Aminullah Amin was held in

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in the

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s, in

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. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 504. Aminulla Amin was transferred to Pakistan on 17 September 2004.

Capture

Aminulla Amin's capture was reported on 20 December 2001. He was captured by Pakistani officials.

Role in the Taliban

The BBC called his capture the first of a senior Taliban official, and said he had been ''"...the border security chief for the southern half of the frontier."'' In

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1267 United Nations Security Council resolution 1267 was adopted unanimously on 15 October 1999. After recalling resolutions 1189 (1998), 1193 (1998) and 1214 (1998) on the situation in Afghanistan, the Council designated Osama bin Laden and associ ...

, Aminullah Amin was listed as Governor of Saripul Province, the 110th individual listed on a list of 400 individuals under sanctions from 1999.

Guantanamo detention

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(JTF-GTMO)

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analysts report that he was born in Chaman, Pakistan, and is a citizen of

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. JTF-GTMO analysts provided a date of birth or an estimated year of birth for almost all the captives. Aminullah Amin is one of the few captives whose age they did not speculate on. They spelled his name as Aminulla Amin. While Aminulla Amin was listed 759 men and boys on the ''"List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through 15 May 2006"'', he was not listed among the 558 men and boys on the ''"List of detainee who went through complete CSRT process"''. As a consequence of

Rasul v. Bush ''Rasul v. Bush'', 542 U.S. 466 (2004), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held that foreign nationals held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp could petition federal courts for writs of ''habeas corp ...

all 558 captives who remained in Guantanamo as of the fall of 2004 had a

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. There is no record of where Aminullah Amin has been transferred. The chronological list of captives' dates of departure from Guantanamo lists his date as of release as 17 September 2004—two months after the Combatant Status Review Tribunals had begun.

Literary works

References

External links

The Guantánamo Files: Website Extras (11) – The Last of the Afghans (Part One) and Six "Ghost Prisoners"
Andy Worthington {{DEFAULTSORT:Amin, Aminulla Guantanamo detainees known to have been released Living people Taliban leaders Pakistani extrajudicial prisoners of the United States Pashtun people People from Killa Abdullah District Year of birth missing (living people) Taliban governors Governors of Sar-e Pol Province