Sha Mohammed Alikhel is a Pakistani who was held in extrajudicial detention in the

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s, in

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.US releases three Pakistanis jailed in Guantanamo
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'', 14 May 2003 On 8 May 2003, Muhammad was released at the same time as two other Pakistanis,

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and

Sahibzada Usman Ali According to the United States Department of Defense, there were five dozen Pakistani detainees in Guantanamo prior to May 15, 2006. The Guantanamo Bay detention camp was opened on January 11, 2002. In the summer of 2004, following the United ...

. He was 20 years old. Muhammad is a

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from Dir, in the

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. Only one other Pakistani detainee, elderly Mohammed Saghir, had been released prior to his release.Afghans Describe Life Inside Gitmo
'' CBS News'', 29 October 2002 The oldest of the old: First 'hardcore' suspects freed from Camp Delta.. three Afghans, combined age 196
'' The Mirror'', 30 October 2002 Shah reported that he felt despair, and made four suicide attempts during his time in Guantanamo, even though suicide was against the tenets of Islam.Inmates Released from Guantanamo Tell Tales of Despair
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'', 17 June 2003 When ''

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'' interviewed Muhammad, a year after his release, Muhammad reported ongoing after-effects from his incarceration: "The biggest damage is to my brain. My physical and mental state isn't right. I'm a changed person. I don't laugh or enjoy myself much." The Guardian reports that Muhammad's first suicide attempt followed a month of solitary confinement in a punishment cell. Muhammad was not confined there because he had broken any of the camp rules — rather the camp's expansion meant they had run short of ordinary cells. Muhammad reported having his suicidal impulses treated by involuntary injections with extremely powerful, long-lasting,

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. The Department of Defense released a list of all the captives who had been detained in Guantanamo, in military custody on 15 May 2006.List of prisoners (.pdf)
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'', 15 May 2006 Muhammad Shah's name is missing from that list.

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, writing in ''

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'', described traveling to Pakistan to interview Shah Muhammad and

Shabidzada Usman According to the United States Department of Defense, there were five dozen Pakistani detainees in Guantanamo prior to May 15, 2006. The Guantanamo Bay detention camp was opened on January 11, 2002. In the summer of 2004, following the United ...

, another young Pakistani who was among the first captives to be released. Bowden described being met by "warmth and elaborate courtesy" by the two released men, who he described as "uneducated, unworldly, and dirt poor". Bowden believed their accounts that they were rounded up and sold to the Americans by undiscriminating warlords, for a bounty, who didn't care if they were innocent. On an official list of the captives' departure dates from Guantanamo published in November 2008, his name was published as "Sha Mohammed Alikhel".

Claim that he was killed fighting U.S. forces

On 7 April 2009, the

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drafted a report, published on 27 May 2009, that listed a "Shah Mohammed" as having been "killed while fighting U.S. forces in Afghanistan". Despite the report, there are tens of thousands of "Shah Mohammeds" in Afghanistan.

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The Guantánamo Files: Website Extras (7) – From Sheberghan to Kandahar
Andy Worthington {{DEFAULTSORT:Alikhel, Sha Mohammed Pakistani extrajudicial prisoners of the United States Shah Muhammad Bakers Pashtun people 1981 births Living people

Claim that he was killed fighting U.S. forces

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