Alif Mohammed is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
[edit] Press reports
On July 12, 2006 the magazine Mother Jones provided excerpts from the transcripts of a selection of the Guantanamo detainees.[1] Mohammed was one of the detainees profiled.
Alef Mohammead was interviewed by the New York Times following his repatriation.[2] He claimed that his brothers were killed when US warplanes bombarded his village in 2003.
[edit] Repatriation
Alef Muhammad was repatriated on December 16, 2006 to the custody of the Afghan Commission for Peace and Reconciliation along with six other men. They were released on December 17, 2006. [3][4]
The New York Times reported that Muhammad was from "the Baghran district in Helmand".[3] According to their reports he stated:
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- "Is this my fault that I believe in the words, 'There is no God but Allah?' Other than that there is no witness and no evidence of my guilt."[3]
- "We had to eat, pray and go to the toilet in the same cell that was 2 meters long and 2 meters wide.[3]
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