Abdul Haq (Uighur)
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Abdul Haq is a member of the Uyghur ethnic group who directed a camp of Uighurs in the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan.[1]
The camp was bombed in October 2001, and the approximately two dozen Uyghurs who survived the bombing fled. Most of them were captured when they fled to Pakistan, and were held in extrajudicial detention.
During their Combatant Status Review Tribunals they faced allegations that they were tied to the East Turkistan Islamic Movement, that they completed military training at this camp, and that they were tied to the Taliban. They responded by saying that the camp was composed entirely of Uyghurs, that they had received minimal amount of training on the AK-47, from Haq and another Uighur named Hassan Maksum, and that most of what they did there was construction work.
Neither Haq or Maksum is known to have been captured by the Americans or their allies.
[edit] References
- ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdullah Abdulqadirakhum'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 26-39
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