Who is Mullah Abdul Kayum Sakir?
Mullah Abdul Kayum Sakir is the name of a citizen of Afghanistan the BBC News reported had been held in extrajudicial detention in the United State’s Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba, only to assume a senior leadership position with the Taliban, in Pakistan, upon his release. The BBC reports British officials told them “Abdul Kayum Sakir” was repatriated to Afghan custody in the Spring of 2008. Five Afghans were repatriated on April 30, 2008, but none of their names comes close to “Abdul Kayum Sakir”. “Abdul Kayum Sakir” does not match the name of any of the captives on the Department of Defense’s official list of captives’ names. The BBC reports that Abdul Kayum Sakir played a leadership role in planning attacks on NATO forces; that he “operates with impunity from Quetta, Pakistan; that he was briefly imprisoned near Kabul, after his repatriation.
