User:Geo Swan/Guantanamo/not ready yet/Alif Khan

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Alif Khan is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 673. JTF-GTMO analysts estimate he was born in 1968 in Khost, Afghanistan.

Release
Alif Khan was one of the 201 captives who were released or repatriated prior to having their "enemy combatant status" confirmed by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

McClatchy interview
On June 15 2008 the McClatchy News Service published articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives. McClatchy reporters interviewed Alif Khan in Kabul. Alif Khan said that he was captured by warlord militia-men, at a roadblock. The same troops had captured him a few days previously, but had set him free after he paid a bribe. The second time they beat him, and turned him over to the Americans.

Alif Khan was released in March 2003, making him one of the first captives to be set free. He said he spent 20 days in the Kandahar detention facility, and 45 days in the Bagram collection point, prior to being transferred to Guantanamo.

Alif Khan said he was interrogated twice a day during his first month in Guantanamo, but that his interrogations fell off to once a month or less for his remaining time.

Abdullah Mujahid, the warlord whose troops turned him over to the Americans, was himself denounced, and sent to Guantanamo.

Alif Khan said he was subjected to sleep deprivation, and was made to sleep in shackles, but he was not beaten. He saw GIs beat other captives, however. And he saw other captives attempt suicide.

Upon his return to Afghanistan he had to move from Khost to Kabul for his own safety. His early release meant that local Taliban sympathizers thought he had collaborated with the Americans, and he feared retribution.