List of Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay

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The United States has held a total of 115 Yemeni citizens at Guantanamo Bay, forty-two of whom have since been transferred out of the facility. [1] Only Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia had a greater number of their citizens held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. [1] By January 2008, the Yemenis in Guantanamo represented the largest group of detainees. [2]

Contents

Among the Yemeni detainees currently held (as of November 2015), 44 are recommended for transfer out of the facility, while twenty-three are being held indefinitely and are not recommended for transfer. [1] Only Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul was convicted by military tribunal. Two of his convictions were vacated on appeal but a third, for conspiracy, was restored in 2016 en banc by a plurality of justices on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. [3] Two Yemeni detainees are awaiting trials by military commissions, Ramzi bin al-Shibh and Walid Bin Attash. [1]

Events

A delegation of Yemeni officials visited Guantanamo shortly after it opened in January 2002. [4]

On March 12, 2008, Mark Falkoff of the Center for Constitutional Rights issued a call for the repatriation of the Yemeni detainees, reporting that 95 Yemenis remained in detention, and they now constituted more than a third of the total detainee population. [5] Falkoff wrote that the delay in his release is due to a failure of the United States and Yemeni governments to reach an agreement on the security arrangements for the detainees, following their repatriation. By contrast, almost all the 133 Saudi detainees in Guantanamo had been sent home in 2006 and 2007.[ citation needed ]

Impact of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's alleged attempted suicide bombing

On December 25, 2009, Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (whose mother is from Yemen) [6] allegedly tried to set off a suicide bomb on Northwest Airlines Flight 253. By December 27, 2009, responding to rumors that Abdulmutallab had confessed to being trained and equipped in Yemen, various American politicians, including Joe Lieberman, Pete Hoekstra, Peter T. King and Bennie Thompson, called for American President Barack Obama to halt plans to repatriate the Yemenis. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

Repatriation negotiations

An article published in the Yemen Post on November 13, 2012, reported on secret terms in the US-Yemeni repatriation negotiations. [12]

Repatriated detainees

Several returned Yemeni detainees were charged and stood trial, following their repatriation. [13] Yemen established a special Criminal Court for Terrorism where their trials took place. [14] [15] [16] [17]

On 7 June 2008, the Yemeni site Al Sahwa Net reported that negotiations were advanced for the repatriation of approximately seventy Yemeni detainees. [18] That same day, Yemen Online reported that several Yemeni detainees had recently been allowed to their first phone calls to their families. [19]

List of Yemeni detainees in Guantanamo

ISN NameArrival
date
Departure
date
NotesTransfer
recommendation
status
00026Fahed Abdullah Ahmad Ghazi2002-01-112016-01-13transferred to Oman [20] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00027Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman2002-12-11received habeas corpus 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended continued detention
00028 Muaz Hamza Ahmad Al Alawi 2002-01-172010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended continued detention
00029 Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Al Ansi 2002-01-162017-01-16transferred to Oman [21] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended continued detention
00030Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi2002-01-162016-04-16 Saudi Arabia [22] [23] [24] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00031 Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid 2002-01-122016-08-15transferred to the United Arab Emirates [25] [26] 201x Periodic Review Board recommended transfer
00032Faruq Ali Ahmed2002-01-112009-12-19transferred [ where? ]
00033 Mohammed Ahmad Said Al Edah 2002-01-172016-08-15transferred to the United Arab Emirates [25] [26] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00034Al Khadr Abdallah Muhammed Al Yafi2002-01-172015-01-14transferred to Oman [27] [28] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00035 Idris Ahmed Abdu Qader Idris 2002-06-082015-06-13transferred to Oman [29] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00036 Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris 2002-01-112013-12-182010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00037 Abd al Malik Abd al Wahab 2002-01-112016-06-22granted asylum in Montenegro [ citation needed ]2014 Periodic Review Board recommended transfer [30] [31]
00039 Ali Hamza Ahmed Suleiman Al Bahlul 2002-01-11serving his sentence in Guantanamo
00040Abdel Qadir Hussein Al Mudhaffari2002-01-142016-08-15transferred to the United Arab Emirates [25] [26] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00041 Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmad 2002-01-172016-08-15transferred to the United Arab Emirates [25] [26] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended continued detention
00043 Samir Naji Al Hasan Moqbel 2002-01-112016-01-13transferred to Oman [20] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00044 Mohammed Rajab Sadiq Abu Ghanim 2002-01-112017-01-05transfer [32] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended continued detention
00045 Ali Ahmad Muhammad Al Rahizi 2002-01-112015-11-16transferred to the United Arab Emirates. [33]
00069Sadeq Muhammad Sa'id Ismail2007-06-182004-11-12 JTF-GTMO DAB recommended transfer [ citation needed ]
00078 Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al Hanashi 2002-02-082009-06-01died in custody [ citation needed ]2008-06-10 JTF-GTMO DAB recommended continued detention
00088Waqas Mohammed Ali Awad2002-01-202016-01-13transferred to Oman [20] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00091Abdul Al Saleh2002-02-092016-08-15transferred to the United Arab Emirates [25] [26] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00115Abdul Rahman Mohamed Saleh Naser2002-06-122016-04-16 Saudi Arabia [22] [23] [24] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00117 Muktar Yahya Najee Al Warafi 2002-05-012016-01-13transferred to Oman [20] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00128 Ghaleb Nassar Al Bihani 2002-01-172017-01-16transferred to Oman [21] 201x Periodic Review Board recommended transfer
00129Toufiq Saber Muhammad Al Marwa'i2002-06-122006-12-15transferred [ where? ]2005-01-07 JTF-GTMO DAB recommended transfer
00131 Salem Ahmed Hadi 2002-01-202017-01-05transfer [32] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended continued detention
00149 Salim Ahmed Hamdan 2002-05-012008-11-25transferred to serve sentence [ where? ]2008-09-04 JTF-GTMO DAB recommended continued detention
00152 Asim Thahit Abdullah Al Khalaqi 2002-01-172014-12-30asylum [ where? ]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer; died in Kazakhstan shortly after his transfer [ citation needed ]
00153 Fayiz Ahmad Yahia Suleiman 2002-01-172016-07-10transferred to Italy. [34] [35]
00156 Allal Ab Aljallil Abd Al Rahman Abd 2002-01-172012-09-10died in custody [ citation needed ]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00162Ali Husayn Abdullah Al Tays2002-02-092006-12-15transfer2004-10-08 JTF-GTMO DAB recommended transfer
00163Khalid Abd Jal Jabbar Muhammad Juthman Al Qadasi2002-02-092015-11-16transferred to the United Arab Emirates. [33] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00165Adil Said Al Haj Obeid Al Busayss2002-01-172015-11-16transferred to the United Arab Emirates. [33] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00167Ali Yahya Mahdi Al Raimi2002-05-012016-04-16 Saudi Arabia [22] [23] [24] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00170Sharaf Ahmad Muhammad Masud2002-06-082015-06-13transferred to Oman [29] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00171Abu Bakr Ibn Ali Muhhammad Alahdal2002-01-142016-01-13transferred to Oman [20] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00172Ali Muhammed Nasir2002-01-142007-09-28transferred2004-10-28 JTF-GTMO DAB recommended transfer
00178 Tarek Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada 2002-02-092016-04-16unknown [22] [23] [24] [36] [37] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00183Issam Hamid Al Bin Ali Al Jayfi2002-01-172006-12-15transferred2004-10-29 JTF-GTMO DAB recommended transfer
00193Muhsin Muhammad Musheen Moqbill2002-05-032006-12-15transferred2004-10-01 JTF-GTMO DAB recommended transfer
00198Mohammed Ahmed Ali Al Asadi2002-05-012006-12-15transferred2004-09-17 JTF-GTMO DAB recommended transfer
00202Mahmmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef2002-02-072016-01-06transferred to Ghana [ citation needed ]
00221Ali Mohsen Salih2002-02-112007-06-18transfer2004-09-17 JTF-GTMO DAB recommended transfer
00223Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghiyth Sulayman2002-02-112016-08-15transferred to the United Arab Emirates [25] [26] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00224Abd Al Rahman Abdullah Ali Muhammad2002-02-092015-01-14transferred to Oman [27] [28] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00225Hani Abdul Muslih Al Shulan2002-02-092007-06-18transferred [ where? ]2004-10-15 JTF-GTMO DAB recommended transfer
died in Yemen in 2009.
00233Abdul Al Razzaq Muhammad Salih2002-02-112016-01-13transferred to Oman [20] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00235 Saeed Ahmed Mohammed Abdullah Sarem Jarabh 2002-02-112016-08-15transferred to the United Arab Emirates [25] [26] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00240Abdullah Yahia Yousf al Shabli2002-02-072017-01-05transferred [ where? ] [32]
00242 Khaled Qasim 2002-05-012010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended continued detention
00249Mohammed Abdullah Al Hamiri2016-04-16 Saudi Arabia [22] [23] [24] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00251Muhhammad Said Bin Salem2002-02-072016-01-13transferred to Oman [38] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00252 Yasim Muhammed Basardah 2002-02-122010-05-04 ?
00254Muhammad Ali Hussein Khenaina2002-06-082014-12-30 ?
00255Said Muhammed Salih Hatim2002-06-122016-01-13transferred to Oman [20] 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00256Atag Ali Abdoh Al-Haj2002-06-122009-12-19 ?
00259Fadil Husayn Salih Hintif2002-02-092015-01-14transferred to Oman [27] [28]
00321Ahmed Yaslam Said Kuman2002-05-032016-04-16 Saudi Arabia [22] [23] [24]
00324 Mashur Abdallah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri 2002-05-012016-04-16 Saudi Arabia [22] [23] [24]
00434 Mustafa Abdul Qawi Abdul Aziz Al Shamyri 2002-06-122017-01-16transferred to Oman [21]
00440 Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir 2002-05-012017-01-05transferred [ where? ] [32]
00441 Abdul al-Rahman al-Ziahri 2002-02-092016-07-11transferred to Serbia [ citation needed ]
00461Abdul Rahman Umir Al Qyati2002-05-032016-04-16 Saudi Arabia [22] [23] [24]
00498 Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel 2002-05-032017-01-16transferred to Oman [21]
00503Saleh Mohamed Al Zuba2002-06-082006-12-15 ?
00506 Khalid Mohammed Salih Al Dhuby 2002-05-052016-01-06transferred to Ghana [ citation needed ]
00508 Salman Yahya Hassan Mohammed Rabeii 2002-05-012017-01-16transferred to Oman [21]
00509Mohammed Nasir Yahya Khusruf2002-05-032016-08-15transferred to the United Arab Emirates [25] [26]
00511 Sulaiman Awath Sulaiman Bin Ageel Al Nahdi 2002-05-052015-11-16transferred to the United Arab Emirates. [33]
00522 Yasin Qasem Muhammad Ismail 2002-05-01 ?
00549 Omar Said Salim Al Dayi 2002-02-152016-01-13transferred to Oman [20]  ?
00550Walid Said Bin Said Zaid2002-05-032017-01-16transferred to Oman [21]
00553Abdul Khaled Al-Baydani2002-05-012014-11-20 ?
00554Fahmi Salem Said Al Sani2002-02-152015-11-16transferred to the United Arab Emirates. [33]
00564Jalal Salam Bin Amer2002-06-142015-06-13transferred to Oman [29]
00566Mansour Muhammed Ali Al-Qatta2002-06-182016-04-16 Saudi Arabia [22] [23] [24]
00569Zuhail Abdo Anam Said Al Sharabi2002-05-05 ?
00570Sabri Mohammed Ebrahim Al Qurashi2002-05-052014-12-30 ?
00574Hamoud Abdullah Hamoud Hassan Al Wady2002-06-082013-12-16 ?
00575Saad Masir Mukbl Al Azani2002-06-182015-06-13transferred to Oman [29]
00576 Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun 2002-05-052016-08-15transferred to the United Arab Emirates [25] [26]
00577Jamal Muhammad Alawi Mar'i2002-05-012009-12-19 ?
00578 Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi 2002-05-03 ?
00586 Karam Khamis Sayd Khamsan 2002-05-012005-08-19 ?
00627 Ayman Saeed Abdullah Batarfi 2002-05-012009-12-19 ?
00678Fawaz Naman Hamoud Abdallah Mahdi2002-06-182007-06-18 ?
00679 Mohmmad Ahmad Ali Tahar 2002-06-142009-12-19 ?
00680Emad Abdalla Hassan2002-06-182015-06-13transferred to Oman [29]
00681Mohammed Mohammed Hassen2002-06-182010-07-13received habeas corpus [ citation needed ]
00683Fayad Yahya Ahmed2002-06-182009-12-19 ?
00686Abdel Ghalib Ahmad Hakim2002-06-182014-11-20 ?
00688Fahmi Abdullah Ahmed2002-06-18 ?
00689Mohammed Ahmed Salam2002-06-182015-01-14transferred to Oman [27] [28]
00690 Ahmed Abdul Qader 2002-06-182015-01-14transferred to Estonia [27] [28]
00691Mohammed Ali Salem Al Zarnuki2002-06-182015-06-13transferred to Oman [29]
00692Ali Bin Ali Aleh2002-06-182009-09-26 ?
00693 Ali Abdullah Ahmed 2002-06-182006-06-10died in custody [ citation needed ]
00728Jamil Ahmed Said Nassir2002-08-052016-08-15transferred to the United Arab Emirates [25] [26]
00836 Ayoub Murshid Ali Saleh 2002-10-282016-08-15transferred to the United Arab Emirates [25] [26]
00837 Bashir Nashir Al-Marwalah 2002-10-282016-08-15transferred to the United Arab Emirates [25] [26]
00838 Shawki Awad Balzuhair 2002-10-282016-12-04transferred to Cape Verde. [39]
00839 Musab Omar Ali Al Mudwani 2002-10-282017-01-16transferred to Oman [21]
00840 Ha Il Aziz Ahmed Al Maythali 2002-10-282017-01-16transferred to Oman [21]
00841 Sa id Salih Sa id Nashir 2002-10-28 ?
01014Walid Mohammed Shahir2003-05-092004-03-31 ?
01015Hussein Salem Mohammed2003-05-092014-11-20 ?
01017Omar Mohammed Ali Al Rammah2003-05-09 ?
01453Sanad Ali Yislam Al-Kazimi2004-09-20 ?
01456 Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash 2004-09-20 ?
01457 Al Hajj Abdu Ali Sharqawi 2004-09-20 ?
01463 Abdul Al Salam Al Hilal 2004-09-20 ?
10013 Ramzi bin al-Shibh 2006-09-05 ?
10014 Walid bin 'Attash 2006-09-05 ?

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  27. 1 2 3 4 5 "Five Guantanamo Yemeni inmates sent to Oman and Estonia". BBC News. 2015-01-14. Archived from the original on 2015-01-15. The five men - in their 30s and 40s - were cleared for release since at least 2009, but US officials ruled out their return to Yemen, where the government is battling al-Qaeda rebels.
  28. 1 2 3 4 5 Margot Williams. "Guantanamo timeline 2015". The New York Times . Archived from the original on 2015-01-15.
  29. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Release No: NR-235-15, June 13, 2015, Detainee Transfer Announced". United States Department of Defense. 2015-06-13. Archived from the original on 2015-06-13. The United States is grateful to the Government of Oman for its humanitarian gesture and willingness to support ongoing U.S. efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. The United States coordinated with the Government of Oman to ensure these transfers took place consistent with appropriate security and humane treatment measures.
  30. Carol Rosenberg (2016-06-22). "Another Yemeni 'forever prisoner' at Guantánamo is cleared for release". Miami Herald . Archived from the original on 2016-06-03. Retrieved 2016-06-23.
  31. "Montenegro receives another person within humanitarian programme of re-socialisation of prisoners from Guantanamo". Government of Montenegro. 2016-06-22. Archived from the original on 2016-06-23.
  32. 1 2 3 4 Charlie Savage (2017-01-05). "4 Yemeni Detainees at Guantánamo Are Transferred to Saudi Arabia". New York Times . Washington DC . Retrieved 2017-01-05. The Pentagon announced on Thursday that it had transferred four Yemeni detainees from the wartime prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to Saudi Arabia, beginning an expected flurry of transfers in the waning days of the Obama administration.
  33. 1 2 3 4 5 Carol Rosenberg (2015-11-16). "U.S. sends 5 Guantánamo detainees to the United Arab Emirates". Miami Herald . With Congress pushing stricter restrictions on prisoner transfers, the Pentagon this weekend released five Yemenis from the prison camps at Guantánamo to resettle in the United Arab Emirates, one of the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. None of the captives had ever been charged with a crime.
  34. Carol Rosenberg (2016-07-10). "Guantánamo downsizes again — Yemeni goes to Italy for resettlement". Miami Herald . Archived from the original on 2016-07-11. Retrieved 2016-07-10. U.S. troops delivered a long-cleared Yemeni detainee to Italy over the weekend, the Pentagon disclosed Sunday, in a downsizing of the detention to 78 or fewer captives.
  35. "Yemeni Guantánamo Bay inmate transferred to Italy, US says". The Guardian . 2016-07-10. Archived from the original on 2016-07-10. Retrieved 2016-07-11. The United States said on Sunday it had transferred a Yemeni inmate from the Guantánamo Bay prison to Italy, bringing the number of detainees at the US naval base in Cuba to 78.
  36. While other sites state he was sent to Saudi Arabia, the New York Times reports his host country is unknown.
  37. Margot Williams (2008-11-03). "Guantanamo Docket: Tarek Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada". The New York Times . Retrieved 2016-04-17. He was transferred to an undetermined country on April 16, 2016.
  38. Margot Williams (18 May 2021). "Guantanamo timeline 2016". The New York Times .
  39. Charlie Savage (2016-12-04). "Guantánamo Detainee Is Sent to Cape Verde in First Transfer Since Trump Victory". New York Times . Retrieved 2016-12-04. Mr. Balzuhair is the second detainee that Cape Verde has resettled. In 2010, it took in a low-level detainee from Syria.

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