Wazir (unnumbered Guantanamo detainee)

Haji Wazir is held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.cite web
url=http://www.pegc.us/archive/In_re_Gitmo/order_RBW_20070131.pdf
title=Gherebi, et al. v. Bush
date=January 31, 2007
publisher=United States Department of Justice
author=Reggie B. Walton
accessdate=2007-05-19]

Habeas corpus submissions

Wazir is one of the sixteen Guantanamo captives whose amalgamated habeas corpus submissions were heard by
US District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton on January 31, 2007.cite web
url=http://www.pegc.us/archive/In_re_Gitmo/order_RBW_20070131.pdf
title=Gherebi, et al. v. Bush
date=January 31, 2007
publisher=United States Department of Justice
author=Reggie B. Walton
accessdate=May 19
accessyear=2007]

Identity

Wazir is known to be held in Guantanamo because he is named in Gherebi v. Bush.

Wazir is notable because even though he is clearly in detention in Guantanamo his name is missing from the official lists the DoD has published, at least by that spelling. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", April 20, 2006] [http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15, 2006]

The official lists the DoD published name several individuals with similar names:
*Captive 631 is listed as Padsha Wazir. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", April 20, 2006] [http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15, 2006]
*Captive 677 is listed as Wazir Zalim Ghul.
*Captive 976 is listed as Abdullah Wazir.
*Captive 996 is listed as Haji Mohammed Wazir.

References