Noorullah Noori

Mullah Noorullah Noori (Pashto: نورالله نوري [nʊrʊˈlɑ nʊˈri]; born 1967) is the Minister of Borders and Tribal Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan since 7 September 2021. He was also the Taliban's Governor of Balkh Province during their first administration (1996–2001). Noorullah Noori spent more than 12 years in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. Noori was released from the detention camp on May 31, 2014, in a prisoner exchange that involved Bowe Bergdahl and the Taliban Five, and flown to Qatar.

Noorullah Noori
نورالله نوري
Noori while detained at Guantanamo Bay
Minister of Borders and Tribal Affairs
Acting
Assumed office
7 September 2021
Prime MinisterMohammad Hassan Akhund
LeaderHibatullah Akhundzada
Preceded byAbdul Karim Brahui
Governor of Balkh
In office
October 2000  December 2001
Prime MinisterMohammad Rabbani
LeaderMohammed Omar
Succeeded byMaulvi Qudratullah (2021)
Personal details
Born1967 (age 5657)
Shajoie, Afghanistan
Political partyTaliban
Military service
Allegiance Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
Branch/serviceIslamic Army of Afghanistan
Years of service1994-2001
Battles/warsAfghan civil war
War in Afghanistan

2001 press reports describe General Rashid Dostum bringing Noori with him when he toured the ruins the Qala-i-Jangi fortress, after over 400 captives died there in what is usually described as a failed prison uprising. Noori was reported to have ordered the Taliban fighters in his jurisdiction to peacefully surrender to Dostum's Northern Alliance forces.

Noorullah Noori arrived at Guantanamo on January 11, 2002, and was held there for 12 years. The allegations used to justify his detention in Guantanamo asserted he was an interim Provincial Governor of Jalalabad, temporary governor of Mazari Sharif and Governor of Balkh Province. Noorullah has been listed by the United Nations 1267 Committee since January 25, 2001.

Throughout the fall of 2011 and the winter of 2012, the United States conducted peace negotiations with the Taliban and widely leaked was that a key sticking point was the ongoing detention of Noorullah and four other senior Taliban. Negotiations hinged on a proposal to send the five men directly to Doha, Qatar, where they would be allowed to set up an official office for the Taliban.

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