Munir Bin Naseer
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Munir Naseer is a citizen of Pakistan
who was held in extrajudicial detention
in the United States
's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba
.
His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 85.
He was repatriated on 30 November 2003.
Munir Naseer
was one of thee former captives who had an article profiling him.
At the time of his interview Munir Naseer was working in a call center as a Mortgage Brooker.
According to his McClatchy interviewer Munir Naseer chose a Dunkin Donuts for their interview, wore American style clothes and baseball cap, and spoke English with a Chicago
accent.
However according to his interviewer, Munir willingly acknowledged he astonished everyone who knew him by choosing to travel to Afghanistan to engage in jihad.
The interviewer reports he traveled to Afghanistan in "late 2001" -- without specifying if he traveled before or after al Qaeda's attack on the USA on September 11, 2001, or whether it was before or after the USA started to retaliate in October 2001.
He described being captured near Mazari Sharif when local Afghans claimed they were associated with the Taliban, and invited his group to join them for dinner, only to capture them and hand them over the a local Northern Alliance leader, who shipped them to the prison at Sherberghan.
He described being confined to an 8 feet (2.4 m) by 10 feet (3 m) cell with thirty-five other men. He described being ill with diarrhea when confined with the other men. He stated he was not beaten there, but he said guards arbitrarily removed captives and beat them, and beating so severe they killed the captives were routine.
After two and half months he was transferred to the Bagram Theater Internment Facility
, when he acknowledged being able to speak English.
He described being beaten there too. He said almost all the captives at Bagram were, like him, sold to the Americans for a bounty.
Munir Naseer described his interrogators in Guantanamo as lacking imagination, because they asked him the same questions, over and over again.
His interrogators in Guantanamo weren't brutal, like his interorogators in Bagram. But he described witnessing other captives go mad.
published height and weight records for all but ten of the captives held in Guantanamo.
Munir Naseem
is one of ten men whose height and weight records were withheld.
The Department of Defense has not offered an explanation for why no records for those ten men were published.
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
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...
.
His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 85.
He was repatriated on 30 November 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.Munir Naseer
was one of thee former captives who had an article profiling him.
At the time of his interview Munir Naseer was working in a call center as a Mortgage Brooker.
According to his McClatchy interviewer Munir Naseer chose a Dunkin Donuts for their interview, wore American style clothes and baseball cap, and spoke English with a Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
accent.
However according to his interviewer, Munir willingly acknowledged he astonished everyone who knew him by choosing to travel to Afghanistan to engage in jihad.
The interviewer reports he traveled to Afghanistan in "late 2001" -- without specifying if he traveled before or after al Qaeda's attack on the USA on September 11, 2001, or whether it was before or after the USA started to retaliate in October 2001.
He described being captured near Mazari Sharif when local Afghans claimed they were associated with the Taliban, and invited his group to join them for dinner, only to capture them and hand them over the a local Northern Alliance leader, who shipped them to the prison at Sherberghan.
He described being confined to an 8 feet (2.4 m) by 10 feet (3 m) cell with thirty-five other men. He described being ill with diarrhea when confined with the other men. He stated he was not beaten there, but he said guards arbitrarily removed captives and beat them, and beating so severe they killed the captives were routine.
After two and half months he was transferred to the Bagram Theater Internment Facility
Bagram Theater Internment Facility
The Parwan Detention Facility , also called the Bagram Theater Internment Facility, is a United States-run prison located next to Bagram Airfield in the Parwan Province of Afghanistan.It was formerly known as the Bagram Collection Point...
, when he acknowledged being able to speak English.
He described being beaten there too. He said almost all the captives at Bagram were, like him, sold to the Americans for a bounty.
Munir Naseer described his interrogators in Guantanamo as lacking imagination, because they asked him the same questions, over and over again.
His interrogators in Guantanamo weren't brutal, like his interorogators in Bagram. But he described witnessing other captives go mad.
Medical records
On March 16, 2007 the Department of DefenseUnited States Department of Defense
The United States Department of Defense is the U.S...
published height and weight records for all but ten of the captives held in Guantanamo.
Munir Naseem
is one of ten men whose height and weight records were withheld.
The Department of Defense has not offered an explanation for why no records for those ten men were published.
See also
- The Guantánamo Files: Website Extras (7) – From Sheberghan to Kandahar Andy Worthington
- video McClatchy News Service