Haji Faiz Mohammed
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Haji Faiz Mohammed ({{langx|ar|محمد حجي فز}}; born {{circa}} 1932) is an elderly Afghan national who was held in extrajudicial detention and interrogated by the United States military in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
{{cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf
| title=List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
| publisher=United States Department of Defense
| accessdate=2006-05-15
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{{cite news
|url = https://www.cbsnews.com/news/afghans-describe-life-inside-gitmo/
|title = Afghans Describe Life Inside Gitmo
|date = 2002-10-29
|author = Bootie Cosgrove-Mather
|publisher = CBS News
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080516070503/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/02/attack/main531326.shtml
|access-date = 2009-01-06
|archive-date = 2008-05-16
|url-status = live
}} Mohammed spent about eight months in Guantanamo and was repatriated on October 28, 2002.{{cite news|url=http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/657-haji-faiz-mohammed|title=Haji Faiz Mohammed – The Guantánamo Docket|work=The New York Times|accessdate=16 January 2010}}
Detention in Guantanamo
{{rquote|right|I don't know why the Americans arrested me. I told them I was innocent. I'm just an old man.|Haji Faiz Mohammed{{cite news | url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/afghans-describe-life-inside-gitmo/ | work=CBS News | title=Afghans Describe Life Inside Gitmo | date=December 2, 2002 | access-date=October 13, 2005 | archive-date=May 16, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516070503/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/02/attack/main531326.shtml | url-status=live }}}}
Mohammed was flown to the U.S. military detention camp in Guantanamo in 2002 after being swept up in a raid by troops in Afghanistan. An assessment written by the Joint Task Force Guantanamo says. "There is no reason on the record for detainee being transferred to Guantánamo Bay detention facility," {{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/25/guantanamo-files-children-old-men | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=James | last=Ball | title=Guantánamo Bay files: Children and senile old men among detainees | date=2011-04-25}}
Faiz was released in October 2002 after being held for eight months, and was put in the Medical Scientific Academy Hospital in Kabul.
Mohammed's age
Mohammed, who American intelligence analysts estimate was approximately 72 years old at the time, said the Americans had initially seized him during a hospital visit in Uruzgan.
He says he was blindfolded and bound, then flown to Kandahar in a helicopter.
Reports suggest that he bordered on senile and initially claimed that he was over a hundred years old. The New York Times said that he was "babbling at times like a child...struggled to complete sentences and strained to hear words that were shouted at him."{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/oct/30/guantanamo.afghanistan | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=David | last=Rohde | title=Low-risk prisoners freed from high-security hell | date=2002-10-30}}
See also
- Mohammed Sadiq elderly prisoner held at Guantanamo
- Nasrat Khan elderly prisoner held at Guantanamo
References
External links
- [https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12322925&method=full&siteid=50143 The oldest of the old: First 'hardcore' suspects freed from Camp Delta.. three Afghans, combined age 196] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040310171903/http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12322925&method=full&siteid=50143 |date=2004-03-10 }}, The Daily Mirror, October 30, 2002
- [https://www.theguardian.com/world/guantanamo-files/US9AF-000657DP Guantánamo detainee file: Haji Faiz Mohammed US9AF-000657DP]
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Category:Guantanamo detainees known to have been released
Category:Afghan extrajudicial prisoners of the United States