Salah Mohammad Ali
| Salah Mohammad Ali | |
|---|---|
| Arrested | 2004 Iraq British forces |
| Detained at | Abu Ghraib, CIA black sites, Bagram |
| Other name(s) | Salah Din al-Bakistani |
| ISN | 1433 |
| Charge(s) | no charge, extrajudicial detention |
On January 15, 2010, the Department of Defense complied with a court order and published a list of Captives held in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility that included the name Salah Mohammad Ali.[1][2][3]
There were 645 names on the list, which was dated September 22, 2009, and was heavily redacted.[1][2]
According to historian Andy Worthington, author of the The Guantanamo Files, Salah Mohammad Ali is a Pakistani who grew up in the Persian Gulf states, and lived in Doha Qatar.[3] Worthington reports he was captured in Iraq in 2004, and that his presence in Bagram was first reported in 2005, by Abu Yahya al-Libi, a high-profile escaper from Bagram.
Human rights group Reprieve reports that British forces transfer of Salah Mohammad Ali, and other British captives, to US custody, refutes British denials that they had cooperated with the USA's "extraordinary rendition" program.[4] Reprieve reports he "is in catastrophic mental and physical shape", following abuse by his US and UK captors.
References
- ^ a b "Bagram detainees". Department of Defense. 2009-09-22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-01-17.
- ^ a b Andy Worthington (2010-01-19). "Dark Revelations in the Bagram Prisoner List". truthout. Archived from the original on 2010-01-25.
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Andy Worthington (2010-01-26). "Bagram: The First Ever Prisoner List (The Annotated Version)". Archived from the original on 2010-01-27.
This may be the man identified by Abu Yahya al-Libi (an al-Qaeda member who escaped from Bagram in July 2005) as Salah Din al-Bakistani, who lived in Doha, Qatar. According to al-Libi, he was seized in Iraq in 2004, and was apparently held in Abu Ghraib and another "torture prison."
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"The truth about two men rendered by the UK to Bagram". Reprieve. 2009-12-07. Archived from the original on 2010-01-27.
We have not been able to positively identify the second man, although our interviews with other released Bagram prisoners have gleaned some facts about him. He is apparently known as "Salahuddin". Significantly, he was brought up in the Gulf states (where the primary language is Arabic). "Salahuddin" has not been able to contact his family or even reassure them that he is alive. Reprieve has been told by multiple sources that as a result of his abuse in UK and US custody, "Salahuddin" is in catastrophic mental and physical shape, and now spends most of his time in the mental health cells at Bagram.