Nahir Shah
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Administrative Review Board hearing
Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review BoardAdministrative Review Board
The Administrative Review Board is a United States military body that conducts an annual review of the suspects held by the United States in Camp Delta in the United States Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba....
hearings. The Administrative Review Boards weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".
They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat—or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free.
Shah chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.
Enemy Combatant election form
The notes from Nahir Shah's Assisting Military Officer's Enemy Combatant election form statethat they met for 30 minutes on November 15, 2005.
He described Nahir Shah as "very polite".
The following primary factors favorcontinued detention
- a. Connections/Associations
- Due to a financial dispute with an enemy of the family, the detainee claims the individual made false accusations ot military authorities claiming that he was in possession of weapons at his home.
- The detainee was identified as a Hizb-I-Islami Gulbuddin member who possibly held the rank of Deputy Commander. There were a large number of weapons in the compound in which he was captured.
- The detainee became angry when accused of having a connection with someone who was in the Hizb-I-Islami Gulbuddin or someone who was considered a terrorist.
- b. Other Relevant Data
- The detainee's route of egress from Afghanistan is as follows: The detainee traveled from TagabTagabTagab District is one of the 29 districts of Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan. It was created in 2005 from part of Fayzabad District and has a population of approximately 22,000 residents. The Karaste Canal is located in Tagab District....
to KabulKabulKabul , spelt Caubul in some classic literatures, is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. It is also the capital of the Kabul Province, located in the eastern section of Afghanistan...
to KandaharKandaharKandahar is the second largest city in Afghanistan, with a population of about 512,200 as of 2011. It is the capital of Kandahar Province, located in the south of the country at about 1,005 m above sea level...
, and then to QuettaQuettais the largest city and the provincial capital of the Balochistan Province of Pakistan. Known as the "Fruit Garden of Pakistan" due to the diversity of its plant and animal wildlife, Quetta is home to the Hazarganji Chiltan National Park, which contains some of the rarest species of wildlife in the...
, Pakistan. From Quetta, the detainee traveled to the TaftanTaftanTaftan may refer to:* Taftan volcano is located in Sistan and Baluchestan province of Iran.* Taftan, Balochistan is a town in Balochistan province of Pakistan.* Taftan is a leavened flour bread from Persian cuisine....
area of the IranIranIran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
ian-Pakistani border region. - Joint Military personnel entered the Detainee's home and began a search for contraband items. The detainee was told that weapons had been found in his house but he countered that they were actually found at his brother's home.
- After the detainee was seized, he recanted his original story regarding ownership of the weapons found at his house. The detainee admitted that only two of the weapons were found at his house. One weapon was a Kalashnikov and the other was a British weapon.
- During this later recant, the detainee stated that the two weapons were used for bird hunting and went on to say that any additional weapons may be the property of his brother and that if there were any weapons, there were acquired from a Mujahadeen that was associated with his brother.
- The detainee's route of egress from Afghanistan is as follows: The detainee traveled from Tagab
The following primary factors favor release or transfer
| a. | The detainee insisted that he had been wrongly accused and implicated with the weapons. |
| b. | The detainee has denied ever being associated with the Hizb-I-Islami Gulbuddin or knowing somebody who was. |
Guantanamo Medical records
On 16 March 2007 the Department of DefenseUnited States Department of Defense
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published medical records for the captives.
According to those records Nahir Shah
was 69 inches tall.
According to those records his weight was recorded 32 times between July 2003 and November 2006.
His weight ranged from 175 to 217 pounds.
Repatriation
On November 25, 2008 the Department of Defense published a list of when Guantanamo captives were repatriated.According to that list he was repatriated on November 2, 2007.
Seven other Afghans were repatriated that day, two Jordanian captives and one Libyan captive
Libyan captives in Guantanamo
The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding Libyan detainees in Guantanamo.A total of 778 detainees have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002. The camp population peaked in 2004 at...
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The Center for Constitutional Rights
Center for Constitutional Rights
Al Odah v. United States:Al Odah is the latest in a series of habeas corpus petitions on behalf of people imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay detention center. The case challenges the Military Commissions system’s suitability as a habeas corpus substitute and the legality, in general, of detention at...
reports that all of the Afghans repatriated to Afghanistan from April 2007 were sent to Afghan custody in the American built and supervised wing of the Pul-e-Charkhi prison
Pul-e-Charkhi prison
Pul-e-Charkhi , also known as Afghan National Detention Facility, is the largest prison in Afghanistan east of Kabul. Construction of the jail began in the 1970s by order of former president Mohammed Daoud Khan and was completed during the 1980s...
near Kabul
Kabul
Kabul , spelt Caubul in some classic literatures, is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. It is also the capital of the Kabul Province, located in the eastern section of Afghanistan...
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Pentagon claim he had "returned to the fight"
On May 20, 2009, the New York Times, citing an unreleased PentagonThe Pentagon
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document, reported that Department of Defense
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officials claimed
Nahir Shah
was one of 74 former Guantanatmo captives who "are engaged in terrorism or militant activity."