" While the U.S. claims he was a Taliban commander , Gul has long insisted that he quit the Taliban a year before the 9/11 attack because , as his lawyer put it , ' he was disgusted by the Taliban 's growing penchant for corruption and abuse . ' " '' USA Today '' reported that Gul " had played a key role in persuading Taliban commanders to surrender Nangarhar Province to a council of tribal leaders . " His attorneys wrote in a letter after Gul 's death : The government charged that he was a prominent member of the Taliban and its military , but we proved that this is false . Indeed , we have documents from Afghanistan , even a letter from Mullah Omar himself on Taliban letterhead , discussing Mr. Gul 's efforts to resign from the Taliban a year or more before 9/11/01 . ... Mr. Gul was never an enemy of the United States in any way . ... We now hear for the very first time in the nearly 10 years since Mr. Gul 's arrest , that ( 1 ) he operated a guesthouse for Al-Qaida members , and ( 2 ) that he admitted providing bin Laden operational support on several occasions . Over the course of almost 3 years in court , the government has never provided any evidence at all to support this slander . Neither Mr. Gul nor any credible witness has ever said such things . Indeed , this is why the government placed Mr. Gul in the group of prisoners set for " indefinite detention ; " it admitted that it lacked any credible evidence to prove its suspicions in a court of law . The government never even made these claims until now , when Mr. Gul is not alive to defend himself
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