Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar (1969[1] – September 25, 2004) was an Afghan who was held by the United States in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.
[3] Born in 1969 in Karabagh, Ghazni Province, Shai Jahn Ghafoor was a citizen of Afghanistan.
[3] Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar has been cited as an example of a Guantanamo detainee who tricked their way out of imprisonment, so they could "return to the battlefield."
Vice President Dick Cheney cited Ghaffar as a justification for continuing to detain suspects at Guantanamo.
[citation needed] Ghaffar was killed along with two of his men in a gun battle during a raid on the night of September 25, 2004, in the village of Pishi, Uruzgan province.