Profile: Abdullah Mehsud
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Profile: Abdullah Mehsud
Mehsud, 33, spent 25 months in custody at the US base in Cuba before his release in March 2004.
He commanded militants who kidnapped two Chinese engineers in Pakistan's South Waziristan region shortly after his release.
One of the Chinese men was killed during a rescue bid by Pakistani forces.
As a young man, Mehsud fought for the Taleban against the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan.
He lost a leg in a landmine explosion a few days before the Taleban took Kabul in September 1996.
He surrendered along with several thousand fighters to the forces of Uzbek warlord, Abdul Rashid Dostum, in December 2001 in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, and was later turned over to the US military authorities.
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Oh yeah, we should close Gitmo and let them all go?
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