Abdur Sayed Rahaman is a citizen of Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

 who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States

United States

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 Guantanamo Bay detainment camp

Guantanamo Bay detainment camp

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s, in Cuba

Cuba

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American intelligence analysts estimate Rahaman was born in 1965, in Pishin, Pakistan.

Shed Abdur Rahman was captured in Pakistan in January 2002, was transferred to Guantanamo on June 16, 2002.

Press reports

On July 12, 2006 the magazine Mother Jones

Mother Jones (magazine)

Mother Jones is an American independent news organization, featuring investigative and breaking news reporting on politics, the environment, human rights, and culture. Mother Jones has been nominated for 23 National Magazine Awards and has won six times, including for General Excellence in 2001,...

 provided excerpts from the transcripts of a selection of the Guantanamo detainees.
Rahman was one of the detainees profiled.
According to the article:


Canadian journalist, and former special assistant to US President George W. Bush

George W. Bush

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, David Frum

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David J. Frum is a Canadian American journalist active in both the United States and Canadian political arenas. A former economic speechwriter for President George W. Bush, he is also the author of the first "insider" book about the Bush presidency...

, published an article based on his own reading of the transcripts from the Combatant Status Review Tribunals, on November 11, 2006.
It was Frum who coined the term "Axis of evil

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" for use in a speech he wrote for Bush.
Rahman's transcript was one of the nine Frum briefly summarized.
His comment on Rahman was:
Frum came to the conclusion that all nine of the men whose transcript he summarized had obviously lied.
He did not, however, state how he came to the conclusion they lied.
His article concluded with the comment:

Determined not to have been an Enemy Combatant

The Washington Post reports that Rahaman was one of 38 detainees who was determined not to have been an enemy combatant during his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
They report that Rahaman has been released.
The Department of Defense refers to these men as No Longer Enemy Combatants.