On June 15, 2008, the McClatchy News Service published a series of articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives.[2]
Mohammed Saduq was one of the former captives who had an article profiling him.[3][4][5][6][7][8]
Mohammed Saduq reported he was captured in his home in Chaman, not on a battlefield.[8]
His capture didn't surprise him because as the director of an orphanage, he was a civil servant appointed by the Taliban.[8] The McClatchy article reported that the Tahia Maskan orphanage he directed:[8]
...was, by most accounts, a place where children were malnourished and often beaten, another horrific corner of the Taliban world, but not an important post.
...was not a military guy, he was not a minister, but he was someone the Taliban consulted with because he was seen as someone who understood politics.
Mohammed Saduq acknowledged to his interrogators that he had met MullahMohammed Omar, and much of his interrogations focussed around these brief meetings.[8]
According to the McClatchy interviewer, Mohammed Saduq hopes the Taliban retake Afghanistan.[8]
...very weak, physically, when I saw him at Guantanamo.
It is very difficult to know the inside of a man, and it's hard to say how it affected him — going from an ambassador to being in a cage — but he told me in Guantanamo that he was suffering badly.