Editing Ismail Khan (section)

===Testimony requested by a Guantanamo captive===
[[Guantanamo captive]] Abdul Razzaq Hekmati requested Ismail Khan's testimony, when he was called before a [[Combatant Status Review Tribunal]].<ref name="TheJurist060618">{{Cite news |first=Brett |last=Murphy |author-link=Brett Murphy |date=June 18, 2006 |publisher=Jurist |title=Guantanamo Bay detainees not given access to witnesses despite availability |url=http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/06/guantanamo-bay-detainees-not-given.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060620023938/http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/06/guantanamo-bay-detainees-not-given.php |archive-date=June 20, 2006}}</ref> 
Ismail Khan, like [[Afghan Ministry of Defense|Afghan Minister of Defense]] [[Rahim Wardak]], was one of the high-profile Afghans that those conducting the Tribunals ruled were "not reasonably available" to give a statement on a captive's behalf because they could not be located.

Hekmati had played a key role in helping Ismail Khan escape from the Taliban in 1999.<ref name="NYTimes20080205">{{Cite news |last=[[Carlotta Gall]], [[Andy Worthington]] |date=February 5, 2008 |title=Time Runs Out for an Afghan Held by the U.S. |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/world/asia/05gitmo.html?em&ex=1202360400&en=69559dc1ec42361a&ei=5087%0A |url-status=live |access-date=2008-02-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505113537/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/world/asia/05gitmo.html?em&ex=1202360400&en=69559dc1ec42361a&ei=5087%0A |archive-date=May 5, 2011 |quote=Abdul Razzaq Hekmati was regarded here as a war hero, famous for his resistance to the Russian occupation in the 1980s and later for a daring prison break he organized for three opponents of the Taliban government in 1999.}}</ref>
Hekmati stood accused of helping Taliban leaders escape from the custody of Hamid Karzai's government.

[[Carlotta Gall]] and [[Andy Worthington]] interviewed Ismail Khan for a new ''[[The New York Times]]'' article after Hekmati died of cancer in Guantanamo.<ref name=NYTimes20080205/> 
According to the ''New York Times''
Ismail Khan said he personally buttonholed the American ambassador to tell him that Hekmati was innocent, and should be released.  In contrast, Hekmati was told that the State Department had been unable to locate Khan.