page_title: Khairullah Khairkhwa
section_title: Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants
hierarchical_section_title: Khairullah Khairkhwa / Official status reviews / Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants
context_page_description: Khirullah Said Wali Khairkhwa is a Taliban official and former governor of Herat. He was held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba. He was released in late May 2014 in a prisoner exchange that involved Bowe Bergdahl and the Taliban five. Press reports have referred to him as "Mullah" and "Maulavi", two different honorifics for referring to senior Muslim clerics.
  Claims from analysts at Guantanamo that Khairkhwa was directly associated with Osama Bin Laden and Taliban Supreme Commander Mullah Muhammad Omar have been widely repeated. Kate Clark has criticized her fellow journalists for uncritically repeating U.S. claims that were largely based on unsubstantiated rumor and innuendo, or on confessions and denunciations coerced through torture and other extreme interrogation techniques.
context_section_description: Following the Supreme Court's ruling. the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants.
  Scholars at the Brookings Institution, led by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 200, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations:
  Khirullah Said Wali Khairkhwa  was listed as one of the captives who the military alleges were members of either al Qaeda or the Taliban and associated with the other group.
  Khirullah Said Wali Khairkhwa  was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... fought for the Taliban."
  Khirullah Said Wali Khairkhwa  was listed as one of the captives who was a member of the Taliban leadership.
  Khirullah Said Wali Khairkhwa  was listed as one of "36 [captives who] openly admit either membership or significant association with Al Qaeda, the Taliban, or some other group the government considers militarily hostile to the United States."
  Khirullah Said Wali Khairkhwa  was listed as one of the captives who had admitted "being [a] Taliban leader."
caption: Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a 3x5 meter trailer where the captive sat with his hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor.[20][21]
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