Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin - Accused Combatant Prisoners at Guantanamo

Accused Combatant Prisoners At Guantanamo

Dozens of inmates at the United States prison at Guantanamo Bay faced allegations that they had been associated with the Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin.

Originally the Bush Presidency asserted it was not obliged to let any captives apprehended in Afghanistan know why they were being held, or to provide a venue where they could challenge the allegations against them. However, the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush required the institution of a review. The Supreme Court recommended the reviews be modeled after the Army Regulation 190-8 Tribunals that were ordinarily used to determine whether captives were innocent civilians who should be released, lawful combatants entitled to Prisoner of War status, or war criminals who could be tried, and who weren't protected by all the provisions of the Geneva Conventions.

The Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants (OARDEC). OARDEC administered an initial Combatant Status Review Tribunal for the 558 Guantanamo captives who were still in the detention camp as of August 2004. Unlike the AR 190-8 Tribunals, the Combatant Status Review Tribunals were not authorized to determine whether captives were entitled to POW status, only whether they were "enemy combatants. OARDEC also administered annual Administrative Review Board hearings. The Boards were only authorized to make a recommendation as to whether captives might represent an ongoing threat, or might continue to hold intelligence value, and therefore should continue to be held in US custody.

Close to 10,000 pages of documents from the Combatant Status Review Tribunals and Administrative Review Board hearings were released after contested Freedom of Information Act requests.

Dozens of captives faced allegations that they had been associated with the Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin. Some of the documents just alleged that a captive was associated with Hezb-e-Islami, without explaining why this implied they were an "enemy combatant". Other documents did provide brief explanations as how an association with Hezb-e-Islami implied a captive was an "enemy combatant". Neither Hezb-e-Islami nor Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin are on the U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations and they never have been; but Gubludding is on the additional list called "Groups of Concern."

  • Abdullah Mujahid
  • Haji Hamidullah
  • Alif Mohammed
  • Adel Hassan Hamad
  • "Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin is a faction of the Hezb-e-Islami party, and it was one of the major mudjahedin groups in the war against the Soviets. Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin has long-established ties with Bin Ladin."
  • Mahbub Rahman
  • Gulbuddin Hikmatyar founded HIG as a faction of the Hizb-Islami party in 1977, and it was one of the major Mujahadin groups in the war against the Soviets. HIG has long established ties with Usama Bin Laden. HIG has staged small attacks in its attempt to force NATO troops to withdraw from Afghanistan, overthrow the Afghan government, and establish a fundamentalist state.
  • Juma Din
  • Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin was one of the major mujahedin groups in the war against the Soviets. Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin has long-established ties with Bin Laden. Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin has staged small attacks in its attempt to force U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan, overthrow the Afghan Transitional Admininstration (Afghan Transitional Administration), and establish a fundamentalist state.
  • Taj Mohammed
  • The Secretary of State has identified the HIG as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. Gulbuddin Hikmatyar founded HIG as a faction of the Hizb-I Islami party in 1977 and it was one of the major Mujahedin groups in the war against the Soviets. HIG has long-established ties with Usama bin Ladin. HIG has stages small attacks in its attempt to force United States troops to withdraw from Afghanistan, overthrow the Afghanistan government, and establish a fundamentalist state.
  • Mohammed Quasam
  • Gulbuddin Hekmatyar founded Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin as a faction of the Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin party in 1977, and that it was one of the major Mujadhedin groups in the war against the Soviets; that the Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin has long established ties with Usama Bin Ladin; that Hexb-e-Islami Gulbuddin has staged small attacks in its attmpt to force United States troops to withdraw from Afghanistan, overthrow the Afghanistan Transitional Administration, and establish a fundamentalist state.
  • Akhtar Mohammed
  • The Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) is a faction of the Hizb-I Islami party and was one of the major mujahedin groups in the war against the Soviets. HIG has long established ties with Bin Laden. In early 1990s, the HIG ran several terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and was pioneer in sending mercenary fighters to other Islamic conflicts. The HIG offered to shelter Bin Laden after he hfled Sudan in 1996.
  • Nasrullah
  • Abdul Zahor
  • Abdul Ghaffar
  • Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin has staged small attacks in its attempt to force U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan, overthrow the Afghan Transitional Administration and establish a fundamentalist state.
  • Jumma Jan
  • HIG has long-established ties with Usama Bin Laden. HIG has staged small attacks in its attempt to force U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan, overthrow the Afghan Transitional Administration and establish a fundamentalist state.
  • Jumma Jan
  • Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) has been designated by the United States as a terrorist organization.
  • Sharbat
  • Taj Mohammed
  • "The HIG is listed in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Terrorist Organization Reference Guide as having long-established ties with Usama Bin Laden."
  • Abdul Zahor
  • HIG is listed on the Department of Homeland Security Terrorist Organization Reference Guide.
  • Mohammed Quasam
  • The United States Department of Homeland Security has designated Hexb-e-Islami Gulbuddin as a terrorist organization.
  • Sharifullah
  • "Hezb-E-Islam/Gulbuddin (HIG) members recruited young and impressionable radical men from the Shamshatoo Refugee camp to train at camps focusing on advanced training including remote controlled Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and electronics."
  • Abdul Majid Muhammed
  • "Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) has long established ties with Usama Bin Ladin. (HIG) founder Gulbuddin Hikmatyar offered to shelter Bin Ladin after the latter fled Sudan in 1996. HIG has staged small attacks in its attempt to force U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan, overthrow the Afghan Transitional Administration (ATA) and establish a fundamentalist state.
  • Lufti Bin Swei Lagha
  • "The Armed Islamic Group (GIA) and Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin are designated terrorist organizations. Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin ran terrorist training camps in Afghanistan. They have staged attacks in an attempt to force U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan."
  • Adel Hassan Hamad
  • "In the early 1990s, Hikmatyar ran several terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and was a pioneer in sending mercenary fighters to other Islamic conflicts. Hikmatyar offered to shelter Bin Laden after the latter fled Sudan in 1996."
  • Mohammed Nasim
  • Sabar Lal Melma
  • Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) has long established ties with Usama Bin Laden. HIG was known to have several terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and was the pioneer in sending mercenary fighter to other Islamic conflicts. The founder of HIG was known to have shelteed Usama Bin Laden after he fled the Sudan. HIG has staged small attacks in its attempt to force U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan.
  • Haji Nasrat Khan
  • Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) was one of the major mujahedin groups in the war against the Soviets. HIG has long established ties with Usama bin Laden. Gulbuddin Hikmatyar founded HIG. Hikmatyar ran several terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and was a pioneer in sending mercenary fightters to other Islamic fighting conflicts. Hikmatyar offered to shelter Usama bin Laden after he later fled Sudan in 1996.
  • Mohamed Jawad
  • The Hezb-E-Islami organization is a terrorist organization with long-established ties to Bin Laden.
  • Juma Din
  • HIG is a designated terrorist group with long-established links to Usama Bin Laden.
  • Akhtiar Mohammad
  • The HiG is listed in the Terrorist Organization Reference Guide as having long-established ties with Usama Bin Laden.
  • Faiz Ullah
  • The Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) has been identified as an organization which sponsor terrorism.
  • Jumma Jan
  • HIG has been designated by the United States as a terrorist organization.
  • Faiz Ullah
  • The Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) was founded by Hikmatyar in 1977, as a faction of the Hezb-e Islami party, and it was one of the major mujahedin groups in the war against Soviets. HIG has long-established ties with Usama bin Laden.
  • Rahmatullah Sangaryar
  • Hamidullah
  • Mohammed Mussa Yakubi
  • Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) is a terrorist group.
  • Mohammed Mustafa Sohail
  • Hezb-E-Islami Gulbuddin is a known terrorist organization that has long established ties to al Qaida.
  • Haji Nasrat Khan
  • The HIG is an active terrorist organization in Afghanistan with long established ties to Usama Bin Laden.
  • Abdul Razak
  • In the spring of 2003, Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, Hizb-I-Islami Gulbuddin leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and Usama bin Laden agreed to unite their forces.
  • Gholam Ruhani
  • The Taliban military commander is associated with Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin (HIG). The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Terrorist Organization Reference Guide, states that HIG has long established ties with Usama Bin Laden and has staged attacks in attempts to force United States troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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