Abdul Majid Mahmoud
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Abdul Majid Mahmoud was held in extrajudicial detention
in the United States
's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba
.
His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 624.
Majid Mehmood was transferred to Pakistan on November 18, 2003.
Abdul Majid Mahmoud
was one of the former captives who had an article profiling him.
Abdul Majid Mahmoud said he was captured by Afghans in December 2001, held in brutal conditions, for four months.
He had shrapnel wounds when he was captured, but told his Afghan interrogators that he had traveled to Afghanistan merely to attend a wedding.
He said one of his Afghan captors told him he was being sold to the Americans for $5000.
He said he decided to tell his American interrogators the truth, that he had been recruited by the Taliban in Karachi
.
He said he was completely truthful during the four or five months he was held in the Kandahar detention facility. However, he noted, he was not treated any better than captives who continued to lie to their interrogators, and was sent to Guantanamo for further interrogation.
In 2003 he was force-fed when he joined a hunger strike to protest guards desecrating the koran
.
The McClatchy reporters imply that Abdul Majid Mahmoud spent twenty months in Guantanamo.
But the DoD's records indicate he only spent about thirteen months total in US custody. He spent a further year in Pakistani detention after his repatriation.
Extrajudicial detention
Arbitrary or extrajudicial detention is the detention of individuals by a state, without ever laying formal charges against them.Although it has a long history of legitimate use in wartime , detention without charge, sometimes in secret, has been one of the hallmarks of totalitarian states...
in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
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His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 624.
Majid Mehmood was transferred to Pakistan on November 18, 2003.
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.Abdul Majid Mahmoud
was one of the former captives who had an article profiling him.
Abdul Majid Mahmoud said he was captured by Afghans in December 2001, held in brutal conditions, for four months.
He had shrapnel wounds when he was captured, but told his Afghan interrogators that he had traveled to Afghanistan merely to attend a wedding.
He said one of his Afghan captors told him he was being sold to the Americans for $5000.
He said he decided to tell his American interrogators the truth, that he had been recruited by the Taliban in Karachi
Karachi
Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...
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He said he was completely truthful during the four or five months he was held in the Kandahar detention facility. However, he noted, he was not treated any better than captives who continued to lie to their interrogators, and was sent to Guantanamo for further interrogation.
In 2003 he was force-fed when he joined a hunger strike to protest guards desecrating the koran
Qur'an desecration
The term "Qur'an desecration" is defined as insulting the Qur'an by defiling or defacing it.Most traditional schools of Islamic law require wudu before a Muslim may touch the Qur'an, which is regarded as the literal word of God in its untranslated Arabic form...
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The McClatchy reporters imply that Abdul Majid Mahmoud spent twenty months in Guantanamo.
But the DoD's records indicate he only spent about thirteen months total in US custody. He spent a further year in Pakistani detention after his repatriation.