Abdul Karim (Guantanamo detainee 520)

Abdul Karim is a citizen of Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

who was held in the United States

United States

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Guantanamo Bay detainment camp

The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a detainment and interrogation facility of the United States located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The facility was established in 2002 by the Bush Administration to hold detainees from the war in Afghanistan and later Iraq...

s, in Cuba

Cuba

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American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1982, in Sangin

Sangin

Sangin is a town in Helmand province of Afghanistan, with population of approximately 14,000 people. It is located on in the valley of the Helmand River at 888 m altitude, 95 km to the north-east of Lashkar Gah. Sangin is notorious as one of the central locations of the opium trade in the...

, Afghanistan.

Abdul Karim was transferred to Afghanistan on May 9, 2003. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 520.

External links

WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Three of Five) Andy Worthington

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