Asadullah Jan Explained

Asadullah Jan
Birth Place:Swahbi, Pakistan[1]
Id Number:47
Alias:Asad Ullah
Charge:No charge (held in extrajudicial detention)
Status:Repatriated 16 July 2003

Asadullah Jan is a citizen of Pakistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[2] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 47.Joint Task Force -- Guantanamo analysts estimated he was born in 1981. However, he has stated that he was only sixteen when he was captured in 2001.

Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts asserted that he was a citizen of Pakistan. He said that although he was born in Pakistan, he was a child of Afghan refugees.

Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts assert his name was "Asad Ullah". However, in interviews with reporters with the McClatchy News Service in 2008, he said his name was "Asadullah Jan".

He was repatriated July 16, 2003.[3]

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.[4] Asadullah Janwas one of three former captives who had an article profiling him.[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

Asadullah Jan explained that he was returning from a visit to relatives in Zormat around the time of Ramadan in 2001 when he was stopped at a checkpoint in Kohat, Pakistan and apprehended.[10] [11] He was held in Pakistan for approximately a month before his first interrogation by Americans. His first interview was by a woman and two men, in civilian clothes, at the Pakistani jail.

His interpreter said they were with the CIA, although they did not identify themselves. He told his McClatchy interviewer their questions surprised him—apparently Pakistani security officials had told them he was a son of Osama bin Laden. The CIA officials had him transferred to US custody in the Kandahar detention facility. Guards beat him brutally upon his arrival, and routinely beat him and other captives, while he was detained there. His interrogators however never beat him. He described the conditions in the camp as primitive:

Asadullah Jan told his interviewer he personally saw a guard drop a Koran into a latrine.[10]

Asadullah Jan told his interviewer he was plagued by memories of Guantanamo, and that mention of the USA would bring back troubling recollections.[10]

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  1. Web site: Asad Ullah: JTF-GTMO Detainee Assessment . US Department of Defense . New York Times . 8 February 2003.
  2. 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.
  3. News: Consolidate chronological listing of GTMO detainees released, transferred or deceased . . OARDEC . OARDEC . 2008-10-09 . 2008-12-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081227004519/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/09-F-0031_doc1.pdf . 27 December 2008 . dead .
  4. 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/ . 2009-03-04. mirror
  5. 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.
  6. 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 .
  7. 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 .
  8. 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 .
  9. 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 .
  10. News: Guantanamo Inmate Database: Asadullah Jan . . Tom Lasseter . Tom Lasseter . June 15, 2008 . 2008-06-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080620105856/http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/8 . 20 June 2008 . dead. mirror
  11. Ramadan coincided with November in 2001.

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