Mullah Fazel Mazloom, despatched to Qatar in 2014Mullah Mazloom, typically recognized as Mullah Mohammad Fazl, was amongst 5 Taliban members despat
Mullah Fazel Mazloom, despatched to Qatar in 2014
Mullah Mazloom, typically recognized as Mullah Mohammad Fazl, was amongst 5 Taliban members despatched to Qatar in trade for the discharge of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was held prisoner by the militant Haqqani community within the tribal space of Pakistan’s northwest frontier. Mullah Mazloom, a former chief of the Taliban Military, is accused of getting a task within the massacres of Shiite Hazara in Afghanistan earlier than america invasion in 2001, crimes that can not be tried by a army fee. In Qatar, he has emerged as a member of the Taliban negotiating staff devising an settlement to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan and decide a power-sharing settlement between the Afghan authorities and the Taliban. He traveled to Pakistan as a part of the negotiating staff in the summertime of 2020, with advance approval of the U.S., Qatari and Pakistani governments.
Abdul Haq Wasiq, despatched to Qatar in 2014
Mr. Wasiq, a deputy minister of intelligence earlier than his seize in 2001, was additionally included within the Bergdahl commerce and has joined the Taliban’s political workplace in Doha, Qatar. His brother-in-law, Ghulam Ruhani, was repatriated in 2007. Each males had been captured after attending a negotiating assembly with U.S. officers. As soon as transferred to Doha, the place he stays, Mr. Wasiq additionally took half within the talks with america, which resulted within the launch of extra Taliban prisoners held by the Afghanistan authorities underneath a take care of the Trump administration that was meant to halt rebel Taliban assaults on U.S. forces.
Mullah Norullah Noori, despatched to Qatar in 2014
Mullah Noori, who was a provincial governor in Afghanistan, has additionally joined the Taliban’s political workplace in Doha, Qatar. He and the opposite 4 Taliban prisoners who had been traded for the discharge of Sergeant Bergdahl reside as company of the Qatari authorities like many expatriates in Doha. They’ve been joined by household, ship their youngsters to a Pakistani college arrange for international households, and reside on authorities stipends in a compound. Their capacity to journey is regulated by the Qatari authorities.
Abdul Rahman Shalabi, despatched to Saudi Arabia in 2015
Mr. Shalabi grew to become one of many best-known Saudi prisoners at Guantánamo due to his long-running starvation strikes, which at instances required that he be pressure fed. After returning to Saudi Arabia in September 2015, he was instantly despatched to jail on a three-year sentence that was reduce brief for “good conduct” and he was launched in 2018 after a yr or extra in a rehabilitation program. He has married and have become a father, making good on a want his lawyer put earlier than the Guantánamo parole board in April 2015 “to cool down, get married and have a household of his personal, and put the previous behind him.”
Ali Ahmad al Rahizi, despatched to the United Arab Emirates in 2015
Mr. Rahizi, a Yemeni citizen who america concluded couldn’t safely be repatriated, is confined to a cell within the United Arab Emirates, in line with activists who’ve spoken with the households of Yemenis who had been despatched there for resettlement by the Obama administration. American officers mentioned that the Emirates had agreed to ascertain a step-down program for detainees who couldn’t go residence — transferring from jail to a rehabilitation program to jobs within the space, which depends closely on international labor. That by no means materialized. The Life After Guantánamo undertaking, based mostly in London, describes detention within the Emirates as grim and threatening, partly as a result of the nation has thought-about involuntarily repatriating former prisoners to Yemen, the place they’d be at risk.
Abd al Malik, despatched to Montenegro in 2016
Mr. Malik, a Yemeni who glided by the identify Abdul Malik al Rahabi, resides in Montenegro, the place america despatched him for resettlement, and attempting to promote artistic endeavors he painted whereas at Guantánamo. He was joined by his spouse and daughter, who discovered life there socially incompatible, so the household moved to Khartoum, Sudan. However life was tough there, too, they usually returned to Montenegro. Artwork gross sales stopped a while in the past and Mr. Malik’s concept to work as a driver and information for vacationers soured when the coronavirus pandemic hit.
Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel, despatched to Oman in 2016
As a Yemeni, Mr. Moqbel was ineligible for repatriation due to the civil struggle, which made it unimaginable for the Obama administration to barter protected safety preparations. As an alternative, neighboring Oman agreed to take him, together with 29 different detainees, in one of the vital profitable resettlement packages. He has discovered work in a manufacturing unit, married and is now father to 2 youngsters, in line with the previous Guantánamo prisoner Mansour Adayfi, who chronicles life after detention for some former prisoners. As a rule, former detainees in Oman refuse to talk with international reporters, apparently on the urging of the host nation.