Abdul Ghafar (Afghan mujahideen fighter)

There are multiple individuals named Abdul Ghaffar

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Abdul Ghaffar (Arabic: عبد الغفار) and Abdul Ghafoor (Arabic: عبد الغفور) are two related male Muslim given names, and, in modern usage, surnames. They are built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and either Ghaffar or Ghafoor respectively. Both names mean "servant of the All-forgiving", Al-Ghaffār and Al-Ghafūr being two of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names.

Abdul Ghafar is a common name in the Arabic-speaking world, and the same name as six persons around whom many allegations and speculations have been made, including whether these persons are who they are said to be and whether three of them exist at all.

He is allegedly a citizen of Afghanistan.

Abdul Ghaffar #1

He is allegedly the same person who was identified as a mujahideen fighter during the Combatant Status Review Tribunal of a Guantanamo captive.

It has been claimed that he is the same person as another alleged person, Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar, who is supposed to have been a Taliban leader who escaped by feigning ignorance.

Guantanamo captive Muhibullah faced the allegation, during his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, that:

• "The Detainee acquired a rifle from a Mujahideen fighter, Abdul Ghafar."

Muhibullah denied knowing anyone named Abdul Ghafar. He acknowledged being conscripted into the Taliban. He acknowledged being assigned to be a security guard. He acknowledged handling a rifle, when it was his sentry watch. But he said he and the other sentries had just one rifle to share among themselves, and that he never fired this weapon.

The allegation that Muhibullah received a rifle from Abdul Ghafar is notable because the files of US counterterrorism analysts contain records of several individuals named Abdul Ghafar, or some variation thereof. But the intelligence analysts who prepared the allegations failed to identify, in the unclassified summary of evidence, from which individual named Abdul Ghafar, Muhibullah was accused of accepting a rifle.

Five other individuals with the same or similar name

id num	name	alleged affiliation	notes
1032	Abdul Ghaffar	Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin	Accused of assisting in the killing of three Red Cross workers on March 27, 2003. Accused of possessing a cell phone on April 3, 2003 Allegedly fled his home, and hid from US forces in a creek bed.
unknown	Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar	Taliban	US officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, claim a Taliban leader named Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar tricked his interrogators into thinking he was a simple, harmless, illiterate, monoglot villager, who could safely be released. Then, according to Cheney, he "returned to the battlefield", and was killed in action on September 26, 2004.
954	Abdul Ghafour	Taliban
none	Haji Abdul Ghafour (deleted from Wikipedia)	Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin	During Guantanamo captive Juma Din's Administrative Review Board hearing he was alleged to have been a bodyguard for a senior Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin leader named Haji Abdul Ghafour.
none	Mullah Abdul Ghafour	Taliban	A Taliban leader named Mullah Abdul Ghafour is alleged to have been one of the three senior Taliban leaders responsible for a massacre of several hundred civilians when Taliban forces reoccupied Yakaolong, on January 7, 2001, and for several days thereafter. A unit of several hundred Taliban soldiers occupied Musa Qala on February 2, 2007. They were said to have been led by a Taliban leader named Mullah Abdul Ghafour. When American General Dan McNeill took over NATO forces from British General David J. Richards he ordered an air strike that, reportedly, killed Mullah Abdul Ghafour on February 4, 2007.