Tarek Dergoul

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Tarek Dergoul

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place_of_birth = Mile End, United Kingdom | date_of_arrest =
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citizenship = | detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 534
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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status = Repatriated in the summer of 2004
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Tarek Dergoul is a citizen of the United Kingdom 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 534.

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 1
publisher=Miami Herald
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%3D1&date=2008-06-16 mirror] ] Tarek Dergoulwas one of thee former captives who had an article profiling him.cite news
url=http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/7
title=Guantanamo Inmate Database: Tarek Dergoul
publisher=Miami Herald
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%2F33&date=2008-06-17 mirror] ]

Tarek Dergoul acknowledged traveling to Afghanistan following the al Qaeda's attacks of September 11, 2001.He said he regarded the flight of refugees as a business opportunity. He and some other associates thought they could buy property from fleeing refugees at bargain prices, and then re-sell them when order was restored.However, he said, his companions were killed, and he was injured, when a shell landed in a villa they were about to buy.

Tarek Dergoul told his McClatchy interviewer he was buried in the rubble, and woke in hospital, to find himself under an armed guard. His left arm was amputated. After some time in Afghan custody he was sold to the Americans for a $5000 bounty, and transferred to the Bagram Theater internment facility.

Tarek Dergoul reported that when he arrived in Bagram medical treatment was withheld from him, and then, when a doctor oversaw the amputation of one of his toes, pain medication was withheld from him, so that he would still be able to feel pain, when he was next interrogated.

Tarek Dergoul reports that he only became religious during his detention.

Tarek Dergoul was repatriated to the United Kingdom in 2004.He stated that due to his wounds he has not been able to work.

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