Lists of former Guantanamo Bay detainees alleged to have returned to terrorism

• Had been a senior Taliban military leader prior to capture.
• Captured in Afghanistan in December 2001, was one of the twenty-three prisoners released from Camp Delta in late January 2004. After his release, he joined the remnants of the Taliban and was killed in a gunfight on September 26, 2004.^{[13][14][15][16][17]}
• The official list of Guantanamo captives included two men with the same name, who remained in custody years after Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar had been reported to have been released, and killed in combat.^[6]

• Reportedly captured in Afghanistan in December 2001 after surrendering to Abdul Rashid Dostum.
• That he was ever been captured, and sent to Guantanamo has been challenged.^[18]
• Allegedly masterminded the kidnapping of two Chinese engineers in Pakistan's South Waziristan region.
• Allegedly returning to his position as an Al-Qaeda field commander.^[15] One of the Chinese engineers died during a rescue mission, the other was rescued.^[19]
• Mehsud also claimed responsibility for the bombing at Islamabad's Marriott Hotel in October 2004. The blast injured seven people, including a U.S. diplomat, two Italians and the Pakistani prime minister's chief security officer. Mehsud was subsequently reported to have been killed in combat.

• Reported to have had military training in Chechnya.^[20]
• Convicted of bombing a natural gas pipeline on May 9, 2006.^[21]
• Sentenced to 13 years.^[22]

• Repatriated to Russian custody, cleared, then released.^[23]

• One of the first 200 captives to be repatriated.^[24][25]
• Reported seeing guards urinate on the Koran.^[25]
• Reported being tortured while in US custody, reported that all the techniques used in Abu Ghraib were first used on captives like him in Bagram.^[25]
• Convicted in September 2007 of recruiting fighters to send to Iraq.^[22]

• Sued Donald Rumsfeld upon his release.^[26]
• Ibrahim Shafir Sen was transferred to Turkey in November 2003.^[22] In January 2008, Sen was arrested in Van, Turkey, and charged as the leader of an active al-Qaida cell.

• Reports of the release, return to the battlefield, and subsequent death in combat of Mullah Shahzada, while reported in the press, is always attributed to unnamed insiders.^{[27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]}
• The official list of Guantanamo captives included a man the same name, Haji Shahzada who remained in custody years after the stories that Mullah Shahzada had been reported to have been released, and killed in combat. Haji Shahzada was one of the 38 captives whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal determined they had not been an enemy combatant in the first place.
• On Monday, May 14, 2007, Pentagon officials, for the first time, tied the reports that "Mullah Shahzada" had returned to the battlefield to the name of one of the captives on the official list of Guantanamo captives, Mohammed Yusif Yaqub.^[5] According to Reuters summary of their testimony:

"Released May 8, 2003, he assumed control of Taliban operations in Southern Afghanistan and died fighting U.S. forces on May 7, 2004."

The Defense Intelligence Agency asserted Ibrahim Bin Shakaran had "returned to terrorism". The DIA reported:

• In September 2007 he was convicted in a Moroccan court for recruiting fighters for Al Qaida in Iraq in 2005.^[22]
• Allegedly he was working to create an al Qaida in the Lands of the Maghreb.^[22]
• Allegedly he was coordinating "sleeper cells" to go for training and return to Morocco.^[22]

• First identified as a former captive who had returned to the battlefield in Testimony before Congress on Monday May 14, 2007.^[5] According to Reuters summary of their testimony:

"Released from Guantanamo in early 2004, he was recaptured four months later in May while participating in an attack on U.S. forces near Kandahar. When captured, Ismail carried a letter confirming his status as a Taliban member in good standing."

• First identified as a former captive who had returned to the battlefield in Testimony before Congress on Monday May 14, 2007.^[5] According to Reuters summary of their testimony:

"Released in July 2003, he has since participated in fighting against U.S. forces near Kandahar. After his release, he was identified as the man described in an October 7, 2001, interview with Al Jazeera television as the "deputy defense minister of the Taliban."

• First identified as a former captive who had returned to the battlefield in Testimony before Congress on Monday, May 14, 2007.^[5] According to Reuters summary of their testimony:

Released from U.S. custody in July 2003, he quickly renewed his association with Taliban and al Qaeda members and has since become "reinvolved in anti-coalition militant activity."

• One of the three children who was held for a two years, in Camp Iguana, and released on January 29, 2004. He was reported by the Pentagon as having been captured in an attack on U.S. forces four months later.^[35]

• In 2007 he was transferred to the American wing of the Pul-e-Charkhi prison.^[44]
• A false name used by Abdul Qayyum Zakir, a senior commander in the Taliban.
• British officials believed Rasoul became the Taliban's operations commander in southern Afghanistan soon after his release and blamed him for masterminding an increase in roadside attacks against British and American troops.^[44]
• The New York Times reported that Rasoul led a December 2008-January 2009 delegation to the Pakistani Taliban to convince them to refocus their efforts away from the Pakistani government and towards the American-led forces in Afghanistan.^[45]

• Was an athlete who fled persecution in Russia when he was a teenager.
• Was captured in 2006 following an attack on Russian government facilities in October 2005.^{[46][47][48][49][50]}
• His family reports that his stay in Afghanistan and Guantanamo had left him with serious health problems, and that he was at home, under his mother's care, at the time of the attack.

• Said Mohammed Alim Shah^[51]
• aka Abdullah Mehsud

• Knew the three men who died in the camp on June 10, 2006.^[52] He expressed skepticism about the official version, and questioned the credibility of the allegations against them.
• In October 2008 Saudi authorities apprehended and detained al Noaimi when he was on a visit to Saudi Arabia.^[53]
• Saudi authorities continue to hold him—without charge.^[54][55][56]

• Accused of recruiting for Al Qaeda in Iraq.^[51]

• Graduated from the Saudi jihadist rehabilitation center.^[57][58]
• Unexpectedly left Saudi Arabia without government permission in December 2008.
• Appeared in a threatening video published by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in January 2009.
• Was named on a Saudi Arabian list of most wanted suspected terrorists in February 2009.
• Voluntarily surrendered himself to Saudi security officials in March 2009.^{[59][60][61][62][63]}

• Graduated from the Saudi jihadist rehabilitation center.^[57][58]
• Unexpectedly left Saudi Arabia without government permission in December 2008.
• Appeared in a threatening video published by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in January 2009, where he was described as the group's second in command.
• Was named on a Saudi Arabian list of most wanted suspected terrorists in February 2009.
• Called upon Somali pirates to increase their attacks on western shipping.^[64]

• Faced charges in Kuwait following his repatriation on November 4, 2005.^[65] The charges were based on evidence supplied by the USA that he had ties to Al Wafa.^[66][67] The Kuwaiti court acquitted Al Azmi.

• Accused of recruiting for Al Qaeda in Iraq.^[51]

• Arrested in Russia in March 2006.^[68]

• Member of Jama'at-ud-Da'wah Pakistan, a group created in 1985 to fight the Soviet occupation. Although designated a terrorist organization in 2008 by the State Department, it is not on any of the official U.S. watchlists as it has worked as a charity with no military wing since 1991.
• Commander of Kunar anti-Taliban forces.
• In 2002, represented Kunar Province in the Grand Assembly.
• Arrested in August 2002 after an informer claimed he had helped members of al Qaida escape from Kunar. The Afghanistan government believes the head of the rival Mushwani tribe had turned Wakil in because the Mushwani tribe opposed a poppy eradication program that Wakil had begun in Kunar.
• Released in April 2008. Upon his release Wakil met with President Hamid Karzai who apologized for his detention.
• Currently a tribal elder representing Kunar province in the Afghanistan government.^[69]

• Transferred from Guantanamo to the Pul-e-Charkhi prison near Kabul on November 2, 2007.^[70]