Zia Rahman

For the similarly named Taliban leader reported killed in September 2009 see Qari Ziaur Rahman.
Zia Rahman
Arrested2008-12-09
Jalalabad
Afghan National Army
CitizenshipAfghanistan[citation needed]
Detained at Bagram
Other name(s) "Hamid"
ISN3887
Charge(s)no charge, extrajudicial detention

Zia Rahman is a citizen of Afghanistan[citation needed] held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Bagram Theater Internment Facility.[1] On January 15, 2010, the Department of Defense complied with a court order and published a list of Captives held in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility that included his name.[2][3] There were 645 names on the list, which was dated September 22, 2009, and was heavily redacted.

Zia Rahman or another individual named Zia Rahman was reported by U.S. Forces Afghanistan to have been captured in a Taliban safe house in Jalalabad, based on a tip he was involved in a plot to assassinate the Provincial Governor. He was described as a "suicide IED facilitator", who had the chemical residue of explosives on his hands. Rahman was alleged to have prepared bombs and mines used in several previous attacks, including one in November 2008 that killed a US soldier.[4]

  1. ^ "Bagram detainees" (PDF). Department of Defense. 2009-09-22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-01-24.
  2. ^ Andy Worthington (2010-01-19). "Dark Revelations in the Bagram Prisoner List". truthout. Archived from the original on 2010-01-23.
  3. ^ Andy Worthington (2010-01-26). "Bagram: The First Ever Prisoner List (The Annotated Version)". Archived from the original on 2010-01-31.
  4. ^ "Afghan Commandos prevent assassination of Nangarhar Provincial Governor". Combined Task Force 82. 2008-12-09. Retrieved 2010-02-20. Afghan National Army Commandos, assisted by Coalition forces detained suicide IED facilitator Zia Rahman in Jalalabad City, Nangarhar Province, located approximately 230 kilometers east of Kabul. After receiving credible information from local officials on an impending assassination plot against governor Sherzai, the Nangarhar Provincial Governor, ANA Commandos conducted a raid on a Taliban safe house in Jalalabad City.