Mohammad Nabi Omari
Mawlawi Mohammad Nabi Omari | |
|---|---|
 Nabi Omari at a conference | |
| First Deputy Minister for Interior Affairs | |
| Assumed office 6 October 2022 | |
| President | Hibatullah Akhundzada |
| Preceded by | Mohmand Katawazaii |
| Governor of Khost Province | |
| Assumed office 24 August 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Mohmand Katawazai |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1968 (age 56–57)[1] Khost Province, Afghanistan |
| Profession | politician |
Mawlawi Mohammad Nabi Omari is an Afghan politician serving as First Deputy Minister for Interior Affairs[2] under the internationally unrecognized Taliban regime since 6 October 2022.[3] He was also appointed Acting Governor of Khost Province in late August 2021.[4] Omari was held for nearly twelve years in extrajudicial detention at the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[5] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 832. American intelligence analysts estimate that he was born in 1968, in Khost, Afghanistan. He arrived at the Guantanamo detention camps on October 28, 2002.[6]
According to scholars at the Brookings Institution, led by Benjamin Wittes, Omari was being held on allegations that he was affiliated with al-Qaeda and the Taliban and that he was part of the Taliban leadership.[7] During his Combatant Status Review Tribunal Omari acknowledged he had worked for the Taliban, but claimed that was prior to the September 11 attacks.[8] He said that after the US invasion, he had been a loyal supporter of the Hamid Karzai government, and that he had been a covert operative for a US intelligence officer he knew only as "Mark".[citation needed] Omari was one of the 71 individuals deemed too innocent to charge, but too dangerous to release by the Joint Review Task Force under the Obama administration.[9]
He was transported from Guantanamo Bay to Qatar on June 1, 2014.[10] Omari and four other men known as the Taliban five were exchanged for captured U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl. The men were held by the Qataris in a form of house arrest. The swap was brokered by the Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar. Omari and the others were required to stay in Qatar for a year as a condition of their release.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ JTF- GTMO Detainee Assessment Department of Defense
- ^ "Charge d'Affaires Dr.Zhao Haihan Meets with Mohammad Nabi Omari, First Deputy Minister of Interior Affairs of Afghanistan". af.china-embassy.gov.cn. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
- ^ "Taliban names former Guantanamo detainee deputy interior minister | FDD's Long War Journal". www.longwarjournal.org. 2022-10-11. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
- ^ "Taliban appoints former Guantanamo Bay detainee released under Obama to leadership post in Afghanistan". news.yahoo.com. Archived from the original on 2021-09-21. Retrieved 2021-09-19.
- ^
OARDEC. "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2006-05-15.
Works related to List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006 at Wikisource
- ^ "Measurements of Heights and Weights of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (ordered and consolidated version)" (PDF). Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas, from DoD data. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-13. Retrieved 2009-12-21.
- ^ Benjamin Wittes; Zaathira Wyne (2008-12-16). "The Current Detainee Population of Guantánamo: An Empirical Study" (PDF). The Brookings Institution. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-05-19. Retrieved 2010-02-16.
- ^ "Summarized Unsworn Detainee Statement: ISN 832" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. 2004. pp. 37–41. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2006-07-22. Retrieved 2013-08-14.
- ^ "71 Guantanamo Detainees Determined Eligible to Receive a Periodic Review Board as of April 19, 2013". Joint Review Task Force. 2013-04-09. Archived from the original on 2015-05-19. Retrieved 2015-05-18.
- ^
Rod Nordland (2015-05-31). "For Swapped Taliban Prisoners From Guantánamo Bay, Few Doors to Exit Qatar". New York Times. Kabul. p. A1.
The fifth, lesser-known figure, is Mohammad Nabi Omari, a suspected associate of the Haqqani network, allies of the Taliban who supply the bulk of the insurgents' suicide bombers, mostly young men indoctrinated at madrasas in Pakistan.
- ^ "American soldier held captive in Afghanistan is now free". MSNBC. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
