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Abdul Rahman Noorani

Abdul Rahman Noorani
Born	1973 (age 50–51)
Arrested	January 2002 Pakistan Pakistan Armed Forces
Released	July 16, 2003 (2003-07-16) Afghanistan
Citizenship	Afghanistan
Detained at	Guantanamo Bay detainment camp
ISN	582
Status	Repatriated

Abdul Rahman Noorani is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1] His Internment Serial Number was 582.

He was repatriated on July 16, 2003.^[2]

Claims he "returned to the fight"

The Defense Intelligence Agency would later assert that during an Al Jazeera interview from October 7, 2001, he was identified as the “deputy defense minister of the Taliban.” He had been arrested by Pakistani troops and handed over to US forces. The DIA would also identify him later as a "former Guantanamo captive who returned to the fight":^[3]

Abdul Rahman Noor: Noor was released in July of 2003, and has since participated in fighting against US forces near Kandahar. After his release, Noor was identified as the person in an October 7, 2001, video interview with al-Jazeerah TV network, wherein he is identified as the “deputy defense minister of the Taliban.” In this interview, he described the defensive position of the mujahideen and claimed they had recently downed an airplane.^[4]

References

^ OARDEC (2006-05-15). "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
^ "Abdul Rahman Noorani - The Guantánamo Docket". The New York Times. 18 May 2021.
^ Mike Melia (2007-05-15). "U.S. Says 6 Ex-Gitmo Detainees Active". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on 2009-05-26.
^ "Fact Sheet: Former GTMO Detainee Terrorism Trends" (PDF). Defense Intelligence Agency. 2008-06-13. Archived from the original on 9 July 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-26.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)