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{{Infobox War on Terror detainee
'''Mullah Shahzada''' is a [[Taliban]] field commander who was held in [[extrajudicial detention]] in [[Guantanamo Bay detainment camp|Guantanamo]], was later released, and subsequently rejoined the Taliban.<ref name=Time040607>[[Tim McGirk]], [[Rahimullah Yusufza]],
| name = Shahzada
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[[Shaun Waterman]],
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[http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040706-125552-4477r.htm Freed Gitmo detainees back in rebel ranks, officials say], ''[[Washington Times]]'', 2004-06-07
| birth_date = 1960<ref>{{cite web | url=https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/82201-isn-367-mohammed-yusif-yaqub-jtf-gtmo-detainee/fe58eed56b7c88d6/full.pdf | title=Transfer Recommendationfor GTMO Detainee, MohammedYusif Yaqub, ISN: US9AF-00367DP | publisher=Department of Defense | location=US | date=14 December 2002 | accessdate=21 May 2023}}</ref>
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| birth_place = [[Afghanistan]]
[[John Mintz]], [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A52670-2004Oct21?language=printer Released Detainees Rejoining The Fight], ''[[Washington Post]]'', 2004-10-22
| date_of_arrest = 26 November 2001
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| place_of_arrest = [[Kunduz]]
| arresting_authority = [[Northern Alliance]]
| date_of_release = 8 May 2003
| place_of_release = [[Kabul]]
| death_date = 7 May 2004
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| detained_at = [[Sheberghan Prison]]; [[Kandahar]]; [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp]]
| id_number = 367
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| alias = Mohammed Yusif Yaqub
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| parents = Mohammad Gul Aka (father)
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'''Shahzada Akhund''' (1960 – 7 May 2004), known also by the title ''[[Mullah]]'', was a [[Taliban]] militant commander who was held at [[Guantanamo Bay detainment camp|Guantanamo Bay]] following the 2001 ouster of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. He used a false name, Mohammed Yusif Yaqub, and pretended to be an innocent civilian.
==Accounts of Mullah Shahzada==
===2001===


He succeeded in convincing the Americans that he posed no threat and was released. He subsequently rejoined the Taliban, fighting the U.S. forces in Afghanistan. He died in combat in 2004.
A report from March 21, 2001, listed a Mullah Shahzada as a member of the Taliban delegation charged with responsibility over the destruction of statues.<ref>
[http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/kyrgyzstan/hypermail/200103/0052.html Kyrgyzstan daily digest], ''[[Eurasia.net]]'', March 21, 2001</ref>


==Prior to United States invasion of Afghanistan==
===2003===


Shahzada was from Mira Khor, a small village in the [[Maywand District|Maywand district]] of [[Kandahar Province]], southern [[Afghanistan]]. He was from the [[Tarakai]] tribe, and his father was Mohammad Gul Aka.<ref name=liftal /> He was born in 1960. He was educated at a [[madrassa]] in [[Pakistan]].<ref name=liftal />
The ''[[New York Times]]'' reported on an interview with a "former fighter" named Mullah Shahzada, in [[Quetta]], Pakistan.<ref name=NyTimes030506>
[[Carlotta Gall]],
[http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50615FD3A580C758CDDAC0894DB404482&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fOrganizations%2fT%2fTaliban%20 In Pakistan Border Towns, Taliban Has a Resurgence], ''[[New York Times]]'', May 6, 2003 - [http://www.afpc.org/article-pakistan1.shtml - mirror]</ref>
"It is too difficult studying in Afghanistan, because all the time people demand, `Who are you and what are you doing?' " said Mullah Shahzada, a religious teacher and former fighter from the southern province of Helmand.


In 2001, a Mullah Shahzada was reported as a member of the [[Taliban]] delegation charged with the responsibility of the destruction of statues.<ref name=kyrnew /> The term ''mullah'' is primarily understood in the Muslim world as a term of respect for an educated religious man.<ref name=colmul /><ref name=mermul /> There was at least one other contemporary "Mullah Shahzada" active among the Taliban in Afghanistan.[[#Other mentions of a Mullah Shahzada|<sup>[*]</sup>]]
The ''New York Times'' article does not say that Shahzada was a member of the Taliban.


A report by the [[U.N. Commission on Human Rights]], identified a '''Mullah Shahzad Kandahari''' ("Kandahari" refers to hailing from Kandahar) as being involved in a massacre in [[Robatak, Afghanistan|Rabatak]], in [[Samangan province]].<ref name=chr7 /> According to a human rights organisations, he was the commander of [[Khinjan District|Khinjan front]], north of [[Kabul]], and was allegedly responsible for the execution of 31 civilian detainees near the Rabatak Pass in May 2000.<ref name=hrwhaz /><ref name=ajphum /> The following year, in January 2001, following the Taliban recapture of [[Yakawlang]] in [[Bamyan province]] from the [[Northern Alliance|United Front]], the U.N. alleged he was involved in the killing of several hundred civilians, including a U.N staff member and a number of aid agency workers.<ref name=chr11 />
===2004===


==United States invasion of Afghanistan==
The ''[[New York Times]]'' reported:<ref name=NyTimes040621>
[[Tim Golden (journalist)|Tim Golden]], [[Don van Natta jr.]],
[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/21/politics/21GITM.html?ei=5007&en=4e5ce246b71d48df&ex=1403150400&partner=USERLAND&pagewanted=all&position= U.S. Said to Overstate Value of Guantánamo Detainees], ''[[New York Times]]'', June 21, 2004 - [http://www.refuseandresist.org/war/art.php?aid=1404 - mirror]</ref>
:''"New accounts from officials in Afghanistan and the United States indicate that at least 5 of the 57 Afghan detainees released have returned to the battlefield as Taliban commanders or fighters. Some of the five have been involved in new attacks on Americans, officials in southern Afghanistan said, including a notorious Taliban commander, Mullah Shahzada, who was reportedly killed in a recent accident."


Following the [[United States invasion of Afghanistan]], and the surrender of the Taliban forces holding [[Kunduz]], in northern Afghanistan, Shahzada was captured by [[Northern Alliance]] forces on 26 November 2001.<ref name=trarec /> He pretended to be an innocent rug merchant captured by mistake and used a false name,<ref name=nytval /> Mohammed Yusif Yaqub.<ref name=reurel /> In reality, he had been a Taliban officer during the invasion.<ref name=nytval /> He was transported to [[Sheberghan Prison]], where he was held for seven weeks, before being handed over to the United States at [[Kandahar]]. He was later transferred to [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp]], arriving on 15 June 2002, where he was given the [[Internment Serial Number]] (ISN) 367.<ref name=trarec />
===2005===


During his time in Guantanamo, he was consistent and stuck to his cover story about being a rug merchant.<ref name=nytval /> Ultimately, he was successful in convincing the American authorities that he was not a Taliban leader and that he did not pose a threat to U.S. interests. As a result, in December 2002, Shahzada was recommended for release. This occurred on 8 May 2003,<ref name=reurel /> and he was flown to Kabul.<ref name=herald /> [[Gul Agha Sherzai]], the post-Taliban governor of Kandahar, has said that Afghan offers of help in identifying known Talibans, which might have shown Shahzada's cover story to be false, were repeatedly rejected.<ref name=timrev />
[[Oliver North]] claimed that Mullah Shahzada was one of the three youngest children at Guantanamo, who were given more humane treatment, including schooling, at [[Camp Iguana]], apparently unaware that "mullah" is an honorific, meaning "educated man".<ref name=OllieNorth050610>
[[Oliver North]], [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/OliverNorth/2005/06/10/unilateral_self-flagellation Unilateral self-flagellation], ''[[Town hall]]'', June 10, 2005</ref>
The identity of the three children had already been published, [[Naqibullah (child detainee)|Naqibullah]], [[Asadullah Abdul Rahman]], and [[Muhammad Ismail Agha]].
North claimed Mullah Shahzada swore to abstain form violence, but was killed in a firefight weeks after his release.


Once back in Afghanistan, he returned to combat as a commander, recruiting fighters using stories of established poor treatment at the hands of the Americans in Guanatanamo as a recruiting tool. He was also behind a significant prison break:<ref name=timrev /> in October 2003 he arranged for forty-one Taliban prisoners to escape from [[Sarposa prison]], including the brother of the Taliban defence minister.<ref name=strdes /> ''The New York Times'' reported that after his return to fighting, he was responsible for the operations that killed at least thirteen people, including two aid workers.<ref name=nytval />
The ''[[People's Daily]]'' reports that a Mullah Shahzada was injured during a firefight in October 2005.<ref name=PeoplesDaily051022>
[http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200510/22/eng20051022_216100.html Clash leaves 9 police dead in South Afghanistan], ''[[People's Daily]]'', October 22, 2005</ref>


''Newsweek'' named him '''Mullah Shahzada Akhund''', describing him as a senior leader. They placed him in the [[Arghandab district]], near Kandahar, where he met with the leader of the Taliban, [[Mullah Omar|Mohammed Omar]], ten days before his death.<ref name=newlas /> He died 7 May 2004.<ref name=reurel /> His death has variously been described as occurring in action against the U.S,<ref name=reurel /> and as being an accident.<ref name=nytval /> ''Newsweek'', whose report is the most detailed, refers to it as a [[friendly-fire]] incident.<ref name=newlas /> He died in Nalgham, near Kandahar.<ref name=liftal />
===2006===


==Other mentions of a Mullah Shahzada==
The [[US Department of Defense]] was forced, by [[court order]], to release the names of the captives taken in the "war on terror" who were held in Guantanamo.
On 2006 April 20 they released a list of 558 names, nationalities and Guantanamo Bay detention camp ID numbers, of all the captives whose status as "enemy combatants" had been reviewed by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal.<ref name=DoDList/>


Two days before the release from Guantanamo of ISN 367, who was released on 8 May 2003,<ref name=reurel /> the ''[[New York Times]]'' reported in an article about the resurgence of the Taliban in an interview with a "religious teacher and former fighter" named Mullah Shahzada, in [[Quetta]], Pakistan. This Shahzada was reported as coming from [[Helmand province]],<ref name=nytres /> not Kandahar province.
Twenty-five days later they released a much longer list of 759 names, nationalities, Guantanamo Bay detention camp ID numbers, dates of birth, and places of birth, of all captives who had been held in military custody in Guantanamo.<ref name=DoDList2/>


There is no one named "Mullah Shahzada" on either the list released on April 20, 2006, or the list released on May 15, 2006.<ref name=DoDList>
The ''[[People's Daily]]'' reports that a Mullah Shahzada was injured during a firefight in Helmand province in October 2005.<ref name=peocla />
{{cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf
|format=PDF| title=List of detainees who went through complete CSRT process
| publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]
| author=[[OARDEC]]
| date=2006-04-20
| accessdate=2008-07-26
| quote=
}}</ref><ref name=DoDList2>
{{cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf
|format=PDF| title=List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
| publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]
| accessdate=2006-05-15
| quote=
}}</ref>

==Official acknowledgement==

On May 14, 2007 [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] officials testified before the [[United States Congress]] that thirty former Guantanamo captives had returned to the battlefield following their release.<ref name=CNN20070514>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/05/14/gitmo.inmates.reut/index.html |title=U.S. divulges new details on released Gitmo inmates |date=May 14, 2007 |publisher=[[CNN]] |accessdate=2007-05-19 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070518021328/http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/05/14/gitmo.inmates.reut/index.html? |archivedate=May 18, 2007 }}</ref>
*They linked [[Mohamed Yusif Yaqub]] to the name '''Mullah Shahzada'''.<ref name=ReutersFactbox20070514>
{{cite news
| url=http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1433833520070514
| title=FACTBOX: Pentagon releases data on former Gitmo detainees
| date=May 14, 2007
| publisher=[[Reuters]]
| accessdate=2007-05-19
}}</ref>
*They asserted that he was released on May 8, 2003.<ref name=ReutersFactbox20070514/>
*They asserted '''"...he assumed control of Taliban operations in Southern Afghanistan."'''<ref name=ReutersFactbox20070514/>
*They asserted that he was killed on May 7, 2004.<ref name=ReutersFactbox20070514/>

On June 13, 2008 the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] asserted Yousef Muhammed Yaaqoub, also known as Mullah Shazada, had "returned to terrorism".<ref name=Dia20080613>
{{cite news
| url=http://www.defenselink.mil/news/d20080613Returntothefightfactsheet.pdf
|format=PDF| title=Fact Sheet: Former GTMO Detainee Terrorism Trends
| publisher=[[Defense Intelligence Agency]]
| author=
| date=2008-06-13
| accessdate=2008-07-27
| quote=
}} [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.defenselink.mil%2Fnews%2Fd20080613Returntothefightfactsheet.pdf&date=2008-07-26 mirror]
</ref>
The DIA reported:
:{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|
:Yousef Muhammed Yaaqoub, better known as Mullah Shazada, was released from GTMO in May 2003. Shazada quickly rejoined the Taliban as a commander in southern Afghanistan. In this role, his activities reportedly included the organization and execution of a jailbreak in Kandahar, and a nearly successful capture of the border town of [[Spin Boldak]]. Shazada was killed on 7 May 2004 fighting U.S. forces. His memorial in Quetta, Pakistan, drew many Taliban leaders wanted by U.S. forces. At the time of his release, there was no indication he was a member of any terrorist organization or posed a risk to U.S. or Allied interests.<ref name=Dia20080613/>
|}

==See also==
*[[Shahzada Akhund]]


==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name=liftal>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QX31AQAAQBAJ&q=%22Mullah+Shahzada%22&pg=PP61 |title=My Life with the Taliban |work=Abdul Salam Zaeef |publisher=[[C. Hurst & Co.]] |date=2013 |page=20, also note 15|isbn=9781849044455 }}</ref>
<ref name=kyrnew>{{cite web |url=http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/kyrgyzstan/hypermail/200103/0052.html |title=New Governor for Parwan |work=Kyrgyzstan Daily Digest |via=[[EurasiaNet]] |date=21 March 2001 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20010721030508/http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/kyrgyzstan/hypermail/200103/0052.html |archivedate=21 July 2001 }}</ref>
<ref name=trarec>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/guantanamo/detainees/367-mohammed-yusif-yaqub |title=Transfer Recommendation for GTMO Detainee, Mohammed Yusif Yakub, ISN: US9AF-00367DP |work=[[U.S. Department of Defense]] |via=[[New York Times]] |date=14 December 2002}}</ref>
<ref name=colmul>{{cite web |url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/mullah |title=Definition of 'mullah' |work=[[Collins English Dictionary]]}}</ref>
<ref name=mermul>{{cite web |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mullah |title=Definition of mullah |work=[[Merriam-Webster Dictionary]]}}</ref>
<ref name=nytval>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/21/world/the-reach-of-war-us-said-to-overstate-value-of-guantanamo-detainees.html |title=THE REACH OF WAR; U.S. Said to Overstate Value Of Guantánamo Detainees |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=21 June 2004}}</ref>
<ref name=reurel>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-guantanamo-detainees-factbox-idUSN1433833520070514 |title=FACTBOX: Pentagon releases data on former Gitmo detainees |work=[[Reuters]] |date=15 May 2007}}</ref>
<ref name=herald>{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LgUTAQAAMAAJ&q=%22mullah+shahzada%22 |title=The Herald, Volume 35, Issues 10-12 |work=[[Herald (Pakistan)|Herald]] |via=[[University of Michigan]] |date=2004}}</ref>
<ref name=nytres>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/06/world/aftereffects-islamic-militants-in-pakistan-border-towns-taliban-has-a-resurgence.html |title=AFTEREFFECTS: ISLAMIC MILITANTS; In Pakistan Border Towns, Taliban Has a Resurgence |work=[[New York Times]] |date=6 May 2003}}</ref>
<ref name=timrev>{{cite magazine |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,994373,00.html |title=After Gitmo, A Talib Takes Revenge |magazine=[[TIME (magazine)|TIME]] |date=7 June 2004}}</ref>
<ref name=strdes>{{cite web |url=https://worldview.stratfor.com/weekly/destruction-sarposa |title=The Destruction of Sarposa |work=[[Stratfor]] |date=18 June 2008}}</ref>
<ref name=peocla>{{cite news |url=http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200510/22/eng20051022_216100.html |title=Clash leaves 9 police dead in South Afghanistan |work=[[People's Daily]] |date=22 October 2005}}</ref>
<ref name=newlas>{{cite news |url=http://www.newsweek.com/last-days-taliban-123543 |title=LAST DAYS OF THE TALIBAN? |work=[[Newsweek]] |date=26 December 2004}}</ref>
<ref name=chr7>{{cite web |url=http://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/report-situation-human-rights-afghanistan-submitted-mr-kamal-hossain-special |title=Report on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan submitted by Mr. Kamal Hossain, Special Rapporteur, in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 2000/18: Addendum |work=[[U.N. Commission on Human Rights]] |via=[[ReliefWeb]] |date=27 March 2001 |at=para. 7, 12}}</ref>
<ref name=chr11>{{cite web |url=http://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/report-situation-human-rights-afghanistan-submitted-mr-kamal-hossain-special |title=Report on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan submitted by Mr. Kamal Hossain, Special Rapporteur, in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 2000/18: Addendum |work=U.N. Commission on Human Rights |via=ReliefWeb |date=27 March 2001 |at=para. 11, 12}}</ref>
<ref name=ajphum>{{cite web |url=https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/ajpreport_20050718.pdf#page=128 |title=Casting Shadows: War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity: 1978-2001 |work=Afghanistan Justice Project |date=July 2005 |pages=128–131}}</ref>
<ref name=hrwhaz>{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5f454RB7c5IC&pg=PA8 |title=Afghanistan: Massacres of Hazaras in Afghanistan |work=[[Human Rights Watch]] |date=19 February 2001 |pages=8–10}}</ref>
}}


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For the unrelated Guantanamo captive, see Shahzada (Guantanamo Bay detainee 952).

Shahzada
Born1960[1]
Afghanistan
Arrested26 November 2001
Kunduz
Northern Alliance
Released8 May 2003
Kabul
Died7 May 2004
Detained at Sheberghan Prison; Kandahar; Guantanamo Bay detention camp
Other name(s) Mohammed Yusif Yaqub
ISN367
StatusReleased, reengaged, and then killed.
ParentsMohammad Gul Aka (father)

Shahzada Akhund (1960 – 7 May 2004), known also by the title Mullah, was a Taliban militant commander who was held at Guantanamo Bay following the 2001 ouster of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. He used a false name, Mohammed Yusif Yaqub, and pretended to be an innocent civilian.

He succeeded in convincing the Americans that he posed no threat and was released. He subsequently rejoined the Taliban, fighting the U.S. forces in Afghanistan. He died in combat in 2004.

Prior to United States invasion of Afghanistan

[edit]

Shahzada was from Mira Khor, a small village in the Maywand district of Kandahar Province, southern Afghanistan. He was from the Tarakai tribe, and his father was Mohammad Gul Aka.[2] He was born in 1960. He was educated at a madrassa in Pakistan.[2]

In 2001, a Mullah Shahzada was reported as a member of the Taliban delegation charged with the responsibility of the destruction of statues.[3] The term mullah is primarily understood in the Muslim world as a term of respect for an educated religious man.[4][5] There was at least one other contemporary "Mullah Shahzada" active among the Taliban in Afghanistan.[*]

A report by the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, identified a Mullah Shahzad Kandahari ("Kandahari" refers to hailing from Kandahar) as being involved in a massacre in Rabatak, in Samangan province.[6] According to a human rights organisations, he was the commander of Khinjan front, north of Kabul, and was allegedly responsible for the execution of 31 civilian detainees near the Rabatak Pass in May 2000.[7][8] The following year, in January 2001, following the Taliban recapture of Yakawlang in Bamyan province from the United Front, the U.N. alleged he was involved in the killing of several hundred civilians, including a U.N staff member and a number of aid agency workers.[9]

United States invasion of Afghanistan

[edit]

Following the United States invasion of Afghanistan, and the surrender of the Taliban forces holding Kunduz, in northern Afghanistan, Shahzada was captured by Northern Alliance forces on 26 November 2001.[10] He pretended to be an innocent rug merchant captured by mistake and used a false name,[11] Mohammed Yusif Yaqub.[12] In reality, he had been a Taliban officer during the invasion.[11] He was transported to Sheberghan Prison, where he was held for seven weeks, before being handed over to the United States at Kandahar. He was later transferred to Guantanamo Bay detention camp, arriving on 15 June 2002, where he was given the Internment Serial Number (ISN) 367.[10]

During his time in Guantanamo, he was consistent and stuck to his cover story about being a rug merchant.[11] Ultimately, he was successful in convincing the American authorities that he was not a Taliban leader and that he did not pose a threat to U.S. interests. As a result, in December 2002, Shahzada was recommended for release. This occurred on 8 May 2003,[12] and he was flown to Kabul.[13] Gul Agha Sherzai, the post-Taliban governor of Kandahar, has said that Afghan offers of help in identifying known Talibans, which might have shown Shahzada's cover story to be false, were repeatedly rejected.[14]

Once back in Afghanistan, he returned to combat as a commander, recruiting fighters using stories of established poor treatment at the hands of the Americans in Guanatanamo as a recruiting tool. He was also behind a significant prison break:[14] in October 2003 he arranged for forty-one Taliban prisoners to escape from Sarposa prison, including the brother of the Taliban defence minister.[15] The New York Times reported that after his return to fighting, he was responsible for the operations that killed at least thirteen people, including two aid workers.[11]

Newsweek named him Mullah Shahzada Akhund, describing him as a senior leader. They placed him in the Arghandab district, near Kandahar, where he met with the leader of the Taliban, Mohammed Omar, ten days before his death.[16] He died 7 May 2004.[12] His death has variously been described as occurring in action against the U.S,[12] and as being an accident.[11] Newsweek, whose report is the most detailed, refers to it as a friendly-fire incident.[16] He died in Nalgham, near Kandahar.[2]

Other mentions of a Mullah Shahzada

[edit]

Two days before the release from Guantanamo of ISN 367, who was released on 8 May 2003,[12] the New York Times reported in an article about the resurgence of the Taliban in an interview with a "religious teacher and former fighter" named Mullah Shahzada, in Quetta, Pakistan. This Shahzada was reported as coming from Helmand province,[17] not Kandahar province.

The People's Daily reports that a Mullah Shahzada was injured during a firefight in Helmand province in October 2005.[18]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Transfer Recommendationfor GTMO Detainee, MohammedYusif Yaqub, ISN: US9AF-00367DP" (PDF). US: Department of Defense. 14 December 2002. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  2. ^ a b c My Life with the Taliban. C. Hurst & Co. 2013. p. 20, also note 15. ISBN 9781849044455. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  3. ^ "New Governor for Parwan". Kyrgyzstan Daily Digest. 21 March 2001. Archived from the original on 21 July 2001 – via EurasiaNet.
  4. ^ "Definition of 'mullah'". Collins English Dictionary.
  5. ^ "Definition of mullah". Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
  6. ^ "Report on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan submitted by Mr. Kamal Hossain, Special Rapporteur, in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 2000/18: Addendum". U.N. Commission on Human Rights. 27 March 2001. para. 7, 12 – via ReliefWeb.
  7. ^ "Afghanistan: Massacres of Hazaras in Afghanistan". Human Rights Watch. 19 February 2001. pp. 8–10.
  8. ^ "Casting Shadows: War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity: 1978-2001" (PDF). Afghanistan Justice Project. July 2005. pp. 128–131.
  9. ^ "Report on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan submitted by Mr. Kamal Hossain, Special Rapporteur, in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 2000/18: Addendum". U.N. Commission on Human Rights. 27 March 2001. para. 11, 12 – via ReliefWeb.
  10. ^ a b "Transfer Recommendation for GTMO Detainee, Mohammed Yusif Yakub, ISN: US9AF-00367DP". U.S. Department of Defense. 14 December 2002 – via New York Times.
  11. ^ a b c d e "THE REACH OF WAR; U.S. Said to Overstate Value Of Guantánamo Detainees". The New York Times. 21 June 2004.
  12. ^ a b c d e "FACTBOX: Pentagon releases data on former Gitmo detainees". Reuters. 15 May 2007.
  13. ^ "The Herald, Volume 35, Issues 10-12". Herald. 2004 – via University of Michigan.
  14. ^ a b "After Gitmo, A Talib Takes Revenge". TIME. 7 June 2004.
  15. ^ "The Destruction of Sarposa". Stratfor. 18 June 2008.
  16. ^ a b "LAST DAYS OF THE TALIBAN?". Newsweek. 26 December 2004.
  17. ^ "AFTEREFFECTS: ISLAMIC MILITANTS; In Pakistan Border Towns, Taliban Has a Resurgence". New York Times. 6 May 2003.
  18. ^ "Clash leaves 9 police dead in South Afghanistan". People's Daily. 22 October 2005.
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