Mohammad Fazl

Mullah Mohammad Fazl
Mohammed Fazl's Guantanamo identity portrait -- the white uniform shows he is considered "compliant"
Deputy Defense minister
Personal details
Born	October 24, 1967 (age 48) Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan
Political party	Taliban
Religion	Islam (Deobandi)
Military service
Allegiance	Taliban (1994-2010)
Years of service	1994-2001
Rank	Commander
Battles/wars	Afghan civil war War in Afghanistan

Mullah Mohammad Fazl (born October 24, 1967) is the Taliban's former Deputy Defense Minister, and was held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 7. He arrived at the Guantanamo detention camps on 11 January 2002, and was held there until 31 May 2014. He was released, along with the other four members of the so-called Taliban five—Khairullah Khairkhwa, Abdul Haq Wasiq, Norullah Noori, and Mohammad Nabi Omari in exchange for the release of United States Army soldier Bowe Bergdahl, who had been held captive by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network.

Not much is known about Fazl, except that he served as the deputy defense minister under the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban rule). American intelligence analysts estimate that Fazl was born in 1967, in Sekzi, Caher Cineh District, Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan. Although he negotiated an amnesty with the Afghan Northern Alliance leader Abdul Rashid Dostum, it is alleged that he is responsible for killing thousands of Shi'a Afghans between 1996 and late 2001.