Norullah Noori

Mullah Norullah Noori
In this identity portrait Norullah Noori wears the white uniform issued to compliant captives while detained at Guantanamo Bay.
Governor of Balkh Province
Personal details
Born	1967 Shajoie, Afghanistan
Political party	Taliban
Religion	Islam (Deobandi)
Military service
Allegiance	Taliban
Years of service	1994-2001
Battles/wars	Afghan civil war War in Afghanistan

Mullah Norullah Noori is a citizen of Afghanistan who spent more than 12 years in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 6. Noori was released from the detention camp on May 31, 2014, in a prisoner exchange that involved Bowe Bergdahl and the Taliban five, and flown to Qatar.

Intelligence analysts estimated he was born in 1967 in Shajoie, Afghanistan.

Norullah Noori was the Taliban's Governor of Balkh Province. 2001 press reports describe General Rashid Dostum bringing Noori with him, when he toured the ruins the Qala-i-Jangi fortress, after over 400 captives died there in what is usually described as a failed prison uprising. Noori was reported to have ordered the Taliban fighters in his jurisdiction to peacefully surrender to Dostum's Northern Alliance forces.

Norullah has been listed by the United Nations 1267 Committee since January 25, 2001.

Norullah Noori arrived at Guantanamo on January 11, 2002, and had been held there for 12 years. The allegations used to justify his detention in Guantanamo asserted he was an interim Provincial Governor—of Jalalabad [sic], temporary governor of Mazari Sharif [sic] and Governor of Balkh Province.