Abdul Majid Mahmoud Explained
| Abdul Majid Mahmoud |
| Birth Date: | 3 March 1979 |
| Date Of Release: | 18 November 2003 |
| Id Number: | 624 |
| Charge: | No charge (extrajudicial detention) |
| Status: | Repatriated |
Abdul Majid Mahmoud (born March 3, 1979) was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 624.
Majid Mehmood was transferred to Pakistan on November 18, 2003.[2]
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.[3] Abdul Majid Mahmoudwas one of the former captives who had an article profiling him.[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
Abdul Majid Mahmoud said he was captured by Afghans in December 2001, held in brutal conditions, for four months.[9] 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.[9]
He said he decided to tell his American interrogators the truth, that he had been recruited by the Taliban in Karachi.[9] 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.[9]
The McClatchy reporters imply that Abdul Majid Mahmoud spent twenty months in Guantanamo.[9] However, 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.
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Notes and References
- Web site: List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006. United States Department of Defense. 2006-05-15.
- News: Majid Mehmood - The Guantánamo Docket. The New York Times . 18 May 2021 .
- News: Guantanamo Inmate Database: Page 3 . . Tom Lasseter . Tom Lasseter . June 15, 2008 . 2008-06-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090304175010/http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/ . March 4, 2009. mirror
- News: U.S. hasn't apologized to or compensated ex-detainees . . Tom Lasseter . Tom Lasseter . June 18, 2008 . 2008-06-18 . dead . https://archive.today/20080619010921/http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/611/story/491372.html . 2008-06-19.
- News: Pentagon declined to answer questions about detainees . . Tom Lasseter . Tom Lasseter . June 15, 2008 . 2008-06-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080615214204/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38771.html . 15 June 2008 . bot: unknown .
- News: Documents undercut Pentagon's denial of routine abuse . . Tom Lasseter . Tom Lasseter . June 16, 2008 . 2008-06-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080619001329/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38776.html . 19 June 2008 . bot: unknown .
- News: Deck stacked against detainees in legal proceedings . . Tom Lasseter . Tom Lasseter . June 19, 2008 . 2008-06-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080620122327/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38887.html . 20 June 2008 . bot: unknown .
- News: U.S. abuse of detainees was routine at Afghanistan bases . . Tom Lasseter . Tom Lasseter . June 16, 2008 . 2008-06-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080620001639/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38775.html . 20 June 2008 . bot: unknown .
- News: Guantanamo Inmate Database: Abdul Majid Mahmoud . . Tom Lasseter . Tom Lasseter . June 15, 2008 . 2008-06-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080920043045/http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/63 . 2008-09-20.
