User:Geo Swan/Bismullah (Guantanamo ID 968)

An article on Bismullah (Guantanamo ID 968) was deleted following Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mohammed Nasim (Guantanamo captive 849). This was, in my opinion, a flawed nomination, and a flawed closure.

On this pages I am going to list some references to support Bismullah's notability. Geo Swan (talk) 00:46, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

• "Lawyers for Bismullah, 29, presented sworn statements from officials of the American-supported Afghanistan government of Hamid Karzai that indicated Bismullah had been named as a terrorist by collaborators of the Taliban who wanted to take over his position as a provincial official. In fact, after Bismullah was shipped to Guantánamo, a local official said in a sworn statement, one of his accusers stole his car and drove it for two years.

• "The Bush administration’s Guantanamo system of detainment and military tribunals is under scrutiny in two converging federal cases - Boumediene v. Bush (already in front of the Supreme Court) and Bismullah v. Gates (now under emergency appeal in a federal court). The Bush administration’s emergency appeal seeks to stop a lower-court decision ordering the government to release to defendants information used to determine their designations as enemy combatants. Experts say that this case complicates Boumediene v. Bush, which challenges the government’s right to deny habeas corpus petitions to detainees facing indefinite confinement. (New York Times)"

• "Thus ended for two completely different men, one part of life that they had joined together in a bizarre way: George W. Bush for his term as 43rd President of the United States - and for the Afghan provincial officials Haji Bismullah captivity in Guantanamo."

• "In the last three months, courts have ruled that 24 detainees have been wrongfully held. An Afghan national, Haji Bismullah, had contended he was an opponent of the Taliban who had been falsely implicated by terrorists to eliminate him as a provincial official. Without admitting it had wrongfully detained him for six years, the military flew Bismullah home and released him."

• "The government petition was filed this summer, but only recently discovered by the Boston Globe newspaper. It relates to the case of Haji Bismullah, an Afghan who is among several Guantanamo detainees represented by a New York-based advocacy group, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). Currently, mail from lawyers is examined only for physical contraband. The proposed rules call for all of a detainee’s mail to be examined for forbidden information."

• "the case in which the proposal was advanced involves Afghan detainee Haji Bismullah; oral arguments are scheduled for May 15 before the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The Justice Department said that the new restrictions are necessary because lawyers have ‘caused unrest’ at Guantanamo, such as hunger strikes and other protests, have provided detainees with information about events outside the prison, and have provided media outlets with information from detainees."

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