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Muhammed Qasim
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Muhammed Qasim is a citizen of Afghanistan who was reportedly held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. Identity The Philadelphia Inquirer printed an opinion by David L. McColgin, who described working as a lawyer for a Guanntanamo captive named Muhammed Qasim. It only lists two individuals named Qasim: A Yemeni named Khaled Qasim, and a Uyghur named Abu Bakr Qasim. Muhammed Qasim is not listed. McColgin wrote that Qasim attended his Combatant Status Review Tribunal in 2004. Another lawyer that worked on Qasim's case, Mark Wilson, described in the book The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law details of Quasim's release in 2007 to an Afghan prison and his final release to his hometown in 2008. Capture McColgin wrote that Qasim was captured on February 7, 2003.<ref name=Philly070125/> He was captured by a mixed force of Americans and Afghans. He believes that a neighbor falsely alleged he was a member of the Taliban so he could be paid a bounty. McColgin wrote that Qasim was a thirty year old farmer, in Zormat, Afghanistan, who supported his mother and a sister.<ref name=Philly070125/> Combatant Status Review Tribunal Qasim participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal. See Also
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