Aminullah Amin

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Aminullah Amin


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place_of_birth = Chaman, Pakistan
date_of_death =
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detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 504
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alias = Aminulla Amin
charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
penalty =
status = unknown, no longer at Guantanamo
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Maulavi Aminullah Amin was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf
title=List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=May 15 2006
accessdate=2007-09-29] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 504.

Capture

His capture was reported on 20 December, 2001.cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1721323.stm
title=Pakistan holds senior Taleban official
publisher=BBC News
date=Thursday, 20 December, 2001
accessdate=2008-02-20
quote=] He was captured by Pakistani officials.

Role in the Taliban

The BBC called his capture the first of a senior Taliban official, and said he had been "...the border security chief for the southern half of the frontier."

On United Nations Resolution 1267Aminullah Amin, was listed as Governor of Saripul Province, the 110th individual listed on a list of 400 individuals under sanctions from 1999.cite news
url=http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/financialsanctions/annex070803.pdf
title=FINANCIAL SANCTIONS: AL-QAIDA AND TALIBAN -- AMENDMENTS MADE BY UN SANCTIONS COMMITTEE TO UN CONSOLIDATED LIST MAINTAINED UNDER RESOLUTION 1390 (2002) ON 18 JULY AND 27 JULY 2007
publisher=Bank of England
date=August 3 2007
accessdate=2008-02-20
quote=]

Guantanamo detention

Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO) counter-terrorism analysts report that he was born in Chaman, Pakistan, and is a citizen of Pakistan.JTF-GTMO analysts provided a date of birth or an estimated year of birth for almost all the captives. Aminullah Amin is one of the few captives whose age they did not speculate on. They spelled his name as Aminulla Amin.

While Aminulla Amin was listed 759 men and boys on the "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006", he was not listed among the 558 men and boys on the "List of detainee who went through complete CSRT process".cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf
title=List of detainee who went through complete CSRT process
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=April 20 2006
accessdate=2007-09-29]

As a consequence of Rasul v. Bush all 558 captives who remained in Guantanamo as of the fall of 2004 had a Combatant Status Review Tribunal. There is no record of where Aminullah Amin has been transferred.

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