Asadullah Rahman
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Asadullah Rahman was a 10-year old al-Qaeda suspect held by U.S. forces first at the U.S. base in Gardez and then at Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He was held for seventeen months. Due to pressure from the International Committee of the Red Cross, Agha was finally released January 29, 2004 and allowed to go back to his home in eastern Afghanistan.
Rahman was put into custody by U.S. soldiers in 2002 when he was found in the compound of a local Afghan commander. Rahman was handcuffed, blindfolded, and interrogated on three separate occasions. Rahman maintains he was beaten while being interrogated in Gardez.
The U.S. military asserts that Rahman is one to three years older than he claims and that he was a trained gunman conscripted to fight in an anti-U.S. militia. Asadullah claims that he was kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery to Commander Sammoud, a local gunman.
The first sign his family received that he was alive came in a letter delivered by the International Committee of the Red Cross more than a year after he went missing.