Sajin Urayman

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Nationality Pakistan
Known for Held in Guantanamo

Saji Ur Rahman is a citizen of Pakistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 545. He was a minor when he was captured.

Sajin Urayman was repatriated on 16 July 2003.[2][3]

Age dispute

In 2008 the Department of Defense informed United Nations human rights workers that they had only held eight minors in Guantanamo.[4] Third party commentators pointed out that this claim was contradicted by the official list captives names the DoD published on May 15, 2006.[1][5][6] Historian Andy Worthington pointed out that Urayman said he was born in 1986, not 1984.[7]

Main article: Juveniles held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp
Main article: Minors detained in the War on Terror

McClatchy News Service interview

On June 15, 2008 the McClatchy News Service published a series of articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives.[8] Saji Ur Rahman was one of the former captives who had an article profiling him.[9][10][11][12][13][14]

Saif Ur Rahman said that his father had sent him to a madrassa. But he was more interested in movies, and he ran away from the madrassa, with an older man, who told him he could help him break into the movie industry. He and his mentor traveled to Herat, where his would be mentor turned him over to the Taliban.

After the Taliban administration collapsed Saif Ur Rahman spent three months in Afghan custody in Herat before being turned over to American custody.

The McClatchy reporter noted similarities between his account of how he found himself in Herat, and the story of another minor Mohammed Omar. The McClatchy reporter concluded that the boys' stories were obviously not credible, but noted that they were among the first captives to be sent home

The McClatchy reporter closed the profile with the comment:

"It isn't clear whether American interrogators gave up on trying to find out the real story or decided that Rahman and Omar were just a couple of kids with flimsy alibis who, despite the lies, didn't know much."

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.[15][16] Urayman's assessment was drafted on January 25, 2003, and was signed by camp commandant Geoffrey D. Miller.[17] His assessment was just one page long and recommended Urayman be transferred to the control of another country.[18]

Historian Andy Worthington compared the assertions in Rahman's JTF-GTMO assessment with his account to the McClatchy reporters.[7] He noted that Urayman's interrogators asked him the same standard questions all captives were asked: “Why did you come to Afghanistan? Who did you meet in Afghanistan? Where did you hide your weapons?” He added: “These were, of course, questions to which every single prisoner was subjected, and it’s impossible to know how long it took the authorities to realize that he ... knew nothing whatsoever about the Taliban or al-Qaeda.”

Worthington noted that Urayman's assessment said he had proved to have had no intelligence value, although the justification for sending him to Guantanamo was “because of his general knowledge of conflict in the region.”

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006". United States Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf. Retrieved 2006-05-15. 
  2. ↑ Margot Williams (2008-11-03). "Guantanamo Docket: Sajin Urayman". New York Times. http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/545-sajin-urayman. Retrieved 2010-10. 
  3. ↑ OARDEC (2008-10-09). "Consolidated chronological listing of GTMO detainees released, transferred or deceased". United States Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/09-F-0031_doc1.pdf. Retrieved 2008-12-28. 
  4. ↑ "United States Written Response to Questions Asked by the Committee on the Rights of the Child (5/19/2008)". Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas. 2008-05-19. Archived from the original on 2013-03-14. http://web.archive.org/web/20130314141922/http://humanrights.ucdavis.edu/projects/the-guantanamo-testimonials-project/testimonies/testimonies-of-military-psychologists-index/optional-protocol-on-the-involvement-of-children-in-armed-conflict/. Retrieved 2013-05-08. 
  5. ↑ Andy Worthington. "WikiLeaks and the 22 Children of Guantánamo". WikiLeaks. Archived from the original on 2011-08-05. http://web.archive.org/web/20110920215425/http://wikileaks.org/WikiLeaks-and-the-22-Children-of.html. Retrieved 2013-05-08. "Born 1984, seized December 2001 (aged 16/17, although Rahman himself said he was 15 when captured), released July 2003. He said that he traveled to Afghanistan with two friends to visit shrines in October 2001, but was then captured by Afghans. Perhaps surprisingly, there was no indication that the US authorities didn’t believe his story." 
  6. ↑ Andy Worthington (2008-11-22). "The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo". Archived from the original on 2013-04-03. http://web.archive.org/web/20130403151845/http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2008/11/22/the-pentagon-cant-count-22-juveniles-held-at-guantanamo/. Retrieved 2013-05-08. "Two Pakistanis, Mohammed Omar (photo, left) and Saji Ur Rahman, were, respectively, 17 and 15 years old when they were seized in Afghanistan and imprisoned in local jails for three months before being handed over (or sold) to U.S. forces." 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Andy Worthington (2011-08-02). "WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Six of Ten)". Archived from the original on 2013-04-07. http://web.archive.org/web/20130407203552/http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2011/08/02/wikileaks-and-the-guantanamo-prisoners-released-from-2002-to-2004-part-six-of-ten/. Retrieved 2013-05-08. 
  8. ↑ Tom Lasseter (June 15, 2008). "Guantanamo Inmate Database: Page 3". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on 2008-06-17. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fservices.mcclatchyinteractive.com%2Fdetainees%3Fpage%3D3&date=2008-06-17. Retrieved 2008-06-17. 
  9. ↑ Tom Lasseter (June 18, 2008). "U.S. hasn't apologized to or compensated ex-detainees". Myrtle Beach Sun. Archived from the original on 2008-06-18. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrtlebeachonline.com%2F611%2Fstory%2F491372.html&date=2008-06-18. Retrieved 2008-06-18. 
  10. ↑ Tom Lasseter (June 15, 2008). "Pentagon declined to answer questions about detainees". McClatchy News Service. Archived from the original on 2008-06-20. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcclatchydc.com%2Fhomepage%2Fstory%2F38771.html&date=2008-06-20. Retrieved 2008-06-20. 
  11. ↑ Tom Lasseter (June 16, 2008). "Documents undercut Pentagon's denial of routine abuse". McClatchy News Service. Archived from the original on 2008-06-20. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcclatchydc.com%2Fhomepage%2Fstory%2F38776.html&date=2008-06-20. Retrieved 2008-06-20. 
  12. ↑ Tom Lasseter (June 19, 2008). "Deck stacked against detainees in legal proceedings". McClatchy News Service. Archived from the original on 2008-06-20. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcclatchydc.com%2Fhomepage%2Fstory%2F38887.html&date=2008-06-20. Retrieved 2008-06-20. 
  13. ↑ Tom Lasseter (June 16, 2008). "U.S. abuse of detainees was routine at Afghanistan bases". McClatchy News Service. Archived from the original on 2008-06-20. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcclatchydc.com%2Fhomepage%2Fstory%2F38775.html&date=2008-06-20. Retrieved 2008-06-20. 
  14. ↑ Tom Lasseter (June 15, 2008). "Guantanamo Inmate Database: Saji Ur Rahman". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on 2008-08-01. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdetainees.mcclatchydc.com%2Fdetainees%2F58&date=2008-08-01. Retrieved 2008-06-17. 
  15. ↑ 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.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8471907/WikiLeaks-Guantanamo-Bay-terrorist-secrets-revealed.html. 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." 
  16. ↑ "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. 
  17. ↑ "Sajin Urayman: Guantanamo Bay detainee file on Sajin Urayman, US9PK-000545DP, passed to the Telegraph by Wikileaks". The Telegraph (UK). 2011-04-27. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/guantanamo-bay-wikileaks-files/8477216/Guantanamo-Bay-detainee-file-on-Sajin-Urayman-US9PK-000545DP.html. Retrieved 2013-05-08. 
  18. ↑ Geoffrey D. Miller (2003-01-25). "Transfer Recommendation for Guantanamo Detainee Sajin Urayman, ISN: US9PK-000545DP". Joint Task Force Guantanamo. http://wikileaks.ch/gitmo/pdf/pk/us9pk-000545dp.pdf. Retrieved 2013-05-08. "Recommendation: In view of the foregoing, I recommend subject detainee be considered for release or transfer to the control of another government."  mirror

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