1460 was so badly tortured, though, that he would rather live in another block essentially alone with his sad thoughts.Ĭlosing out the “no value detainees” (the NVDs) we have No. 1461 are Pakistani, and we can speak some Urdu. None is Afghan but me, so there is nobody who speaks either Pashto or Dari and I am in danger of losing my language.
Twenty-three of us “nobody numbers” remain here in Guantánamo. My infant baby, Mariam, is now a teenager. My wife waits year after year for news that her husband is coming home. Importantly, then, I am also Asadullah Haroon, the Afghan citizen from Nangarhar. It is easy to mistreat something called No. Serial numbers are for inanimate objects. A name makes a person individual and unique. We are nameless, faceless, referenced by an internment “serial number” – as if we are pieces of hardware, no longer human. The Guantánamo military base is almost invisible to the world the detainees held here have totally vanished from the world. By Guantánamo ISN 3148 (aka Asadullah Haroon)
