Background
According to a profile in the Miami Herald he fled civil war in Tajikistan in 1991, when he was just 13 years old. Carol Rosenberg wrote that reviewing his files indicates he was a cooperative captive, who did not participate in the widespread hunger strikes, and that, unlike other captives, he participated in all his annual status reviews. In 2009, the Obama government decided they would no longer claim Omar was an enemy combatant. Omar is one of the Guantanamo captives who, even though they have been cleared for release, would rather stay in Guantanamo, than be repatriated, to his home country, because he fears torture.
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