A Guantánamo Detainee's Lessons About Family and Love

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Mansoor Adayfi, Taking Marriage Class, at Guantánamo; An imprisoned Yemeni mean learns about love from a fellow detainee, and an iguana. New York Times, July 29, 2018 (in the column Modern Love).
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/ ... -at-guantanamo.html

Excerpt in the window of print: Our teacher taught us about loving and being loved. He described what t would feel like when we saw and talked to the woman we loved.

Note:
(a) Mansur
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansur
(b)
(i) Mansoor Adayfi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansur_Ahmad_Saad_al-Dayfi
(ii) Arun Rath, 'Out Of Gitmo': Released Guantanamo Detainee Struggles In His New Home. NPR, Feb 21, 2017  
https://www.npr.org/2017/02/21/5 ... e-struggles-in-his-
("Hundreds of men, including many non-Afghans, surrendered near Kunduz and were being held as enemy combatants at Qala-i-Jangi fortress by the Afghan Northern Alliance (United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan) forces for an interrogation by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) personnel * * * Qala-i-Jangi ('the war fortress' in Persian), a 19th-century fortress near Mazar-i-Sharif")

Quote:

"He was captured in 2001 after the prison uprising at Mazar-e Sharif in Afghanistan and told interrogators he trained with al-Qaida and met repeatedly with Osama bin Laden.

Ambassador Lee Wolosky, the State Department special envoy for Guantanamo closure under President Obama who negotiated the deal with Serbia to take in Dayfi, says Dayfi got a fair deal: "An individual is picked up [in Afghanistan] as a fighter by the United States. He spends a period of time in Guantanamo. And then one of our partner countries offers not only to take him in, but to give him a stipend, give him an apartment, give him language training, and to provide two years of educational support")

(A) Mazar-i-Sharif
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazar-i-Sharif  
("is the fourth-largest city of Afghanistan [see map] * * * The name Mazar-i-Sharif means 'Tomb of the Prince,' a reference to the large, blue-tiled sanctuary and mosque [see photo]")

* sharif
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sharif
(B) Quotation 1 indicated he was captured AFTER the uprising. As far as I can find in the Web, he had not been incarcerated before the uprising, a description of which is in Battle of Qala-i-Jangi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Qala-i-Jangi
("Of the estimated 300–500 prisoners brought to the fortress, only 86 emerged still alive (some of whom later died of their wounds) * * * [One survivor was] John Walker Lindh")