Mohammed Ismail

Mohammed Ismail is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. [http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006]

Ismail's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 930. [http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] cite web
url=http://ejp.icj.org/IMG/AppendixK.pdf
title=Juveniles in Guantanamo (.pdf)
date=May 2 2006
accessdate=2007-01-06
publisher=Reprieve] US intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1984 in Dourbani, Afghanistan.

There was a detainee named Muhammad Ismail Agha who was under sixteen when he was captured, who was detained in Camp Iguana, with two other teenage boys. He was released on January 28 2004. Agha, and the other two minors detained in Camp Iguana, are among the Guantanamo detainees missing from the official list.

Alleged to have "returned to the battlefield"

On May 14 2007 Department of Defense officials testified before the United States Congress that thirty former Guantanamo captives had "returned to the battlefield".cite news
url=http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/05/14/gitmo.inmates.reut/index.html
title=U.S. divulges new details on released Gitmo inmates
date=May 14 2007
publisher=CNN
accessdate=2007-05-19] The officials named six of those individuals, including Mohammed Ismail.cite news
url=http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1433833520070514
title=FACTBOX: Pentagon releases data on former Gitmo detainees
date=Monday May 14, 2007
publisher=Reuters
accessdate=2007-05-19]

"Reuters" reports that the officials asserted Mohammed Ismail was:

On July 16 2007 the Department of Defense issued a press release entitled: Ex-Guantanamo Detainees who have returned to the fight".cite news
url=http://www.defenselink.mil/news/d20070712formergtmo.pdf
title=Ex-Guantanamo Detainees who have returned to the fight
date=July 16 2007
publisher=Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-07-16] The Press release asserted: quotation
"Ismail was released from GTMO in 2004. During a press interview after his release, he described the Americans saying, "they gave me a good time in Cuba. They were very nice to me, giving me English lessons." He concluded his interview saying he would have to find work once he finished visiting all his relatives. He was recaptured four months later in May 2004, participating in an attack on US forces near Kandahar. At the time of his recapture, Ismail carried a letter confirming his status as a Taliban member in good standing."

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