Abdullah Mehsud Abdullah Mehsud ( Maseed ) ( ) ( ) ( 1974 – July 24 , 2007 ) was a member of the Mahsud tribe in South Waziristan , and a Pashtun militant commander who killed himself with a hand grenade after security forces raided his dwelling in Zhob , Balochistan , Pakistan . American authorities later claimed that he had originally been a prisoner in the Guantanamo bay detainment camps , who was judicially released and subsequently " returned to the battlefield " . Early life . Abdullah Maseed ( Noor Alam Maseed ) was born in early 1974 in Nano village of South Waziristan , and was a member of the Maseed clan Saleemi Khel in South Waziristan . Abdullah Maseed fought against the Northern Alliance and lost a leg to a landmine in 1996 . Capture . During the opening days of Operation Enduring Freedom , Maseed fought against U . S . and Northern Alliance forces in Afghanistan . In December 2001 , he surrendered to the Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum in the Battle of Kunduz . He was handed over to the U . S . and spent 25 months in Guantanamo Bay detention camp , where he was fitted with a prosthetic limb . He was released by the U . S . and returned to South Waziristan . Return to the battlefield . After his release , Maseed immediately begin rebuilding his Taliban cadre . He commanded a force of up to 5 , 000 Taliban fighters . He then began initiating attacks on coalition soldiers in Afghanistan . In Waziristan , Maseed was believed to be behind the kidnapping of two Chinese engineers from the building of the Gomal Zam Dam , which left one hostage dead during a botched rescue attempt . He was also alleged to have been behind an attack on Pakistan ' s Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Sherpao that killed 31 people . In March 2005 a Department of Defense document claimed : In 2005 , Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf announced that Maseed had been killed by ISI forces , only to later retract the statement . Maseed was one of the first three former Guantanamo captives the Bush Presidency reported had returned to the battlefield . As of July 2007 spokesmen reported that over thirty captives had returned to the battlefield , or associated with terrorists , after their release . As of July 2007 the spokesmen had named seven of those individuals . Promise to never surrender . " Sikh Spectrum " reports that , during a telephone interview in 2004 , Abdullah Maseed promised to never surrender . Death . On 24 July 2007 , Maseed was at a house with other militants in Zhob , Balochistan . A team of law enforcement agencies conducted a raid on the house where he was staying . Maseed killed himself by detonating a hand grenade . During the raid , several other militants were killed , Abdul Rahman Maseed and Muhammad Azam , were captured along with a local Taliban leader . Relationship with Baitullah Maseed . Abdullah Maseed has been described as a leader of Baitullah Maseed , a tribal leader of the Waziri Maseedtribe . Other sources merely assert that they were clansmen , or associates . " Islam Online " reports that Baitullah suspected that Abdullah was a double agent . Defense Intelligence Agency claims he " returned to terrorism " . The Defense Intelligence Agency asserted Abdullah Maseed had " returned to terrorism " . The DIA reported :