Abdul Rauf Aliza
| Abdul Rauf Aliza ملا عبد الرؤوف |
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| Born |
10 February 1981 Azan, Helmand Province, Afghanistan |
| Died | 9 February 2015 (aged 33) Helmand Province, Afghanistan |
| Allegiance |
 Taliban(unknown-2014)  ISIL(October 2014–February 2015) |
| Rank | Deputy leader of Wilayah Khorasan |
| Battles/wars |
War in Afghanistan (2001–present) War in Afghanistan (2015–present) |
Mullah Abdul Rauf Aliza (Pashto: ملا عبد الرؤوف), widely identified as Mullah Abdul Rauf Khadim, was an Afghan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba, until 20 December 2007. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 108. The Department of Defense reports that he was born in Azan, Afghanistan.
Following his release from detention, he returned to Afghanistan to fight alongside the Taliban, becoming a provincial-level military commander. After falling out with the Taliban leadership, Rauf swore allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and was named deputy commander for its Afghanistan-Pakistan based Wilayah Khorasan branch, before being killed by a US drone strike in February 2015.
Abdul Rauf testified he was from Helmand Province. He testified that an injury from a Soviet land mine had left him too injured for military duties, so he had been employed providing food during his Taliban conscription. Having become a foot soldier for several known Taliban commanders, he eventually became a member of Taliban leader Mullah Omar’s elite mobile reserve force before the attacks on September 11, 2001. He was the Taliban's last Governor of Konar Province.
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