Bashir Ahmad (Guantanamo detainee 1005)

Bashir Ahmad was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. [http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] His Guantanamo detainee ID number is 1005American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1975, in Chah Kote Wala, Pakistan.

Identity

Pakistan's "Daily Times" reports that a man named Bashir Ahmed, from Jhang, was repatriated to Pakistan in the fall of 2004.cite news
url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_28-6-2005_pg7_1
title=17 ex-Guantanamo prisoners released
date= June 28 2005
publisher=Daily Times
accessdate=2007-01-21] cite news
url=http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/june-2005/28/index7.php
title=17 ex-Gitmo detainees freed
publisher=The Nation (Pakistani newspaper)
date=June 28 2005
accessdate=2007-01-21]

Release

The "Daily Times" reported that Bashir Ahmed was repatriated with sixteen other men. The seventeen men were released from Pakistani custody on June 28 2005.cite news
url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_28-6-2005_pg7_1
title=17 ex-Guantanamo prisoners released
date= June 28 2005
publisher=Daily Times
accessdate=2007-01-21] cite news
url=http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/june-2005/28/index7.php
title=17 ex-Gitmo detainees freed
publisher=The Nation (Pakistani newspaper)
date=June 28 2005
accessdate=2007-01-21] According to "Daily Times" Punjab's chief minister’s adviser on religious affairs,
Maulana Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi, said local authorities wanted to investigate whether the men had been brainwashed and were still involved in any terrorist activity.

There is no record that Bashir Ahmed's enemy combatant status was reviewed by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", April 20 2006]

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