Born in 1963 in Parwan province, north of Kabul, he was assessed on December 5, 2002, when it was stated that he was conscripted by the Taliban because he was unable to pay a bribe of five million Afghanis. He was sent to a fighting position in the mountains for 21 days, until, “having decided to surrender,” he and others walked to Bamiyan province where they were seized by Northern Alliance forces three days before the start of Ramadan in November 2001, and held for four months before being transferred to US custody. He was sent to Guantánamo on June 9, 2002, and the spurious reason for his transfer was “because of his general knowledge of Taliban conscription procedures and extortion activities.”

In its assessment, the Joint Task Force stated that it “consider[ed] the information obtained from and about him as not valuable or tactically exploitable,” and added, “Based on current information, detainee [645] is assessed as not affiliated with Al-Qaida or as being a Taliban leader. Moreover … the detainee has no further intelligence value to the United States and will not be seen for further intelligence purposes. [He] has not expressed thoughts of violence nor made threats toward the US or its allies during interrogations or in the course of his detention. Based on the above, detainee does not pose a future threat to the US or US interests.” As a result, Maj. Gen. Miller recommended that he be “considered for release or transfer to the control of another government.”