Inayatullah
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Inayatullah 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
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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His Guantánamo Internment Serial Number was 10029.

Until his death, Inayatullah was held in Guantánamo for 3 years, 8 months, and 22 days.

The US claims he admitted being an al Qaeda leader. They claim he was headquartered in Zahedan
Zahedan
Zahedan is a city in and the capital of Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 552,706, in 109,488 families.-Geography:...

, Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

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Inayatullah is the 19th captive to have been transferred to Guantánamo since September 6, 2006.
Prior to the transfer of fourteen high value detainees, on that date, who had previously been held in secret detention centers run by the CIA, the USA hadn't transferred any captives to Guantánamo since the United States Supreme Court ruling in Rasul v. Bush
Rasul v. Bush
Rasul v. Bush, 542 U.S. 466 , is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision establishing that the U.S. court system has the authority to decide whether foreign nationals held in Guantanamo Bay were wrongfully imprisoned...

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In late November 2008 the New York Times published a page summarizing the official documents from each captive.
The New York Times stated that no further official records of his detention—no Combatant Status Review Tribunal
Combatant Status Review Tribunal
The Combatant Status Review Tribunals were a set of tribunals for confirming whether detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had been correctly designated as "enemy combatants". The CSRTs were established July 7, 2004 by order of U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense...

had been published.
They identified him as identified captive 10029.

Death in Guantanamo

On May 18, 2011, Inayatullah was found dead either in his cell or in a recreation area. The cause of his death is unknown but the U.S. military released a statement saying that he died in an "apparent suicide".

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