He was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States-controlled Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba.
[1]Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts report he was born on October 10, 1974, in Ghulja, Xinjiang.
[2] A February 18, 2006, article in The Washington Times claimed that Abu Bakker Qassim and A'Del Abdu al-Hakim had received military training in Afghanistan.
[3] It reported they were not classified as "illegal combatants" because they intended to go home and employ their training against the Chinese government and were released.
[9][10] The McClatchy interview records his account of his "military training" in the Uyghur construction camp: “They had some guns, some AK-47s, and asked us if we wanted to learn to use them.