List of Bahraini detainees at Guantanamo Bay

Last updated

The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding six Bahraini detainees in Guantanamo. [1]

A total of 778 captives have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002. The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new detainees, all "high value detainees" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush. As of December 2023, 30 detainees remain at Guantanamo Bay. [2]

Bahraini detainees in Guantanamo

isn namestatusnotes
52 Isa Ali Abdulla Almurbati
Transferred
  • Allegedly a follower of Abu Sayyef. [3]
  • Allegedly was told that if he went to war and fought the Jihad, he would have a 15,000 Dinar debt forgiven.
60 Adil Kamil Abdullah Al Wadi
Transferred
  • Alleged to have fought on the front lines. [4]
  • Allegedly disruptive and aggressive while in detention. [5]
  • Claimed he traveled to Afghanistan because he was moved by the plight of the refugees. [6]
  • Released. [7] [8]
159 Abdulla Majid Al Naimi
Transferred
  • Alleged to have traveled to Afghanistan to fight. [9]
227 Salah Abdul Rasul Ali Abdul Rahman Al Balushi
Transferred
  • Press observed his second ARB. [10]
  • Justification for detention unclear.
246 Salman Ebrahim Mohamed Ali Al Khalifa
Transferred
  • Accused of traveling to Afghanistan. [11]
261 Juma Mohammed Abdul Latif Al Dossary
Transferred
  • Allegedly delivered a fiery speech in Buffalo NY that was attended by members of the Lackawanna Six. [12]
  • Says he has been tortured, and has made over a dozen suicide attempts.
  • Repatriated to Saudi custody, with fifteen other men, on July 16, 2007. [13]

Related Research Articles

Abdulla Majid Al Naimi is a Bahraini, formerly held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.

The Al Farouq training camp, also called Jihad Wel al-Farouq, was a Taliban and Al-Qaeda training camp near Kandahar, Afghanistan. Camp attendees received small-arms training, map-reading, orientation, explosives training, and other training. Nasir al-Bahri reported that the camp was only established following the arrival of Egyptian Islamic Jihad and Egyptian Islamic Group militants who had suitable expertise as to provide training to others.

The Khalden training camp was one of the oldest and best-known military training camps in Afghanistan. It was located in the mountains of eastern Paktia Province, near Tora Bora.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mustafa Ait Idir</span> Guantanamo Bay detainee

Mustafa Ait Idir is an individual formerly held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. Ait Idir was born in Algeria, but moved to Bosnia, married a Bosnian woman, and became a Bosnian citizen. Idir was arrested on October 18, 2001, on suspicion of participating in a conspiracy to bomb the United States Embassy. After their release following their acquittal, the six men were captured on January 17, 2002, by American forces, who transferred them to Guantanamo Bay.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mohammed Nechle</span> Bosnian citizen (born 1968)

Mohammed Nechle is a Bosnian citizen who was wrongly held for almost seven years as an "enemy combatant" in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.

Adil Kamil Abdullah Al Wadi is a citizen of Bahrain who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. Al Wadi's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 60. American intelligence analysts estimate that Al Wadi was born in 1964, in Muharraq, Bahrain.

Al Wafa is an Islamic charity listed in Executive Order 13224 as an entity that supports terrorism. United States intelligence officials state that it was founded in Afghanistan by Adil Zamil Abdull Mohssin Al Zamil, Abdul Aziz al-Matrafi and Samar Khand. Affiliated groups include The Taliban and Al Qaeda.

Hajji Shahzada is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. Shahzada's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 952. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate that Shahzada was born in 1959, in Belanday, Afghanistan.

Abdullah Mujahid is a citizen of Afghanistan who is still held in extrajudicial detention after being transferred from United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba — to an Afghan prison. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 1100.

Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost is an Afghan Salafi jihadist militant who served primarily with the Taliban, and later, as a founding member of ISIS–K. Dost's militancy began by age 19, when he left Afghanistan to join the Ikhwan, carrying out the Grand Mosque seizure in Mecca, Saudi Arabia before most of the group were captured and executed, though Dost escaped to Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. By 1986, he had returned to Afghanistan to fight in the Soviet–Afghan War as a member of Jamaat al-Dawah ila al-Quran wal-Sunnah, a Salafist forerunner to the Taliban. Following the Soviet withdrawal, he joined the Taliban as they ascended to power in the 1990s.

Hajji Nasrat Khan is an elderly citizen of Afghanistan best known for the more than three years he spent in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. The United States Department of Defense believed that he was an enemy combatant and assigned him the Internment Serial Number 1009.

Ahmed Adil is a citizen of China who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba.

Starting in 2002, the American government detained 22 Uyghurs in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp. The last 3 Uyghur detainees, Yusef Abbas, Hajiakbar Abdulghupur and Saidullah Khali, were released from Guantanamo on December 29, 2013, and later transferred to Slovakia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mohammed Ahmad Said Al Edah</span> Counter-Terrorist

Mohammed Ahmad Said Al Edah is a citizen of Yemen who was held in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba, for fourteen and a half years. His Internment Serial Number is 33. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate he was born in 1962, in Hay al-Turbawi Ta'iz, Yemen.

Ali Abdul Motalib Awayd Hassan Al Tayeea is a citizen of Iraq who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 111. The Department of Defense reports that Al Tayeea was born in Baghdad, Iraq. The Department of Defense provided a birthday, or an estimated year of birth, for all but 22 of the 759 detainees. Al Tayeea is one of those 22. He was repatriated on January 17, 2009, after more than seven years without ever been charged.

Rafiq Bin Bashir Bin Jalud al Hami is a citizen of Tunisia, who was formerly held for over seven years without charge or trial in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 892. The Department of Defense reports that he was born on 14 March 1969, in Tunisia.

On January 16, 2010, the United States Department of Defense complied with a court order and made public a heavily redacted list of the detainees held in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility. Detainees were initially held in primitive, temporary quarters, in what was originally called the Bagram Collection Point, from late 2001. Detainees were later moved to an indoor detention center until late 2009, when newly constructed facilities were opened.

References

  1. OARDEC (May 15, 2006). "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
  2. "The Guantánamo Docket". The New York Times. 11 December 2023. Archived from the original on 10 January 2024. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
  3. documents (.pdf) [ permanent dead link ] from Issa Ali Abdullah Al Murbati's Combatant Status Review Tribunal
  4. Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Adil Kamil Abdullah Al Wadi's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 55-76
  5. Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf) Archived 2008-05-07 at the Wayback Machine of Adil Kamil Abdullah Al Wadi Administrative Review Board - pages 53-54 - January 28, 2005
  6. Summarized transcript (.pdf), from Adil Kamil Abdullah Al Wadi's Administrative Review Board hearing - page 30
  7. Free, at last! Archived 2020-05-21 at the Wayback Machine , Gulf Daily News , November 5, 2005
  8. Three Bahraini Guantanamo detainees return home [ permanent dead link ], WFOR , November 5, 2005
  9. Summary of Evidence memo (.pdf) Archived 2006-07-31 at the Wayback Machine prepared for Abdulla Majid Al Naimi's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - September 2, 2004 - page 215
  10. Bahrain Bay detainee 'poses no danger' Archived 2020-05-21 at the Wayback Machine , Gulf Daily News , July 2, 2006
  11. Summarized transcripts (.pdf) Archived 2008-02-27 at the Wayback Machine , from Sheikh Salman Ebrahim Mohamed Ali Al Khalifa's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 1-2
  12. FBI reports suicide try by suspect at Gitmo: Man tied to recruiting of 'Lackawanna Six', Buffalo News , November 7, 2005
  13. Raid Qusti (July 17, 2007). "More Gitmo Detainees Come Home". Arab News. Retrieved 2007-07-17.