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Eighteen Afghans were repatriated from Guantanamo on March 23, 2003.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] They spent three days in Afghan custody prior their eventual release. Only six other captives have been repatriated prior to these men.

Marc Kaufmann, of the Washington Post interviewed some of the eighteen men.[5] He reported they had each been issued a set of American style clothes, American running shoes, an American gym bag, and their medical records. He reported that the men had to rely on charity to get home. He reported that some of the men described brutal treatment and Koran desecration.

Names, as published by the DoD on November 26, 2008[9]
ISN name notes
ISN 119 Solaiman Dur Mohammed Shah
ISN 313 Sharghulab Mirmuhammad
  • Sharghulab Mirmuhammad's arrival time was missing from the record.[10][11][12]
  • His weight was recorded on on June 16, 2002, and four other occasions in 2002, and finally on March 18, 2003, five days before his transfer to Afghanistan. His wieght ranged from 168 pounds (76 kg) to 183 pounds (83 kg).
ISN 314 Ezat Khan
ISN 315 Yarass Ali Must
ISN 350 Ehsanullah (Guantanamo captive 350)
ISN 355 Nassir Malang
ISN 358 Mohammed Sargidene
ISN 360 Abdullah Edmondada
ISN 361 Murtazah Abdul Rahman
ISN 362 Shaibjan Torjan
ISN 363 Shai Jahn Ghafoor
ISN 638 Badshah Wali
ISN 640 Neyaz Walijan
ISN 644 Mirza Mohammed

  • Among those waiting was Wali Muhammad, a farmer from Ghorband, a district 40 miles north of Kabul, who was hoping to find his brother Mirza Muhammad, 30. 'He wrote us a letter through the Red Cross a month ago and said they were going to be released,' he said. 'He sent us a holy Koran and a pair of trousers in the package.'"[2]

ISN 645 Mohamed Kabel
ISN 658 Bismillah (Guantanamo captive 658)
ISN 671 Said Abasin
ISN 673 Alif Khan

The Washington Post briefly quoted five of the newly released Afghans on March 25 2003, including[5]:

name age
Sarajudim 24
Ehsannullah 29
Merza Khan
Said Abasin
Sulaiman Shah

In 2003, when the BBC News reported on the release, they quoted four captives:

Bismillah
Sher Gulab, from Jalalabad
Murtaza
Salaiman Shah

Carlotta Gall of the New York Times reported on the following captives, by name[2][3]:

name age
Sher Ghulab 1974 (age 49–50)
Yarghas 1972 (age 51–52)
Mirza Muhammad 1973 (age 50–51)
Abbassin 1983 (age 40–41)
Murtaza 1975 (age 48–49)

e-ariani

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name age
Salaiman Shah
Bismillah
Abbassin
Murtaza 1975 (age 48–49)
  • Asserted to have just one name, other references say there was a "Murtazah Abdul Rahman"[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Afghans reveal Guantanamo ordeal". BBC News. 2003-03-25. Archived from the original on 2009-12-21.
  2. ^ a b c Carlotta Gall (2003-03-25). "U.S. Returns 18 Guantánamo Detainees to Afghanistan". New York Times. Retrieved 2007-02-27. mirror
  3. ^ a b Carlotta Gall (2003-03-26). "A NATION AT WAR: IN AFGHANISTAN; 18 Ex-Guantánamo Captives Suddenly Out on Kabul Street". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-03-16. Eighteen Afghans who were returned from the American detention center at Guantánamo Bay were freed today by the Afghan authorities and suddenly found themselves, shaken and tired, on the streets of Kabul. The men are the largest group to be released from Guantánamo since the center was set up more than a year ago. Wearing new clothes provided by the American authorities, they stood at the Kabul prison gates, worrying about where to spend the night and how to get home. mirror
  4. ^ "Innocent Afghan wants US compensation for Guantanamo detention". Xinhua News. March 26, 2003. Retrieved 2007-02-27. mirror
  5. ^ a b c Marc Kaufman, April Witt (2003-03-26). "Returning Afghans Talk of Guantanamo: Out of Legal Limbo, Some Tell of Mistreatment". Washington Post. p. A12. Retrieved 2009-12-21. mirror
  6. ^ "How Bush kicked the (expletive) out of the Geneva Conventions" (Document). Globe and Mail. 2003-03-26. {{cite document}}: Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
  7. ^ a b "Terror prisoners' "brutal treatment"". e-ariani. 2003-03-25. Retrieved 2005. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help) mirror
  8. ^ "Afghans reveal Guantanamo ordeal". BBC News. 2003-03-25. Retrieved 2010-10-18. A fourth man, Bismillah, said he was arrested as an al-Qaeda suspect because he was deaf and could not understand the Americans' questions.
  9. ^ OARDEC (2008-10-09). "Consolidated chronological listing of GTMO detainees released, transferred or deceased" (PDF). Department of Defense. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
  10. ^ JTF-GTMO (2007-03-16). "Measurements of Heights and Weights of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba". Department of Defense. Retrieved 2008-12-22. mirror
  11. ^ Sonia Saini, Almerindo Ojeda. "Heights, weights, and in-processing dates". Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas. Archived from the original on 2009-12-21.
  12. ^ "Measurements of Heights and Weights of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (ordered and consolidated version)". Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas, from DoD data. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-12-21.

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