Mullah

Mullah

Mullah is generally used to refer to a Muslim man, educated in Islamic theology and sacred law. The title, given to some Islamic clergy, is derived from the Arabic word مَوْلَى mawlā , meaning "vicar", "master" and "guardian"...

 Mohammad Fazil is an Afghan

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...

 currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba

Cuba

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 after being classified as an enemy combatant

Enemy combatant

Enemy combatant is a term historically referring to members of the armed forces of the state with which another state is at war. Prior to 2008, the definition was: "Any person in an armed conflict who could be properly detained under the laws and customs of war." In the case of a civil war or an...

 by the United States

United States

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's. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 7. American intelligence analysts estimate that Fazil was born in 1967, in Charchno, Afghanistan

As of August 12, 2011, Mullah Mohammad Fazl has been held at Guantanamo for nine years seven months.

Background

Fazil is alleged to have served as the Taliban's former deputy defense minister.
Although he negotiated an amnesty with Afghan Northern Alliance leader General Dostum.

Held abord the USS Bataan

Former TlibnAmbassador to Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

 Abdul Salam Zaeef

Abdul Salam Zaeef

Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef was the Afghan ambassador to Pakistan before the US invasion of Afghanistan.He was detained in Pakistan in the fall of 2001 as an and held until 2005 in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp...

 described being flown to the United States Navy

United States Navy

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's amphibious warfare vessel, the USS Bataan

USS Bataan

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, for special interrogation.
Zaeef wrote that the cells were located six decks down, were only 1 meter by 2 meters.
He wrote that the captives weren't allowed to speak with one another,
but that he "eventually saw that Mullahs Fazal, Noori, Burhan, Wasseeq Sahib and Rohani were all among the other prisoners."
Historian Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington is a British historian, journalist, and film director.He has published three books, and been published in numerous publications.In 2009 Worthington was the co-director of a documentary about the Guantanamo detainees....

, author of the The Guantanamo Files,
identified Fazil as one of the men Zaeef recognized.

External links

• Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Two: Captured in Afghanistan (2001) Andy Worthington, September 17, 2010