Presence in Iran 2002-2010
His whereabouts, as he moved around to escape capture by the United States in the following months, are unclear. According to the Long War Journal, by 2002 Suleiman was living in Iran. In July 2003, a Kuwaiti minister announced that the Iranian government was holding Abu Ghaith and that Kuwait had refused an offer from Iran to extradite him to Kuwait. The Long War Journal described his detention as "a loose form of house arrest". On September 28, 2010, it was reported by Kuwait officials that he was freed from Iran, in exchange for the release of Heshmatollah Attarzadeh, an Iranian diplomat kidnapped in November 2008, and returned to Afghanistan.
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