- Asif Iqbal (Guantanamo detainee 87)
"There are other individuals named
Asif Iqbal -- see the disambiguation page.Asif Iqbal (bornApril 24 1981 ) is a British citizen who was held, inextrajudicial detention , as a terror suspect in theUnited States Guantanamo Bay detainment camp s, inCuba .Background
Iqbal's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 87. The Department of Defense reports that he was born on April 24, 1981, in
West Bromwich , United Kingdom. Iqbal and four other Britons were released onMarch 9 2004 . [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3089395.stm "Five of nine Britons released from Guantanamo Bay.] " "BBC ". March 9, 2004.] Iqbal had traveled with, was captured with, and was released with two friends,Ruhal Ahmed andShafiq Rasul , from his home town ofTipton ,United Kingdom .Report allegations
The appointment of General Geoffrey Miller coincided with the alleged introduction of new, harsher, treatment, including
short shackling and the forced shaving off of beards.In the end, the abusive interrogation lead the three to falsely confess to being the three previously unidentified faces in a video that showed a meeting between
Osama bin Laden andMohammed Atta , although Rasul was in the UK during the time period when the video was created. [ [http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/aug2004/guan-a06.shtml Britons release devastating account of torture and abuse by US forces at Guantanamo ] ]The 2006
film ,The Road to Guantánamo is adocu-drama depicting the story of their detention.References
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Tipton Three External links
*cite news
url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1388398,00.html
title=Health fears for 'torture victims'
author=Vikram Dodd ,Tania Branigan
date=WednesdayJanuary 12 ,2005
publisher=The Guardian
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