Munir Naseer is a citizen of Pakistan who was held in

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in the United States's

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s, in

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. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 85. He was repatriated on November 30, 2003.

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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Munir Naseer was one of the former captives who had an article profiling him. At the time of his interview Munir Naseer was working in a call center as a Mortgage Broker. According to his McClatchy interviewer, Munir Naseer chose a

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for their interview, wore American style clothes and baseball cap, and spoke English with a

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accent. However, according to his interviewer, Munir willingly acknowledged he astonished everyone who knew him by choosing to travel to Afghanistan to engage in jihad. The interviewer reports he traveled to Afghanistan in "late 2001"—without specifying if he traveled before or after

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's attack on the USA on

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, or whether it was before or after the USA started to retaliate in October 2001. He described being captured near

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when local Afghans claimed they were associated with the Taliban, and invited his group to join them for dinner, only to capture them and hand them over the a local Northern Alliance leader, who shipped them to the prison at

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. He described being confined to an by cell with thirty-five other men. He described being ill with diarrhea when confined with the other men. He stated he was not beaten there, but he said guards arbitrarily removed captives and beat them, and beatings so severe they killed the captives were routine. After two and half months, he was transferred to the

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, when he acknowledged being able to speak English. He described being beaten there too. He said almost all the captives at Bagram were, like him, sold to the Americans for a bounty. Munir Naseer described his interrogators in Guantanamo as lacking imagination, because they asked him the same questions, over and over again. His interrogators in Guantanamo weren't brutal, like his interrogators in Bagram. However, he described witnessing other captives go mad.

Medical records

On March 16, 2007, the

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published height and weight records for all but ten of the captives held in Guantanamo. Munir Naseem is one of ten men whose height and weight records were withheld. The Department of Defense has not offered an explanation for why no records for those ten men were published.

McClatchy News Service interview

Medical records

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