Determined not to have been an Enemy Combatant

Zaman was one of 38 detainees who was determined not to have been an enemy combatant during his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
The Department of Defense refers to these men as No Longer Enemy Combatants.

Zaman was freed on April 20, 2005 with sixteen other Afghans whose Tribunals had determined they were not enemy combatants.
The Associated Press

Associated Press

The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...

reported that their release ceremony was addressed by Afghan Chief Justice Fazl Hadi Shinwari.
Carlotta Gall

Carlotta Gall

Carlotta Gall is a British journalist who covers Afghanistan, as well as Pakistan for The New York Times.Carlotta Gall is a daughter of the British journalist Sandy Gall and Eleanor Gall. She was educated in England and read Russian and French at Newnham College, Cambridge...

 of the New York Times reported that the Chief Justice encouraged the men to regard their detention as something sent from God.
The reports stated that the Chief Justice warned the cleared men that a candid description of their detention could damage the chances of other Afghan captives to be released.

"Don't tell these people the stories of your time in prison because the government is trying to secure the release of others, and it may harm the release of your friends."

Zaman was one of the three captives who chose to address the Press.
He was quoted as saying:

"There were some old people there, some of them are still there. And it is very amazing that somebody who was taken from his home stayed for three years in prison. The prison has nothing to commend it. There were difficulties. The other problems the world knows about,"

Both reports quoted Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Shinwari distinguishing three categories of captives:

"There are three kinds of prisoners in Guantanamo. There are those that have committed crimes and should be there, then there are people who were falsely denounced, and third there are those who are there because of the mistakes of the Americans."

Subsequent Bagram detention

On January 15, 2010, the Department of Defense complied with a court order and published a heavily redacted list of Captives held in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility.
There were 645 names on the list, which was dated September 22, 2009.
Historian Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington is a British historian, journalist, and film director.He has published three books, and been published in numerous publications.In 2009 Worthington was the co-director of a documentary about the Guantanamo detainees....

, author of the The Guantanamo Files, noted that three of the individuals on that list had the same name and ID number as former Guantanamo captives.
He noted that all the other Bagram captives had ID numbers that weren't in the same range as those used at Guantanamo, and he asserted that these three men, Gul Zaman, Khandan Kadir

Khandan Kadir

-Administrative Review Board hearing:Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings...

 and Hafizullah Shabaz Khail

Hafizullah Shabaz Khail

Dr. Hafizullah Shabaz Khail is a citizen of Afghanistan, who was held in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1946, in Paktia, Afghanistan....

 were in fact former Guantanamo captives.

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