in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Terrorist Organization Reference Guide, as being one of the most militant groups, and has financial and training ties to Al Qaeda.
- While in the Tora Bora Mountains, the detainee learned how to “break down” the Kalashniko.
- The detainee was in the Tora Bora mountains when the U.S. bombing campaign occurred.
- Pakistani soldiers, while fleeing Afghanistan into Pakistan, captured the detainee, along with other Uighurs and Arabs.
On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a six page summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[8]
Adil wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on January 19, 2006.[9] In it he wrote that his Tribunal determined he was innocent on May 9, 2005. He said he was appealing directly to Rice because he had tried all other options.
On May 5, 2006 the Department of Defense announced that they had transferred five Uyghurs who had been determined not to have been enemy combatants, to Albania.[10] Seventeen other Uyghurs continue to be held at Guantanamo, because their CSRTs determined they were enemy combatants.
On June 15, 2008 the McClatchy News Service published articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives. McClatchy reporters interviewed Ahmed Adil.[11][12] During his interview Ahmed Adil described life in the Uyghur construction camp:
"It was a simple life, but there was food and shelter, and company. I'd only been there 45 days when the bombing started. At first I wasn't worried, because it had nothing to do with me. But then it did. The bombs got close."
Ahmed Adil told his interviewers that he spent long periods in solitary confinement, in a cell that was only 3 x 6 feet, and that he was always chained to the floor during his interrogations.[12]
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Currently held in Guantanamo | |
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Released to Albania in May 2006 | |
Released to Bermuda in June 2009 | |
Released to Palau in October 2009 | |
Released to Switzerland in March 2010 |
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