Mohammed Hagi Fiz

Mohammed Hagi Fiz ( _ar. محمد حجي فز) is an Afghani man who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantánamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/02/attack/main531326.shtml Afghans Describe Life Inside Gitmo] , "CBS News", October 29, 2002]

Not on the official list

On March 3 2006 the Department of Defense exhausted all its legal appeals and was forced to start to comply with a court order from US District Court Justice Jed Rakoff to release the identities of the Guantanamo detainees. On May 15 2006 the DoD released a list of 759 names, which they claimed was a full list of names of all the detainees who had been held, in military custody, in Cuba. [http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] Fiz's name, like those of several other of the first detainees to be released, is not on the full official list.

Fiz's age

Fiz, who American intelligence analysts estimate was approximately 72 years old at the time, said the Americans had initially seized him during a hospital visit in Uruzgan. [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/02/attack/main531326.shtml Afghans Describe Life Inside Gitmo] , "CBS News", October 29, 2002] He says he was blindfolded and bound, then flown to Kandahar in a helicopter.

Reports suggest that he bordered on senile and initially claimed that he was over a hundred years old. Authorities initially listed an "Al Qaeda card" being found on his person, though it turned out to be a bus pass. [http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/10-31-2002-29337.asp] The New York Times said that he was "babbling at times like a child...struggled to complete sentences and strained to hear words that were shouted at him."

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ee also

*Mohammed Sadiq - another elderly prisoner held at Guantanamo

References

External links

* [http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12322925&method=full&siteid=50143 The oldest of the old: First 'hardcore' suspects freed from Camp Delta.. three Afghans, combined age 196] , "The Daily Mirror", October 30, 2002
* [http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=4839&sectionID=1 Camp Delta] , "ZNet", January 14, 2004
* [http://www.trentarthur.info/archives/000205.html Stories from Guantanamo Bay] , "Arthur", November 15, 2004