Mohammad Nabi Omari

Mohammad Nabi Omari is a citizen of Afghanistan currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 832. American intelligence analysts estimate that he was born in 1968, in Khowst, Afghanistan.

He arrived at the Guantanamo detention camps on October 28, 2002, and has been held there for.

According to the Wall Street Journal he is one of five senior Taliban leaders still in custody at Guantanamo, and that the Obama Presidency had been negotiating with the Taliban to exchange these five leaders for Bowe Bergdahl.

Scholars at the Brookings Institute, lead by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations:


 * Mohammad Nabi Omari was listed as one of the captives who the military alleges were members of either al Qaeda or the Taliban and associated with the other group.
 * Mohammad Nabi Omari was listed as one of the captives whose "names or aliases were found on material seized in raids on Al Qaeda safehouses and facilities."
 * Mohammad Nabi Omari was listed as one of the captives who was a member of the Taliban leadership.
 * Mohammad Nabi Omari was listed as one of "36 [captives who] openly admit either membership or significant association with Al Qaeda, the Taliban, or some other group the government considers militarily hostile to the United States."
 * Mohammad Nabi Omari was listed as one of the captives who admitted "serving Al Qaeda or the Taliban in some non-military capacity."

During his Combatant Status Review Tribunal Omari acknowledged he had worked for the Taliban, but claimed that was prior to 9-11. He claimed that after the US invasion he had been a loyal supporter of the Hamid Karzai government, and that he had been a covert operative for a US intelligence officer he knew only as "Mark".