Said Abasin

Said Abasin is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. [http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] His Guantanamo detainee ID number is 671.American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1982, in Khan o Khel sic, Afghanistan.

Release

Said Abasin was one of eighteen Guantanamo captives repatriated to Afghanistan on March 22 2003.cite news
url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A29276-2003Mar25&notFound=true
title=Returning Afghans Talk of Guantanamo: Out of Legal Limbo, Some Tell of Mistreatment
publisher=Washington Post
date=March 26, 2003
accessdate=2007-02-27] cite news
url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-03/26/content_800882.htm
title=Innocent Afghan wants US compensation for Guantanamo detention
publisher=Xinhua News
date=March 26, 2003
accessdate=2007-02-27] All eighteen men were released by Afghan authorities four days later.

Abasin was the owner of a jitney taxi, captured when he was driving two passengers from Kabul to Khost.According to "Xinhua" Abasin was issued a "certificate of innocence" by the Afghanistan Ministry of the Interior. "Xinhua" quoted Abasin:
* "It was a nightmare for me, I lost everything, my car, my work and my status in the society."
* "I have no relations with the Taliban, I even hate them, I don't know for what reason I was kept in prison for so long time,"

According to the "Washington Post" Abasin's father was "an airline official", who lobbied for his son's release.According to the "New York Times", Abasin's father is
Said Roshan, the director of management administration at the Afghanistan's Ariana Airlines.cite news
title=U.S. Returns 18 Guantánamo Detainees to Afghanistan
author=Carlotta Gall
url=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/international/asia/24CND-AFGH.html?ex=1172725200&en=b13081d61c2d2e60&ei=5070
publisher=New York Times
date=March 24 2003
accessdate=2007-02-27]

The "New York Times" said Abasin was captured near Gardez, the capital of the Province of Paktia.The article quoted Taj Mohammed Wardak Taj Mohammad Wardak, who was then Governor of Paktia, that Abasin's arrest was a mistake.

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