List of Guantanamo detainees who were previously Taliban prisoners
Background
The Taliban took control of Afghanistan and severely suppressed the opposition, as well as providing refuge for militant Muslims, including Osama bin Laden.

List of Guantanamo detainees who were previously Taliban prisoners

Section Title: Background
Table Section Text: The Taliban took control of Afghanistan and severely suppressed the opposition, as well as providing refuge for militant Muslims, including Osama bin Laden.

Ilkham Turdbyavich Batayev	Used as a kitchen slave by the Taliban.

Adil Uqla Hassan Al Nusayri

Abd Al Rahim Abdul Rassak Janko (Syria)	From Syria, he was jailed in Kandahar by the Taliban on suspicion of spying. He is being defended by the attorney Steve Sady from Portland, Oregon, who said his client had given "valuable testimony to U.S.

Jamal Udeen Al-Harith (UK)	Having gone to Pakistan for a religious retreat, he tried to leave by land when told it was dangerous and paid a driver to take him to Iran.

Siddeeq Ahmad Siddeeq Noor Turkistani (Saudi Arabia)	Turkistani said he was deported by Saudi Arabia to Afghanistan for drug trafficking. There he was imprisoned by the Taliban in Kandahar for four and a half years, on charges of being involved in a plot to kill al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

Airat Vakhitov (Russia)	Fled Russia for Tajikistan, in 1999, to avoid harassment by the Russian authorities; was forced by members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan to travel to Afghanistan.

Abdul Hakim Bukhary (Saudi Arabia)	According to the BBC, Bukhary, from Saudi Arabia, had been jailed by the Taliban for expressing approval of Ahmad Shah Massoud, a Northern Alliance leader assassinated on September 9, 2001.

Qari Hasan Ulla Peerzai

Arkan Mohammad Ghafil Al Karim (Iraq)	He deserted from the Iraqi Army and was jailed by the Taliban and tortured. He said that he was taken to Guantanamo so the Americans could learn about the Iraq Army before its invasion.

Rasul Kudayev (Russia)	In Afghanistan, he was imprisoned since 2000 by the Taliban and shot in a prison uprising. He was taken by the Americans to Guantanamo, where he claimed to have been "tortured and humiliated." Since his release and return to Russia, he has been arrested by Russian authorities and charged with "participating in a 2005 raid by Islamic militants in the North Caucasus city of Nalchik.	Rashid Awad Rashid Al Uwaydah

Amin Ullah

Abdul Matin

Hamidullah

Sentence(s)

Al-Harith was one of nine former Taliban prisoners.

final_sentence: Al-Harith was one of nine former Taliban prisoners.