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Reading list: Profiles of Guantanamo detainees - I

A reading list -- in progress - of profiles of Guantanamo detainees

Saad Iqbal Madni

Madni was the last Pakistani detainee to have been released from Guantanamo

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-12566027

www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/world/asia/06iqbal.html?_r=1&hp

Muhammad Sagheer

Sagheer is described in his leaked assessment file as a 'farmer and missionary' who was arrested in Kunduz - on his first trip outside the country. 

https://www.oneindia.com/2006/09/11/pakistani-says-life-in-ruins-after-guantanamo-jail-1157963779.html

Lakhdar Boumedine, who spent seven years in detention

“RECRUITERS typically scan his résumé with an air of approval, he said, until noting that it ends in 2001. He tells them that his is a “particular case,” that he spent time in prison. He avoids the word “Guantánamo,” he said, as it often stirs more fear than sympathy.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/26/world/europe/lakhdar-boumediene-starts-anew-in-france-after-years-at-guantanamo.html

Omar Khadr

Khadr was arrested when he was 15 years old, and released to Canada in 2012

 http://projects.thestar.com/omar-khadr-in-his-own-words/index.html

Mohammad Jawad

Jawad was a teenager when he was arrested in Afghanistan at the site of a grenade explosion.

https://www.gq.com/story/boy-from-guantanamo?printable=true