Detainees held in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility


On January 16, 2010, the United States Department of Defense complied with a court order and made public a heavily redacted list of the detainees held in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility.
Detainees started to be held
in primitive, temporary quarters, in what was originally called the Bagram Collection Point, from late 2001.
Detainees were later moved to an indoor detention center until late 2009, when newly constructed facilities were opened.
The identity of most detainees held in Bagram remained classified until the publication of the first list in January 2010.
Dozens of the names on the list are identical to names of detainees who had been held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
It was reported that three of the detainees in Bagram had formerly been held in Guantanamo, because they had the same Internment Serial Numbers. They were: Gul Zaman, Khadan Kadri and Hafizullah Shabaz Khau.
While some Guantanamo detainees were sent directly to Guantanamo from CIA custody, most Guantanamo detainees spent some time in US Military custody at Bagram, or at the similar Kandahar detention facility. Close to one hundred detainees testified about their time in Bagram during one of their OARDEC proceedings, or told reporters about their stay after their release.
Several dozen individuals reported being held in Bagram prior to the preparation of the official list published in January 2010. A few individuals report being released from Bagram, who aren't on the official list because they arrived there are the official list was prepared.

Guantanamo detainees who reported spending time in Bagram

Guantanamo
ISN		NameNotes
762Abaidullah
307Abd Al Nasir Mohammed Abd Al Qadir Khantumani
  • Sent to Bagram after several days of beatings by Afghan soldiers in Gardez.
  • Eventually sent to Guantanamo.
    • 489Abd Al Rahim Abdul Rassak Janko
  • Passed directly from Taliban custody to American custody.
  • Taliban believed he was an American spy.
    • 686Abdel Ghalib Ahmad Hakim
  • Testified to his Combatant Status Review Tribunal that he had spent months in detention in Pakistani custody, and then in American custody, in Kandahar and Bagram, prior to being transferred to Cuba. He said none of his interrogators had asked him questions that implied they thought he was affiliated with Al Qaida until after he came to Cuba.
    • 1463Abdul Al Salam Al Hilal
  • Passed through Bagram after being held in the CIA's black sites, before being transferred to Guantanamo.
    • 963Abdul Bagi
  • Testified, to his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, that he learned, seven days after his capture, in Bagram, that he was accused of tossing a rifle down a well,
  • Would have arrived in Bagram on February 17, 2003.
  • Eventually transferred to Guantanamo.
    • 502Abdul Bin Mohammed Bin Abess Ourgy
    1032Abdul Ghaffar
    954Abdul Ghafour
    1007Abdul Halim Sadiqi
  • Alleged to have sent students from Pakistani madrassas to serve as fighters in Afghanistan.
    • Abdul Jabar
  • A 35-year-old taxi driver who testified he was held near Dilawar and experienced abuse.
    • 1002Abdul Matin
    874Abdul Nasir
    Abdul Razaq
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • 306Abdul Salam Zaeef
  • Former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan.
  • Reports abuse in Bagram.
  • Currently under house arrest.
    • Abdul Salaam
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • 753Abdul Zahir
    Abdur Rahim
  • One of the passengers in Dilawar's jitney taxi.
  • Testified to the same kind of abuse that killed Dilawar.
  • Eventually transferred to Guantanamo—but his name is missing from the official list of Guantanamo detainees.
    • Abdul Wahid
  • Beaten to death in Bagram on November 6, 2003.
    • 332Abdullah Al Tayabi
    Abdullah Shahab
    452Oybek Jamoldinivich Jabbarov
    Abu Yahia al-Libi
    940Adel Hassan Hamad
    Ahmaddullah
  • Captured with five other men from the village of Kirmati, near Gardez city in late May 2002. and his brother
    • 845Akhtar Mohammed
    Amanullah
  • Captured with five other men from the village of Kirmati, near Gardez city in late May 2002. and his brother
    • Amanullah
  • A veteran of struggle against Afghanistan's Soviet invaders, in the 1980s, captured in early 2004, who reports he never learned why he was apprehended.
  • Claims he was held for a year in solitary confinement in Bagram.
    • 948Anwar Khan
    152Asim Thahit Abdullah Al Khalaqi
  • A Yemeni who was in Afghanistan as a Tablighi Jamaat pilgrim and was trapped in Afghanistan when the borders were closed following 9-11.
    • 256Atag Ali Abdoh Al-Haj
    782Awal Gul
    817Richard Belmar
    975Bostan Karim
    BT421Dilawar
  • Beaten to death in Bagram on December 10, 2002.
    • 680Emad Abdalla Hassan
    888Esmatulla
    688Fahmi Abdullah Ahmed
    Fazal Ahmad
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • 1897Fazel Karim-
    987Ghalib
    516Ghanim Abdul Rahman Al Harbi
    Ghanum Gul
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • 1021Gul Chaman
    Gul Mohammed
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Gul Rehman
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • 907Habib Rahman
    Habibullah
  • Beaten to death in Bagram on December 4, 2002.
    • 1001Hafizullah Shabaz Khail
  • Spent five years in Guantanamo, was cleared for release in December 2007, and subsequently rearrested in September 2008.
  • His American lawyer believes he was rearrested because US military officials in Afghanistan failed to update their records to show he had been cleared for release.
    • Hameedullah
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Hakkim Shah
  • A 32-year-old farmer who testified he was held near Dilawar and experienced abuse.
    • Hamid Ullah
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • 1119Haji Hamidullah
    Hasan Balgaid
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • 940Hassan Adel Hussein
    94Ibrahim Daif Allah Neman Al Sehli
    Jan Baz Khan
  • A militia leader who captured and turned over Dilawar, Habibullah, Khandan Kadir. and half a dozen other detainees.
  • Had the security contract for Firebase Salerno. Turned over suspects following a rocket attack on December 1, 2002, only to fall under suspicion of being behind the attack himself.
  • The nephew and protégé of a powerful militia leader named Pacha Khan Zadran.
    • Jawed Ahmad
  • An Afghan journalist working as a cameraman for the Canadian CTV network who was accused of being in possession of video of members of the Taliban.
  • The American base commander confirmed that a review Board determined that he was an "unlawful enemy combatant".
    • 1095Jumma Jan
    586Karam Khamis Sayd Khamsan
    589Khalid Mahomoud Abdul Wahab Al Asmr
    831Khandan Kadir
  • A pharmacist who was hired by the new government of Afghanistan's to be Khowst's regional director of the anti-narcotics branch of its new Intelligence service.
  • Denounced and captured by Jan Baz, a local militia leader who was himself captured by the Americans, four months later.
  • Eventually transferred to Guantanamo.
    • Khoja Mohammad
  • Captured with five other men from the village of Kirmati, near Gardez city in late May 2002. and his brother
    • 660Lufti Bin Swei Lagha
    1052Mahbub Rahman
  • A teenage student. captured with, Azimullah, Mohammed Salim and Rahman Tulah, accused of helping guide fighters who launched a rocket attack on Firebase Salerno.
  • Eventually transferred to Guantanamo.
    • 519Mahrar Rafat Al Quwari
    Malik Abdual Rahim
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • 939Mammar Ameur
    558Moazzam Begg
    909Mohabet Khan
    333Mohamed Atiq Awayd Al Harbi
    Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah
    900Mohamed Jawad
    7Mohammad Fazil
    849Mohammed Nasim
    681Mohammed Mohammed Hassen
    1008Mohammed Mustafa Sohail
    Mohammad Naim
  • Captured with five other men from the village of Kirmati, near Gardez city in late May 2002. and his brother
    • 955Mohammed Quasam
    Mohammed Salim
  • Captured with Mahbub Rahman, Azimullah and Rahman Tulah.
  • Mahbub Rahman requested a statement from him, at his Tribunal. He was told that although he was still in US custody, in Bagram, his testimony was not reasonably available.
    • 532Mohammed Sharif
    Mohammed Yaqoub Akhounzada
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • 1004Mohammed Yacoub
    Mohibullah
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Mubibbullah Khan
  • A District Chief in Zabul Province who was apprehended in September 2005, accused of being a Taliban informant.
  • Lived out most of the Taliban's administration in exile in Pakistan.
    • Muhammed Dawood
  • David Hicks was also known as Muhammed Dawood.
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
  • An individual named Mohammed Dawood was among the 645 names listed on the only list of
    • Bagram capties to be published.
    839Musab Omar Ali Al Mudwani
    Maulvi Naeem
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • 967Naserullah
    1019Nasibullah
    Nazar Mohammed
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • 727Omar Deghayes
  • Has stated that Bagram was worse than Guantanamo.
    • Parkhudin
  • Testified before the inquiry into Dilawar's death that he was suspended from the ceiling for 8 to 10 days.
    • 591Qari Esmhatulla
    Qibullah
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Raheem Ullah
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • 835Rasool Shahwali Zair Mohammed Mohammed
  • An Afghan whose family had fled to Pakistan to escape the decades of warfare in Afghanistan. He and his brothers had been educated in Pakistan, and he had trained to become a medical technician. In response to Hamid Karzai's entreaties for educated expatriate Afghans to return he and his brother had returned and set up a medical clinic in their families traditional home. His brother Shahwali Zair Mohammed Shaheen Naqeebyllah was a doctor, and he ran the lab.
  • The first American officer commanding a small nearby outpost had relied on his brother for introductions to all the local elders, because he was an educated, Western-oriented man, who spoke English. Because his brother had introduced them, the local elders directed all of their requests to the Americans through him. So his brother started writing a series of notes to the local American officer.
  • When the first American officer was replaced, his brother continued to write these notes to his replacement—who regarded them as threats and arrested the two brothers.
    • Raz Mohammad
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Redha al-Najar
  • A Tunisian, captured at his home in Karachi in May 2005 who spent two years in the CIA's black sites prior to being sent to Bagram.
    • 945Said Amir Jan
    1035Sada Jan
    1056Said Mohammed
    1154Said Mohammed Ali Shah
    311Saiid Farhi
    Salih
    Samoud Khan
  • Three Guantanamo detainees testified that Samoud Khan had led the platoon-sized armed band they were captured with; most of their group escaped, but they were told that Samoud was still in Bagram.
    • Sardar Khan
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Sardar Mohammad
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Saud Memon
  • Alleged to have played a role in the kidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl.
  • Disappeared shortly after Pearl's murder, only to be left on the doorsteps of his family in April 2007.
  • Saud Memon's weight had dropped to 36 kilograms; he was unable to recognize his relatives; and died less than a month after his release.
  • On November 12, 2007 The Wall Street Journal reported that he had been held and interrogated in Bagram.
    • 914Shardar Khan
    944Sharifullah
    899Shawali Khan
    834Shahwali Zair Mohammed Shaheen Naqeebyllah
  • An Afghan whose family had fled to Pakistan to escape the decades of warfare in Afghanistan. He and his brothers had been educated in Pakistan, and he had worked his way through medical school. In response to Hamid Karzai's entreaties for educated expatriate Afghans to return he and his brother had returned and set up a medical clinic in their families traditional home. His brother Rasool Shahwali Zair Mohammed Mohammed was a trained medical technician, who ran the modern medical lab they set up in their clinic.
  • The first American officer commanding a small nearby outpost had relied on him for introductions to all the local elders, because he was an educated, Western-oriented man, who spoke English. Because he had introduced them, the local elders directed all of their requests to the Americans through him. So he started writing a series of notes to the local American officer.
  • When the first American officer was replaced, he continued to write these notes to his replacement—who regarded them as threats and arrested the brothers.
    • Sherbat
  • Captured with five other men from the village of Kirmati, near Gardez city in late May 2002. and his brother
    • 933Swar Khan
    902Taj Mohammed
    535Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed Al Sawah
    Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil
  • The Taliban's last Foreign Minister, released in the fall of 2003.
  • The BBC reports he sent an envoy to warn the USA a month prior to al Qaeda's attack on 9-11, and that he had argued for turning over Osama bin Laden in September 2001.
    • 550Walid Said Bin Said Zaid
    Haji Wazir
  • Captured in 2002, filed a writ of habeas corpus in 2006, still held in Bagram as of December 2008.
    • Haji Wazir
  • Held for ten months, and released in 2006.
    • 898Zakim Shah
  • A 20-year-old farmer who testified he was held near Dilawar and experienced abuse.
    • Zafir Khan
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Zalmay Shah-

    Individuals who reported being held in Bagram prior to the publication of the first official list

    NameNotes
    Abdul Jabar
    • A 35-year-old taxi driver who testified he was held near Dilawar and experienced abuse.
    Abdul Razaq
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Abdul Salaam
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Abdur Rahim
  • One of the passengers in Dilawar's jitney taxi.
  • Testified to the same kind of abuse that killed Dilawar.
  • Eventually transferred to Guantanamo—but his name is missing from the official list of Guantanamo detainees.
    • Abdul Wahid
  • Beaten to death in Bagram on November 6, 2003.
    • Abdullah Shahab
    Abu Yahia al-Libi
    Ahmaddullah
  • Captured with five other men from the village of Kirmati, near Gardez city in late May 2002. and his brother
    • Amanullah
  • Captured with five other men from the village of Kirmati, near Gardez city in late May 2002. and his brother
    • Amanullah
  • A veteran of struggle against Afghanistan's Soviet invaders, in the 1980s, captured in early 2004, who reports he never learned why he was apprehended.
  • Claims he was held for a year in solitary confinement in Bagram.
    • Dilawar
  • Beaten to death in Bagram on December 10, 2002.
  • A mugshot of Dilawar has been published
    • showing that he had the ISN 421.
    Fazal Ahmad
    • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    Ghanum Gul
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Gul Mohammed
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Gul Rehman
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Habibullah
  • Beaten to death in Bagram on December 4, 2002.
    • Hameedullah
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Hakkim Shah
  • A 32-year-old farmer who testified he was held near Dilawar and experienced abuse.
    • Hamid Ullah
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Hasan Balgaid
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Jan Baz Khan
  • A militia leader who captured and turned over Dilawar, Habibullah, Khandan Kadir. and half a dozen other detainees.
  • Had the security contract for Firebase Salerno. Turned over suspects following a rocket attack on December 1, 2002, only to fall under suspicion of being behind the attack himself.
  • The nephew and protégé of a powerful militia leader named Pacha Khan Zadran.
    • Jawed Ahmad
  • An Afghan journalist working as a cameraman for the Canadian CTV network who was accused of being in possession of video of members of the Taliban.
  • The American base commander confirmed that a review Board determined that he was an "unlawful enemy combatant".
    • Khoja Mohammad
  • Captured with five other men from the village of Kirmati, near Gardez city in late May 2002. and his brother
    • Malik Abdual Rahim
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah
    Mohammad Ayub
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Mohammed Ayub
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Mohammad Naim
  • Captured with five other men from the village of Kirmati, near Gardez city in late May 2002. and his brother
    • Mohammed Salim
  • Captured with Mahbub Rahman, Azimullah and Rahman Tulah.
  • Mahbub Rahman requested a statement from him, at his Tribunal. He was told that although he was still in US custody, in Bagram, his testimony was not reasonably available.
    • Mohammed Yaqoub Akhounzada
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Mohibullah
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Mubibbullah Khan
  • A District Chief in Zabul Province who was apprehended in September 2005, accused of being a Taliban informant.
  • Lived out most of the Taliban's administration in exile in Pakistan.
    • Muhammed Dawood
  • David Hicks was also known as Muhammed Dawood.
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Maulvi Naeem
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Nazar Mohammed
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Parkhudin
  • Testified before the inquiry into Dilawar's death that he was suspended from the ceiling for 8 to 10 days.
    • Qibullah
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Raheem Ullah
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Raymond Azar
  • Alleges abusive treatment by security officials.
    • Redha al-Najar
  • A Tunisian, captured at his home in Karachi in May 2005 who spent two years in the CIA's black sites prior to being sent to Bagram.
    • Salih
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Samoud Khan
  • Three Guantanamo detainees testified that Samoud Khan had led the platoon-sized armed band they were captured with, most of their group escaped, but they were told that Samoud was still in Bagram.
    • Sardar Khan
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Sardar Mohammad
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Saud Memon
  • Alleged to have played a role in the kidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl.
  • Disappeared shortly after Pearl's murder, only to be left on the doorsteps of his family in April 2007.
  • Saud Memon's weight had dropped to 36 kilograms; he was unable to recognize his relatives; and died less than a month after his release.
  • On November 12, 2007 The Wall Street Journal reported that he had been held and interrogated in Bagram.
    • Sherbat
  • Captured with five other men from the village of Kirmati, near Gardez city in late May 2002. and his brother
    • Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil
  • The Taliban's last Foreign Minister, released in the fall of 2003.
  • The BBC reports he sent an envoy to warn the USA a month prior to al Qaeda's attack on 9-11, and that he had argued for turning over Osama bin Laden in September 2001.
    • Haji Wazir
  • Captured in 2002, filed a writ of habeas corpus in 2006, still held in Bagram as of December 2008.
    • Haji Wazir
  • Held for ten months, and released in 2006.
    • Zafir Khan
  • One of the detainees whose amalgamated habeas corpus petition is known as Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld.
    • Zalmay Shah-

    The official list of Bagram detainees, as of September 22, 2009