Mohammad Nasim (Guantanamo captive 453)

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Mohammad Nasim
Born 1973
Shahidan, Afghanistan
Nationality Afghanistan

Mohammad Nasim is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. He arrived in Guantanamo on June 16, 2002, and was repatriated on March 14, 2004.[1][2] Guantanamo staff estimated he was born in 1973, and assert he was from Shahidan, Afghanistan.

Official status reviews

Originally the Bush Presidency asserted that captives apprehended in the "war on terror" were not covered by the Geneva Conventions, and could be held indefinitely, without charge, and without an open and transparent review of the justifications for their detention.[3] In 2004 the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that Guantanamo captives were entitled to being informed of the allegations justifying their detention, and were entitled to try to refute them.

Following the Supreme Court's ruling the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants.[3]

However Mohammad Nasim was repatriated four months prior to the Supreme Court's ruling.

Formerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment

On April 25, 2011, whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts.[4][5] Mohammed Nasim's two page detainee assessment was dated November 22, 2003.[6] It was signed by camp commandant Geoffrey D. Miller, who recommended continued detention under DoD control.[7]

In assessing the assessment historian Andy Worthington described the Guantanamo analysts as "floundering" in their attempts to justify his detention.[8]

References

  1. "Measurements of Heights and Weights of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (ordered and consolidated version)". Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas, from DoD data. Archived from the original on 2009-12-21. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhumanrights.ucdavis.edu%2Fresources%2Flibrary%2Fdocuments-and-reports%2Fgtmo_heightsweights.pdf&date=2009-12-21. 
  2. Margot Williams (2008-11-03). "Guantanamo Docket: Mohammad Nasim". New York Times. http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/453-mohammad-nasim. Retrieved 2012-09-25. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 "U.S. military reviews 'enemy combatant' use". USA Today. 2007-10-11. Archived from the original on 2012-08-11. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fnews%2Fwashington%2F2007-10-11-guantanamo-combatants_N.htm&date=2012-08-11. "Critics called it an overdue acknowledgment that the so-called Combatant Status Review Tribunals are unfairly geared toward labeling detainees the enemy, even when they pose little danger. Simply redoing the tribunals won't fix the problem, they said, because the system still allows coerced evidence and denies detainees legal representation." 
  4. Christopher Hope, Robert Winnett, Holly Watt, Heidi Blake (2011-04-27). "WikiLeaks: Guantanamo Bay terrorist secrets revealed -- Guantanamo Bay has been used to incarcerate dozens of terrorists who have admitted plotting terrifying attacks against the West – while imprisoning more than 150 totally innocent people, top-secret files disclose". The Telegraph (UK). Archived from the original on 2012-07-13. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworldnews%2Fwikileaks%2F8471907%2FWikiLeaks-Guantanamo-Bay-terrorist-secrets-revealed.html&date=2012-07-13. Retrieved 2012-07-13. "The Daily Telegraph, along with other newspapers including The Washington Post, today exposes America’s own analysis of almost ten years of controversial interrogations on the world’s most dangerous terrorists. This newspaper has been shown thousands of pages of top-secret files obtained by the WikiLeaks website." 
  5. "WikiLeaks: The Guantánamo files database". The Telegraph (UK). 2011-04-27. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/guantanamo-bay-wikileaks-files/8476672/WikiLeaks-The-Guantanamo-files-database.html. Retrieved 2012-07-10. 
  6. "Mohammad Nasim: Guantanamo Bay detainee file on Mohammad Nasim, US9AF-000453DP, passed to the Telegraph by Wikileaks". The Telegraph (UK). 2011-04-27. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/guantanamo-bay-wikileaks-files/8476841/Guantanamo-Bay-detainee-file-on-Mohammad-Nasim-US9AF-000453DP.html. Retrieved 2012-09-25. 
  7. Geoffrey D. Miller (2002-11-22). "Recommendation for Continued Detention Under DoD Control (CD) for Guantanamo Detainee, ISN US9AF000453DP". Joint Task Force Guantanamo. Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:ISN_00453,_Mohammed_Nasim%27s_Guantanamo_detainee_assessment.pdf&page=1. Retrieved 2012-09-25. 
  8. Andy Worthington (2011-05-31). "WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Three of Five)". http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2011/05/31/wikileaks-the-unknown-prisoners-of-guantanamo-part-three-of-five/. Retrieved 2012-09-25.