Solaiman Dur Mohammed Shah

Solaiman Dur Mohammed Shah is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment 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 119;American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1977, in Panjwaee, Afghanistan
Panjwaee, Afghanistan.

Identity

The "Washington Post" reported that a captive named Sulaiman Shah was one of eighteen men repatriated to Afghanistan on March 22 2003, and released with a certificate of innocence by Afghan authorities on March 26 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]

The name Sulaiman Shah is not listed on the official list of all Guantanamo captives that the Department of Defense released on May 15 2006. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/d20060515%20list.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006]

Sulaiman Shah, and the other released captives, were given a one set of western clothes, including running shoes, and a knapsack to hold their medical records.. Most of the men needed to call on charity in order to travel home.

Sulaiman Shah, who described himself as a "businessman", said he was captured for no reason.He said he was generally treated well, but added: "I was in such a small [cell] and couldn't go outside for many days, My toilet was next to my bed, and it was a very bad way to live."

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