The US government transferred an Afghan implicated in the killing of a Red Cross worker from Guantanamo to his home country last week. The former Gitmo detainee, Abdul Hafiz, was reportedly captured by US Special Forces in Afghanistan in April 2003. That raid targeted suspected terrorists who were involved in the kidnapping and murder of Ricardo Munguía, an employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), on March 27, 2003. (Click photo to learn more)
Gitmo Prisoner No. 008 A former detainee at Guantánamo Bay has become the Taliban’s chief operations officer in southern Afghanistan. The former detainee, Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, was captured in Afghanistan in December of 2001 and transferred to Afghanistan six years later in December of 2007. His internment serial number (ISN) at Guantánamo was 8, a comparatively low number indicating that he was most likely one of the first detainees transferred from Afghanistan to Guantánamo after the facility was opened in 2002. (Thomas Joscelyn)
There is every indication that Nashiri -– who was the head of al Qaeda’s operations in the Arabian Peninsula at the time of his capture -– was getting ready to unleash a new round of terror when he was captured. (The Weekly Standard)
“Lillie was particularly interested in the ideas of martyrdom and was slated to be a suicide operative for an al Qaeda ‘second wave’ attack targeting Los Angeles.”
Currently, seventeen Uighur men who are suspected members or associates of the organization are detained at Guantánamo. Five other Uighurs who were detained at Gitmo were previously released to Albania in 2006. The men are all from China’s Xinjiang region and are alleged to have traveled to Afghanistan to join the ETIP/ETIM’s jihad. (The Long War Journal)
