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Haji Ghalib

Ghalib was interviewed by The Guardian in 2006. The Guardian described him as a "tribal elder", and that their sources had independently confirmed that he had fought against the Taliban.

Ghalib was interviewed by the Associated Press in February 2009. According to the Associated Press Ghalib had been held in Camp four, the camp for compliant captives. He shared a cell there with ISN 1001, a captive who an employee of Hamid Karzai's government, who was denounced by a rival militia leader, who, ironically, was himself subsequently denounced and sent to Guantanamo. The Associated Press sought out Ghalib for more information about ISN 1001 because he was subsequently re-apprehended by US forces, and held, for years, in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility, and his lawyers and civil rights workers fear that he is being held based on the same original false allegations.

The Associated Press also quoted Ghalib's own experience with police corruption he experienced on his return from Guantanamo. He described local police trying to solicit a bribe, after which he would be given a government job.