Haji Ghalib
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Haji Ghalib is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 987. Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate he was born in 1963, in Nangarhar, Afghanistan. Ghalib was repatriated on February 28, 2007.[2]
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Born | 1963 (age 60ā61) Nangarhar Province |
Citizenship | Afghanistan |
Detained at | Guantanamo |
ISN | 987 |
Charge(s) | no charge, extrajudicial detention |
Ghalib was sent to Guantanamo following anonymous denunciations.[3] He argued that he had been a loyal government official. When he was finally repatriated, the Afghan government reappointed him to senior security positions, where he became one of Afghanistan's most effective opponents to the central government's opponents.