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Commander Jeffrey Gordon claims thirty Guantanamo captives returned to the battlefield.[1]

He named six of those thirty men: including:

id name(s) notes
367 Mohamed Yusif Yaqub
  • "...who the Pentagon said assumed control of Taliban operations in Southern Afghanistan after his release from Guantanamo, died fighting U.S. forces on May 7, 2004."[1]
unknown Abdul Rahman Noor
  • "...was released in July 2003 and was later identified as the man described in an Oct. 7, 2001, interview with Al Jazeera television network as the 'deputy defense minister of the Taliban,' "[1]
  • No individual with this name is on the official list of Guantanamo captives.
  • There is an individual names Abdul Rahman Noorani
unknown Abdullah Mahsud
  • No individual with this name is on the official list of Guantanamo captives.
unknown Maulavi Abdul Ghaffar
  • No individual with this name is on the official list of Guantanamo captives.

The claim that captives "returned to the battlefield" upon release[edit]

[2][3][4][5][6][7] [8][9][10][11][12] http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/kyrgyzstan/hypermail/200103/0052.html Kyrgyzstan daily digest], Eurasia.net, March 21 2001</ref>[13][14][15][16][17][15]

  • The official list of Guantanamo captives included a man the same name, Haji Shahzada who remained in custody years after the stories that Mullah Shahzada had been reported to have been released, and killed in combat. Haji Shahzada was one of the 38 captives whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal determined they had not been an enemy combatant in the first place.

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  • Reports have circulated that one of the three children who was held for a year and a half, in Camp Iguana, and released on January 28 2004, was subsequently captured, or subsequently killed in combat — accounts vary.[17]
  • As with "Mullah Shahzada" this information is attributed to unnamed insiders.
  • Accounts of when he was captured, or killed, vary.
  • Oliver North claimed that the released child was "Mullah Shahzada".[15] North claimed that "Mullah Shahzada" was killed in combat weeks after his release. Mullah is an honorary title, meaning "educated man". However the only schooling the three children held in Camp Iguana ever received was the lessons they received at the camp.[18][19][20] North's account that a released child from Camp Iguana was killed in combat, weeks after his release, is at odds with the accounts of the journalists who interviewed the children during the months following their release.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c David Morgan (Tuesday May 14, 2007). "U.S. divulges new details on released Gitmo inmates". Reuters. Retrieved May 15, 2007. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ Elisabeth Bumiller (2005-06-14). "Cheney defends Guantanamo as essential to war: VP says that if freed, prisoners would return to battlefield". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2009-01-25. mirror
  3. ^ H. Candace Gorman (Tuesday March 13 2007). "Return to the Battlefield: The Number One Guantánamo Myth". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2007-03-18. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help) mirror
  4. ^ Gul, Ayaz. "Taleban Leader Killed in Afghanistan was in Guantanamo Bay Prison". Retrieved 2006-03-15. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  5. ^ "Gitmo Detainees Return To Terror". CBS News. 2004-10-17. Retrieved 2008-09-28. mirror
  6. ^ Mark Mazzetti (2004-10-22). "Released Detainees Join Fight". LA Times. Retrieved 2009-01-25. mirror
  7. ^ John J. Lumpkin (2004-09-28). "7 ex-detainees return to fighting: Guantanamo release process called imperfect". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2008-09-28. mirror
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference wp-article-2004-10-22 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ Tim McGirk, Rahimullah Yusufza (2004-06-07). "After Gitmo, A Talib Takes Revenge". Time magazine. Retrieved 2008-09-28. mirror
  10. ^ Shaun Waterman (2004-06-07). "Freed Gitmo detainees back in rebel ranks, officials say". Washington Times. Retrieved 2008-09-28. mirror
  11. ^ John Mintz (2004-10-22). "Released Detainees Rejoining The Fight". Washington Post. Retrieved 2008-09-28. [
  12. ^ {{cite news}}: Empty citation (help)
  13. ^ Carlotta Gall, In Pakistan Border Towns, Taliban Has a Resurgence, New York Times, May 6 2003 - - mirror
  14. ^ Tim Golden, Don van Natta jr., U.S. Said to Overstate Value of Guantánamo Detainees, New York Times, June 21 2004 - - mirror
  15. ^ a b c Oliver North, Unilateral self-flagellation, Town hall, June 10 2005
  16. ^ Clash leaves 9 police dead in South Afghanistan, People's Daily, October 22 2005
  17. ^ a b John Mintz, Released Detainees Rejoining The Fight, Washington Post, October 22 2004
  18. ^ "Boy, 12, recounts days as terror inmate: Youngest captive spent 17 months detained, a year at Guantanamo". San Francisco Chronicle. February 12 2004. Retrieved March 26, 2007. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  19. ^ "Cuba? It was great, say boys freed from US prison camp". The Guardian. June 6 2004. Retrieved March 26, 2007. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  20. ^ "Boy praises Guantanamo jailers". BBC. February 14 2004. Retrieved March 26, 2007. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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