Sharif Fati Ali al Mishad
| Sharif Fathi Ali Al-Mashad | |
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| Born |
December 14, 1976 Shibin El Kom, Egypt |
| Arrested | 2001-11 Pakistan Pakistani border guards |
| Released | 2012-02-25 Albania |
| Citizenship | Egypt |
| Detained at | Kandahar, Guantanamo |
| ISN | 190 |
| Charge(s) | no charge extrajudicial detention |
| Status | transferred to Albania |
| Occupation | Building contractor |
Sharif Fati Ali Al Mishad also known as Sherif el Mashad is a citizen of Egypt who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 190. Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts report he was born on December 14, 1976, in Shibin El Kom, Egypt.
According to Andy Worthington, the author of The Guantanamo Files, Mashad was a businessman, who had made his home in Italy, who had travelled to Afghanistan solely to provide humanitarian aid. He had been a talented athlete and craftsman. He worked at Beach resorts in Sinai for three years, after graduating from technical school, then went to live in Italy with an uncle who was an Italian citizen. After working in construction in Italy he started his own successful construction firm
Worthington describes Mashad agreeing to travel to Afghanistan to work with a Kuwaiti businessman and philanthropist. According to Worthington Mushad would later describe this decision as a combination charitable exercise and business networking opportunity -- "like attending a fundraising gala".
Mashad arrived in Afghanistan, in mid-2001, in spite of his mother's reservations, according to Worthington. He was trapped in Afghanistan after the Afghan-Iranian border closed following the US counter-attacks. He was able to cross the border with Pakistan, in November 2001, but was promptly apprehended by a Pakistani border patrol.
Worthington attributed his continued detention by US forces to "patently false" denunciations from other captives. He offered the example of a denunciation from one of the Guantanamo captives who passed right from being a Taliban prison to US custody. This captive claimed Mashad had been one of his torturers, in 2000. Worthington repeated how Mashad had insisted to his interrogators that he was living in Italy in 2000 as his documents clearly established.
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