Nasser Gul Ghaman

Nasser Gul Ghaman
Detained at	Guantanamo
Alternate name	Nasser Nijer Naser al Mutairi, Nasir Najr Nasir Balud Al Mutayri, Nazargul Chaman
ISN	1037
Charge(s)	No charge
Status	Released

Nasser Gul Ghaman is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba.^[1] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 1037. American intelligence analysts estimate the Chaman was born in 1980, in Manikhel, Afghanistan. Nasser Gul Ghaman was repatriated without ever been charged on February 28, 2007.^[2]

Press reports

Canadian journalist, and former special assistant to US President George W. Bush, David Frum, published an article based on his own reading of the transcripts from the Combatant Status Review Tribunals, on November 11, 2006.^[3] It was Frum who coined the term "Axis of evil" for use in a speech he wrote for Bush. Chaman's transcript was one of the nine Frum briefly summarized. His comment on Chaman was:

"One detainee was apprehended in possession of a military identity card that named him as a member of an especially vicious Taliban militia. He explained that it was not his own card. It belonged to a friend who had asked him to hold it for him."

Frum came to the conclusion that all nine of the men whose transcript he summarized had obviously lied.^[3] He did not, however, state how he came to the conclusion they lied. His article concluded with the comment:

"But what’s the excuse of those in the West who succumb so easily to the deceptions of terrorists who cannot invent even half-way plausible lies?"

References

1. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
2. ^ "Nasser Gul Ghaman – The Guantánamo Docket". The New York Times (The New York Times Company). http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/1037-nasser-gul-ghaman. Retrieved 12 January 2010. 
3. ^ ^{a b} David Frum (November 11, 2006). "Gitmo Annotated". National Review. http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTQxMWVkMjJlNWZiMmE3ZmRlYTM5MDU4ZWFlOTQxOGY=. Retrieved 2007-04-23. 

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Name	Ghaman, Nasser Gul
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Date of birth	1980
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