Ehsanullah

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Ehsanullah

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image_caption = | date_of_birth = Birth year and age|1973
place_of_birth = Sarwan Qala, Afghanistan
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date_of_release = September 2004
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citizenship =
detained_at = Kandahar
Bagram
Guantanamo
id_number = 523
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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status = Repatriated
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Ehsanullah is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf
title=List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=May 15 2006
accessdate=2007-09-29] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 523.

McClatchy News Service interview

On June 15 2008 the McClatchy News Service published a series of articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives.cite news
url=http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/
title=Guantanamo Inmate Database: Page 7
publisher=Miami Herald
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 15 2008
accessdate=2008-06-17
quote= ] cite news
url=http://services.mcclatchyinteractive.com/detainees?page=3
title=Guantanamo Inmate Database: Page 2
publisher=McClatchy News Service
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 15 2008
accessdate=2008-06-16
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fservices.mcclatchyinteractive.com%2Fdetainees%3Fpage%3D3&date=2008-06-18 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/611/story/491372.html
title=U.S. hasn't apologized to or compensated ex-detainees
publisher=Myrtle Beach Sun
author=Tom Lasseter
date=Wednesday June 18, 2008
accessdate=2008-06-18
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrtlebeachonline.com%2F611%2Fstory%2F491372.html&date=2008-06-18 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38771.html
title=Pentagon declined to answer questions about detainees
publisher=McClatchy News Service
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 15 2008
accessdate=2008-06-20
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcclatchydc.com%2Fhomepage%2Fstory%2F38771.html&date=2008-06-20 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38776.html
title=Documents undercut Pentagon's denial of routine abuse
publisher=McClatchy News Service
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 16 2008
accessdate=2008-06-20
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcclatchydc.com%2Fhomepage%2Fstory%2F38776.html&date=2008-06-20 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38887.html
title=Deck stacked against detainees in legal proceedings
publisher=McClatchy News Service
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 19 2008
accessdate=2008-06-20
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcclatchydc.com%2Fhomepage%2Fstory%2F38887.html&date=2008-06-20 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38775.html
title=U.S. abuse of detainees was routine at Afghanistan bases
publisher=McClatchy News Service
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 16 2008
accessdate=2008-06-20
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcclatchydc.com%2Fhomepage%2Fstory%2F38775.html&date=2008-06-20 mirror] ] Ehsanullahwas one of the former captives who had an article profiling him.cite news
url=http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/66
title=Guantanamo Inmate Database: Ehsanullah
publisher=Miami Herald
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 15 2008
accessdate=2008-06-17
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fservices.mcclatchyinteractive.com%2Fdetainees%2F66&date=2008-06-17 mirror] ]

Ehsanullahacknowledged having once served as a Taliban foot-soldier, but stated he was an involuntary conscript.He said he abandoned his post as soon as he learned that the Taliban government had collapsed, and was trying to make his way home, when he was captured by Northern Alliance soldiers.He said he and other captives, taken at the same time, were sold to the Americans for a bounty. quotation|"The commander told the Americans that he had arrested high-ranking Taliban and got $5,000 for each of us."

According to Ehsanullah: quotation|"There was no training. They said, 'This is the trigger; pull it.'"

Ehsanullah was interviewed by telephone because he feared local Taliban sympathizers learning he had met with a foreigner.

Ehsanullah was held for less than a year.

The McClatchy reporters found that local security officials had never heard of him.

Ehsanullah was held in both the Bagram Theater Internment Facility and the Kandahar detention facility, prior to being transferred to Guantanamo. He reported being physically abused in American custody in Afghanistan, and he reported witnessing an American GI throwing a Koran into a bucket of excrement.

Ehsanullah said conditions were better in Guantanamo, no one beat him, he was interrogated infrequently, and when he was::

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