Mahmud Sadik (born 1952) is a citizen of

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who was held in

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in the

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Guantanamo Bay detention camp The Guantanamo Bay detention camp, also known as GTMO ( ), GITMO ( ), or simply Guantanamo Bay, is a United States military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB), on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It was established in 2002 by p ...

s, in

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. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 512.

McClatchy News Service interview

On June 15, 2008, the

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published a series of articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives.
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Mohammed Saduq was one of the former captives who had an article profiling him.
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Mohammed Saduq reported he was captured in his home in

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, not on a battlefield. His capture didn't surprise him because as the director of an orphanage, he was a civil servant appointed by the Taliban. The McClatchy article reported that the Tahia Maskan orphanage he directed:

...was, by most accounts, a place where children were malnourished and often beaten, another horrific corner of the Taliban world, but not an important post.

According to the first governor of

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appointed by

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, Shir Mohammed, stated Mohammed Saduq

...was not a military guy, he was not a minister, but he was someone the Taliban consulted with because he was seen as someone who understood politics.

Mohammed Saduq reported being beaten by guards in the

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and the

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, but not by his interrogators. He described conditions in these camps as primitive. Mohammed Saduq acknowledged to his interrogators that he had met

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Mohammed Omar, and much of his interrogations focussed around these brief meetings. According to the McClatchy interviewer, Mohammed Saduq hopes the Taliban retake Afghanistan. During the

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Mohammed Saduq commanded Abdul Salam Zaeef, who was later to rise be the

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's ambassador to

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. Saduq said that when he re-encountered Zaeef in Guantanamo his health seemed frail.

References

External links

The Guantánamo Files: Website Extras (9) – Seized in Pakistan (Part One)
Andy Worthington
McClatchy News Service - video
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