That’s very interesting, arcticredriver. I hadn’t checked, as I’d presumed that he’d been cleared for release after the first round of the annual Administrative Review Boards (ARBs ) that followed the Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRTs), but I now recall that I didn’t know what had happened to him for some time, as he disappeared off the system after the CSRTs. It may mean — although I thought I’d checked all the records — that he was actually the last of the 58 prisoners cleared after the CSRTs (when they were known, at the very beginning, as NECs – not enemy combatants – until the administration realized that it suggested they were innocent and changed it to NLECs – no longer enemy combatants), but at the very least it means that he was cleared as long ago as 2005, and has been waiting for at least four and a half years to be released. What a disgrace!

I was hoping you would fill us in on these transfers Andy. Interestingly the NYTimes shows no record of his annual ARB hearings.

Good luck to these two gentleman.

I suspect that the generosity of Shakrukh’s mentor puzzled the American analysts. But there are Christians who are generous, and a minority of them are very generous, deciding to take years off to work on charitable projects, or make very generous donations to charities they like. It seems to me that just as some Christians feel a very serious obligation to be charitable, so do some Muslims.

It is very unfortunate that there wasn’t any sanity checking of the allegations against the GWOT captives.