Guantanamo Detentions
Several of the captives held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba are held because Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO) intelligence analysts asserted they had some kind of connection to al-Barakat.
Guantanamo captives held because they were allegedly tied to al-Barakat
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Ilkham Turdbyavich Batayev |
- Ilkham Turdbyavich Batayev, was a Kazakh, who JTF-GTMO analysts thought was a citizen of Uzbekistan for at least the first four years of his stay in Guantanamo. He was, however, eventually returned to his real home, Kazakhstan.
- Among the factors favoring his continued detention were that he worked as one of the "cashiers" in an office of al-Barakat in Uzbekistan run by a man named Adbuhalim Pakhrutdinov . JTF-GTMO analysts had received intelligence reports from a "foreign service" that Adbuhalim Pakhrutdinov was "a major supporter of Islamic extremist activities in Central Asia and a major financier of the IMU (Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan)."
- Repatriated and set free on December 21, 2006.
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Mohammed Sulaymon Barre |
- Mohammed Sulaymon Barre was a Somali, living in a Pakistani refugee camp, who worked for a Somalia hawala named Dahabshiil, that JTF-GTMO analysts asserted had ties to al-Barakat.
- The alleged connection between al-Qaeda and al-Barakat, and an alleged connection between al-Barakat and Barre's hawala Dahabshiil, was sufficient justification for his continued detention. The connection JTF-GTMO analysts asserted was that al-Barakat and Dahabshiil had shared customers and resources. Barre explained that the two hawalas were competitors, and that when al-Barakat was suspended, its former customers shifted their business to Dahabshiil.
- It is known that Barre was still in Guantanamo when he participated in his first Administrative Review Board hearing. on September 30, 2005.
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