Abdul Ghafar (Afghan mujahideen fighter)

Abdul Ghafar is a citizen of Afghanistan who was identified as a mujahideen fighter during the Combatant Status Review Tribunal of a Guantanamo captive.

Guantanamo captive Muhibullah faced the allegation, during his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, that:

  • ''"The Detainee acquired a rifle from a Mujahideen fighter, Abdul Ghafar."

Muhibullah denied knowing anyone named Abdul Ghafar. He acknowledged being conscripted into the Taliban. He acknowledged being assigned to be a security guard. He acknowledged handling a rifle, when it was his sentry watch. But he said he and the other sentries had just one rifle to share among themselves, and that he never fired this weapon.

The allegation that Muhibullah received a rifle from Abdul Ghafar is notable because the files of US counterterrorism analysts would contain records of several individuals named Abdul Ghafar, or some variation thereof. But the intelligence analysts who prepared the allegations failed to identify, in the unclassified summary of evidence, from which individual named Abdul Ghafar, Muhibullah was accused of accepting a rifle.

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Abdul Ghaffar

Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin

  • Accused of assisting in the [...] of three Red Cross workers on March 27 2003.

Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdul Ghaffar'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 25-32

  • Accused of possessing a cell phone on April 3 2003
  • Allegedly fled his home, and hid from US forces in a creek bed.

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Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar

Taliban

  • US officials, including Vice President [...] Cheney, claim a Taliban leader named Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar tricked his interrogators into thinking he was a simple, harmless, illiterate, monoglot villager, who could safely be released. Then, according to Cheney, he "returned to the battlefield", and was killed in action on September 26, 2004.

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Abdul Ghafour

Taliban

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Haji Abdul Ghafour

Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin

  • During Guantanamo captive Juma Din's Administrative Review Board hearing he was alleged to have been a bodyguard for a senior Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin leader named Haji Abdul Ghafour.

[http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Transcript_Set_9_21017-21351..pdf Summarized transcript (.pdf)], from Juma Din's Administrative Review Board hearing - page 261

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Mullah Abdul Ghafour

Taliban

  • A Taliban leader named Mullah Abdul Ghafour is alleged to have been one of the three senior Taliban leaders responsible for a massacre of several hundred civilians when Taliban forces reoccupied Yakaolong, on January 7 2001, and for several days thereafter.{{cite web