Abdul Majid Khan (detainee)
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On January 15, 2010, the US Department of Defense complied with a court order and published a list of Captives held in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility that included the name
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Abdul Majid Khan. According to historian
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, author of ''
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'', he is alleged to be an improvised explosive device facilitator captured in
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. He was reported to have ''"planned and conducted IED attacks against Coalition forces, harbored and facilitated suicide bombers and raised finances for Taliban operations.”''
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Majid Khan (detainee) Majid Shoukat Khan (Urdu: ماجد شوکت خان, born February 28, 1980) is a Pakistani who was the only known legal resident of the United States held in the Guantanamo Bay Detainment Camp. He was a " high value detainee" and was tortured by ...
was born 1980. This guy was born 1953.


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