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Abdul Ghafar (Afghan mujahideen fighter)

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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.[1][2]

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[edit]

He is allegedly the same person who was identified as a mujahideen fighter during the Combatant Status Review Tribunal of a Guantanamo captive.[3]

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:[3]

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

Muhibullah denied knowing anyone named Abdul Ghafar.[3] 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[edit]

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.[4]
  • Accused of possessing a cell phone on April 3, 2003
  • Allegedly fled his home, and hid from US forces in a creek bed.[5]
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.[6][7] 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
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.[9]
  • A unit of several hundred Taliban soldiers occupied Musa Qala on February 2, 2007.[10] 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.


References[edit]

  1. Salahuddin Ahmed (1999). A Dictionary of Muslim Names, London: Hurst & Company.
  2. S. A. Rahman (2001). A Dictionary of Muslim Names, New Delhi: Goodword Books.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 [[[:Template:DoD detainees ARB]] Summarized transcripts (.pdf)], from Muhibullah's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 64-76
  4. [[[:Template:DoD detainees ARB]] Summarized transcripts (.pdf)], from Abdul Ghaffar'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 25-32
  5. [[[:Template:DoD detainees ARB]] Summarized transcript (.pdf)], from Abdul Ghaffar's Administrative Review Board hearing - page 13
  6. Gitmo Detainees Return To Terror, CBS News, October 17, 2004
  7. Cheney defends Guantanamo as essential to war: VP says that if freed, prisoners would return to battlefield, San Francisco Chronicle, June 14, 2005
  8. [[[:Template:DoD detainees ARB]] Summarized transcript (.pdf)], from Juma Din's Administrative Review Board hearing - page 261
  9. War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity: 1978-2001. (PDF) Afghan Justice Project. URL accessed on February 5, 2007.
  10. Ahmed Rashid. Taliban takeover of town could mark start of military offensive. Eurasianet.