Alternate name Nusrat Khan ISN 1009 | Name Nasrat Khan | |
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Status Cleared for release and repatriated after more than three years of detention Detained at Guantanamo Bay detention camp People also search for Mohammed Ahmed Ali Al Asadi | ||
Hajji Nasrat Khan is an elderly citizen of Afghanistan best known for the more than three years he spent in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. The United States Department of Defense believed that he was an enemy combatant and assigned him the Internment Serial Number 1009.
Contents
- Combatant Status Review Tribunal
- Summary of Evidence memo
- Transcript
- Administrative Review Board hearing
- Witness at other Tribunals
- Habeas Corpus
- Khans age
- Return to Afghanistan
- Guantanamo Medical records
- References
Khan has been crippled since 1986. In April 2006 Khan was 80 years old. He was the oldest prisoner remaining at Guantanamo by the time he was released (August, 2006 ).
Combatant Status Review Tribunal
Nasrat Khan was among the 60% of prisoners who chose to participate in his tribunal hearings.
Summary of Evidence memo
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Hajji Nasrat Khan's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 5 October 2004. The memo listed the following allegations against him:
b. The detainee was engaged in hostile activities against the United States or its coalition partners:- Large caches of weapons were recovered from the compound where detainee lived, including 107MM rocket launchers, PKMs, AK-47s and uniforms.
- At the time of detainee's captured [sic], the HIG was conducting surveillance and planning rocket attacks against US forces in the area.
Transcript
Khan chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
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 Board 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.
Khan chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.
The following primary factors favor continued detention
b. Training- Detainee claims he served in the Afghan Army in the late 1950's [sic] or 1960's [sic]. Detainee claims he only served as an infantryman for approximately two years and only received small arms training.
- Detainee was a Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin [sic] commander.
- Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) was one of the major mujahedin groups in the war against the Soviets. HIG has long established ties with Usama bin Laden. Gulbuddin Hikmatyar founded HIG. Hikmatyar ran several terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and was a pioneer in sending mercenary fightters to other Islamic fighting conflicts. Hikmatyar offered to shelter Usama bin Laden after he later fled Sudan in 1996.
- Detainee was a village leader in an area controlled by the Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin (HIG).
- Detainee claims he only met Gulbuddin Hikmatyar once.
- Reporting states Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin members were planning to kidnap United States Personnel on the Kabul to Jalalabad road between the Sorobi, Kabul province, Afghanistan and Jalalabad, Nangrahar province], Afghanistan to exchange for a captured Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin commander.
- Further reporting states Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin wanted to kidnap United States military personnel from Bagram Airfield.
- Detainee claims that Engineer Wasil was his son's commander.
- Reporting states Wasil is a known member of Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin.
- Reporting further states Wasil is not supportive of the United States, and believes the United States should not be in Afghanistan.
- Detainee's son is a commander of the Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin.
- Detainee's son admitted to having a weapons cache in his residence in the region of Sorobi.
- Reporting states the Detainee's son has links to al Qaida, Taliban and Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin which led to his son's arrest.
The following primary factor favor release or transfer
Witness at other Tribunals
Khan was interviewed, and provided a statement for Hamidullah's Tribunal. He confirmed that Hamidullah had only been a teenager when he had been in the HiG, and that he had been a deserter.
Habeas Corpus
Philadelphia lawyer Peter M. Ryan is representing Khan in his habeas corpus motion.
Khan's age
United Kingdom newspaper, The Guardian, republished an Associated Press article, devoted to Khan, which speculated about his age. The article says the USA estimates Khan's age as 71. It says that Khan doesn't know his age for sure, but believes he is about 78. The article states that Khan requires a walker.
Return to Afghanistan
Khan was reported to have been one of five Afghans returned to Afghanistan on August 28, 2006.
Peter M. Ryan, one of Khan's lawyers, learned of his return by e-mail from the DoD, on the following weekend, and never did learn the reason for Khan's detention.
Ryan initially expressed concerns whether Khan could expect the Afghan authorities to free him, upon his return, or whether they would put him in the Afghan prison system., but Khan did not ultimately face arrest upon his return to Afghanistan.
Guantanamo Medical records
On 16 March 2007 the Department of Defense published medical records for the detainees.