Mahmud Sadik
{{Short description|Guantanamo detainee}}
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Mahmud Sadik (born 1952) is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States 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
| author=OARDEC
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| publisher=United States Department of Defense
| date=May 15, 2006
| accessdate=2007-09-29
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His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 512.
McClatchy News Service interview
On June 15, 2008, the McClatchy News Service published a series of articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives.
{{cite news |url=http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/ |title=Guantanamo Inmate Database: Page 3 |publisher=Miami Herald |author=Tom Lasseter |author-link=Tom Lasseter |date=June 15, 2008 |accessdate=2008-06-17 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304175010/http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/ |archivedate=March 4, 2009 }} [https://web.archive.org/web/20110714055906/http://services.mcclatchyinteractive.com/detainees?page=3 mirror]
Mohammed Saduq was one of the former captives who had an article profiling him.
{{cite news |url=http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/611/story/491372.html |title=U.S. hasn't apologized to or compensated ex-detainees |publisher=Myrtle Beach Sun |author=Tom Lasseter |author-link=Tom Lasseter |date=June 18, 2008 |accessdate=2008-06-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20080619010921/http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/611/story/491372.html |archivedate=June 19, 2008 }}
{{cite news |url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38771.html |title=Pentagon declined to answer questions about detainees |publisher=McClatchy News Service |author=Tom Lasseter |author-link=Tom Lasseter |date=June 15, 2008 |accessdate=2008-06-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080615214204/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38771.html |archivedate=June 15, 2008 }}
{{cite news |url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38776.html |title=Documents undercut Pentagon's denial of routine abuse |publisher=McClatchy News Service |author=Tom Lasseter |author-link=Tom Lasseter |date=June 16, 2008 |accessdate=2008-06-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080619001329/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38776.html |archivedate=June 19, 2008 }}
{{cite news |url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38887.html |title=Deck stacked against detainees in legal proceedings |publisher=McClatchy News Service |author=Tom Lasseter |author-link=Tom Lasseter |date=June 19, 2008 |accessdate=2008-06-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080620122327/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38887.html |archivedate=June 20, 2008 }}
{{cite news |url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38775.html |title=U.S. abuse of detainees was routine at Afghanistan bases |publisher=McClatchy News Service |author=Tom Lasseter |author-link=Tom Lasseter |date=June 16, 2008 |accessdate=2008-06-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080620001639/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38775.html |archivedate=June 20, 2008 }}
{{cite news |url=http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/31 |title=Guantanamo Inmate Database: Mohammed Saduq |publisher=Miami Herald |author=Tom Lasseter |author-link=Tom Lasseter |date=June 15, 2008 |accessdate=2008-06-17 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080622230945/http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/31 |archivedate=June 22, 2008 }} [https://web.archive.org/web/20080620003814/http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/7 mirror]
Mohammed Saduq reported he was captured in his home in Chaman, not on a battlefield.
His capture didn't surprise him because as the director of an orphanage, he was a civil servant appointed by the Taliban. The McClatchy article reported that the Tahia Maskan orphanage he directed:
...was, by most accounts, a place where children were malnourished and often beaten, another horrific corner of the Taliban world, but not an important post.
According to the first governor of Helmand Province appointed by Hamid Karzai, Shir Mohammed, stated Mohammed Saduq
...was not a military guy, he was not a minister, but he was someone the Taliban consulted with because he was seen as someone who understood politics.
Mohammed Saduq reported being beaten by guards in the Kandahar detention facility and the Bagram Theater internment facility, but not by his interrogators.
He described conditions in these camps as primitive.
Mohammed Saduq acknowledged to his interrogators that he had met Mullah Mohammed Omar, and much of his interrogations focussed around these brief meetings.
According to the McClatchy interviewer, Mohammed Saduq hopes the Taliban retake Afghanistan.
During the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan Mohammed Saduq commanded Abdul Salam Zaeef, who was later to rise be the Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan.
{{cite news |url=http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/664249.html |title=Former Taliban ambassador, free from Guantanamo, is under close watch |publisher=Kansas City Star |author=Tom Lasseter |author-link=Tom Lasseter |date=June 14, 2008 |accessdate=2008-06-17 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5YeclAZvd?url=http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/664249.html |archivedate=June 17, 2008 }}
Saduq said that when he re-encountered Zaeef in Guantanamo his health seemed frail.
{{quote|...very weak, physically, when I saw him at Guantanamo.
It is very difficult to know the inside of a man, and it's hard to say how it affected him — going from an ambassador to being in a cage — but he told me in Guantanamo that he was suffering badly.}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/the-guantanamo-files-website-extras-9-seized-in-pakistan-part-one/ The Guantánamo Files: Website Extras (9) – Seized in Pakistan (Part One)] Andy Worthington
- [http://www.mcclatchydc.com/guantanamo/ McClatchy News Service - video]
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Category:Guantanamo detainees known to have been released
Category:Afghan extrajudicial prisoners of the United States