On June 15, 2008 the
McClatchy News Service published a series of articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives. Noor Habib was captured in November 2001 in
Bamian Province when he and another man were transporting a shipment of goats. Noor Habib was transported to Guantanamo in mid-2002. Before he was released, in the summer of 2003, shortly before he was repatriated, he was told that he had been suspected of being a Taliban commander. The McClatchy reporters had stated that the Afghan intelligence officials—who had previously confirmed to them when their records indicated if a former captive had ties to the Taliban or had been falsely denounced—had no records of Noor Habib. Noor Habib said he had been a simple truck driver prior to his apprehension, in
Bamian in November 2001, and he had no ties with the Taliban. He had spent four months in an Afghan detention facility in Bamian, where Afghans abused him, and had then spent several months in the
Kandahar detention facility, where Americans abused him. He spent a year in Guantanamo, before two American officials informed him he had been mistaken for a senior Taliban official, and he was flown home. ==BBC interview==