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Abdul Razzak Hekmati (c. 1929 – Template:Death date) was a citizen of Wikipedia:Afghanistan, held in Wikipedia:extrajudicial detention in the Wikipedia:United States Wikipedia:Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Wikipedia:Cuba.^[1] His Guantanamo ISN was 942. Wikipedia:Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts estimate he was born in 1929, in Wikipedia:Kandahar, Afghanistan.

An American military statement says he died of Wikipedia:colorectal cancer on December 30, 2007.^[2][3][4][5]

Following Hekmati's death Wikipedia:Carlotta Gall, a long-time Wikipedia:New York Times correspondent in Afghanistan, and historian Wikipedia:Andy Worthington, author of Wikipedia:The Guantanamo Files, found they were able to confirm Hekmati's alibi.^[2]

Hekmati's medical care

[[Wikipedia:Image:Mark Buzby discusses Abdul Razzak Hekmati's medical care.jpg|thumb|JTF-GTMO Commandant Wikipedia:Mark Buzby discusses the death of Abdul Razzaq Hekmati with chief doctor Captain Wikipedia:Bruce Meneley.Template:Citation needed]] As of June 2009 six captives died while in Guantanamo. Hekmati however is the only captive who died of natural causes. In April 2008 the Wikipedia:Adam M. Robinson, the Wikipedia:United States Navy's Surgeon General, wrote that every captive over fifty years old had been offered a Wikipedia:colonoscopy to detect colon cancer.^[6] Robinson reported camp medical staff had performed 20 colonoscopies.

Name issues

Abdul Razzaq Hekmati was one of half a dozen captives in US custody American Wikipedia:intelligence analysts called some variation of "Abdul Razzak".

On all the official documents released as of February 2008 Abdul Razzaq Hekmati's name was spelled "Abdul Razzak". However Gall and Worthington found that during his entire stay in US custody American officials had been identifying him solely by his personal names. They found he was well-known, in Afghanistan, under his full name, "Abdul Razzaq Hekmati".^[2] Gall and Worthington wrote that he was widely known by the nickname "Baraso".

Combatant Status Review

Main article: Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Hekmati was among the 60% of prisoners who participated in the tribunal hearings.^[7] A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for the tribunal of each detainee. The memo for his hearing lists the following allegations:^[8][9]

a. The detainee is associated with al Qaida and the Taliban:

1. Detainee served as a Taliban driver beginning in 1992.
2. Detainee is an al Qaida facilitator and smuggler.
3. Detainee was a commander of a Taliban terrorist cell in Afghanistan.
4. Detainee conducted an escort mission for Usama bin Laden in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
5. Detainee provided goods and funding for Taliban terrorist cells in Afghanistan.
6. Detainee provided guidance in the terrorist training camp near Kandahar.

b. The detainee participated in military operations against the coalition.

1. Detainee fought against United States forces in Kabul.
2. Detainee provided weapons and explosives to a Taliban terrorist cell in Afghanistan.
3. Detainee was involved in assassination attempts against Afghani government officials.

The Department of Defense released a six page summarized transcript on March 3, 2006.

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Second annual Administrative Review Board hearing

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for his second annual Administrative Review Board on August 5, 2006.^[10]

The following primary factors favor continued detention

a. Commitment

1. The detianee said he was forced to serve the Taliban three months out of every year since they came to power in 1992.
2. The detainee was a driver and fought in the Russian jihad for a commander of approximately 800 to 1000 soldiers. The commander became a military commander in Afghanistan after the jihad.
3. A source stated that Taliban fighters go to the military commander's compound in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The fighters receive money, supplies and orders at the compound.

b. Training

1. A source stated that the detainee was involved in a terrorist training camp near Khotal-e-Morcha mountain pass outside of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
2. A source stated that the detainee was directly involved in assassination attempts. The source stated that the detainee also attempted to have other personnel participated in suicide missions. The detainee provided training on how to use explosive vests.

c. Connections/Associations

1. A source stated that the detainee was originally a freedom fighter against the Soviets, a member of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin has staged small attacks in its attempts to force United States troops to withdraw from Afghanistan, overthrow the Afghan Transitional Administration and establish a fundamentalist state. Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin has long-established ties with Usama bin Laden.
2. The Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin has staged small attacks in its attempt to force United States troops to withdraw from Afghanistan, overthrow the Afghan Transitional Administration and establish a fundamentalist state. Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin has long established ties with Usama bin Laden.
3. A source stated that the detainee was part of the main security escort for Usama bin Laden.
4. A source stated that the detainee was paid to smuggle 50 Arab family members out of Afghanist and into Zabul, Iran through Afghanistan's Nimroz Province.
5. A source stated that the detainee was high in the al Qaida hierarchy and acted as a smuggler and facilitator. The detainee received money and weapons from Syria. The source stated that al Qaida's operational leader provided weapons to the detainee.
6. The detainee provided details of weapons shipments and weapons smuggling routes of Jamiat Islami.
7. The Jamiat Ulema e Islami is a radical Sunni religious-political party best known for its anti-United States threats, vocal support of Usama bin Ladin and sponsorship of some 3,000 religious schools.
8. The detainee was identified as a senior leader of a 40-man unit for the Taliban in Afghanistan. A source stated that the unit receives money, weapons and support from al Qaida and continually plans to kill Americans.
9. A source stated that the detainee was the number two commander of the unit and also the Taliban Supreme Commander in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
10. The detainee stated that the 40-man unit's commander gave the detainee his satellite phone number so President Karzai could contact the 40-man unit's commander and order him to turn in the rest of his weapons if President Karzai desired it.
11. A source stated that the 40 man units' leaders stayed in a contact through satellite telephones.
12. The detainee was detained as a suspected member of a Taliban organization.

d. Other Relevant Data

1. The detainee helped an individual escapt from a Ministry of Intelligence Prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
2. The individual is an exiled Afghan commander.
3. In early 2004, the exiled Afghan commander was known to have distributed approximately 40,000 small arms of unknown origin to former mujahedin fighters and personal associates located in Herat Province, Afghanistan.
4. A source stated that the detainee received weapons shipments, plastic explosives, night-vision equipment, missiles, small arms and ammunition from Syria. The weapons come form Sytia to Zahedan, Iran and were smuggled into Afghanistan.
5. A source stated that military weapons were delivered to the detainee who aided in its distribution to a terrorist team. The source stated that the detainee also had a night vision and telescoping optical device to use during mission preparation and for surveillance on United States Forces.
6. A source stated that the detaioee was knowledgeable of an assassiation plot against President Karzai the day before it occurred.
7. On 2 November 2001, source indicated that senior Taliban officials were extremely concerned about stopping opposition leader Hamid Karzai. During conversation between the detainee and a senior Taliban leader, they discussed the fact that Karzai had escapted a Taliban attack.
8. A source stated that the detainee attempted to have two other individuals kill the Kandahar, Afghanistan Governor.
9. A source stated that in 2002, the detainee claimed that there were still suicide pilots in the United States who could carry out their missions.

The following primary factors favor release or transfer

a. The detainee claims he is not a Taliban member.

b. The detainee vehemently denies that he is currently associated with the Taliban.

c. The detainee states that the Taliban is a stupid organization.

d. An individual that was part of a 40-man team was under the command of Abdul Razaq Template:Sic.

e. The individual described Abdbul Razaq Template:Sic as having dark eyes, a full beard, and taller than himself. The individual claims this Abdul Razaq Template:Sic is not the same person as the detainee.

New York Times' profile

On February 5, 2008 Wikipedia:New York Times writer Wikipedia:Carlotta Gall and historian Wikipedia:Andy Worthington, author of Wikipedia:The Guantanamo Files, published a profile of Hekmati. ^[2] Gall and Worthington noted:

"... the Americans on his tribunal and review boards seemed unaware of how significant the prison break was, or how important were the men he had helped escape and whom he had asked to be called as witnesses."

Gall and Worthington described the prison break as such a "deep humiliation" for the Taliban; that they had offered a bounty of one million dollars.

Gall and Worthington had no trouble contacting the three Northern Alliance leaders he helped rescue. They pointed out that although Hekmati had requested the leaders as witnesses, he was told they were not reasonably available.

When Gall and Worthington contacted the leaders, they found that none of them had been invited to offer testimony on Hekmati's behalf. Furthermore, the leaders said they had been aware that Hekmati had been sent to Guantanamo, and had made efforts to get him released. Ismail Khan, Minister of Energy, asked Wikipedia:Afghan President Wikipedia:Hamid Karzai, and American Ambassador to Afghanistan, Wikipedia:Zalmay Khalilzad, for help getting Hekmati released. They quoted Zahir:

“We did try but it was not working. When they are sending someone to Guantánamo, they have their own rules.”

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