Al Sabri's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 324.
American intelligence analysts estimated Al Sabri was born in 1978, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Official status reviews
Originally the Bush Presidency asserted that captives apprehended in the "war on terror" were not covered by the Geneva Conventions, and could be held indefinitely, without charge, and without an open and transparent review of the justifications for their detention.[1]
In 2004 the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that Guantanamo captives were entitled to being informed of the allegations justifying their detention, and were entitled to try to refute them.
Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants
Following the Supreme Court's ruling the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants.[1][4]
Scholars at the Brookings Institution, lead by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still
held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain
common allegations:[5]
- Mashur Abdallah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... associated with either" the Taliban or al Qaeda.[5]
- Mashur Abdallah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... traveled to Afghanistan for jihad."[5]
- Mashur Abdallah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges that the following detainees stayed in Al Qaeda, Taliban or other guest- or safehouses."[5]
- Mashur Abdallah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... fought for the Taliban."[5]
- Mashur Abdallah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... were at Tora Bora."[5]
- Mashur Abdallah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri was listed as one of the captives whose "names or aliases were found on material seized in raids on Al Qaeda safehouses and facilities."[5]
- Mashur Abdallah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri was listed as one of the captives who was an "al Qaeda operative".[5]
- Mashur Abdallah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri was listed as one of the "82 detainees made no statement to CSRT or ARB tribunals or made statements that do not bear materially on the military’s allegations against them."[5]
Formerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment
On April 25, 2011, whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts.[6][7]
His 12-page Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on September 15, 2008.[8]
It was signed by camp commandant Rear Admiral David M. Thomas Jr.
He recommended continued detention.
Transfer to Saudi Arabia
Al Sabri and eight other Yemenis were transferred to Saudi Arabia on April 16, 2016.[19][20][21]
They will go through the Saudi rehabilitation program.
References
1. ^1 {{cite news |url = https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-10-11-guantanamo-combatants_N.htm |title = U.S. military reviews 'enemy combatant' use |publisher = USA Today |date = 2007-10-11 |archivedate = 2012-08-11 |archiveurl = https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fnews%2Fwashington%2F2007-10-11-guantanamo-combatants_N.htm&date=2012-08-11 |deadurl = no |quote = Critics called it an overdue acknowledgment that the so-called Combatant Status Review Tribunals are unfairly geared toward labeling detainees the enemy, even when they pose little danger. Simply redoing the tribunals won't fix the problem, they said, because the system still allows coerced evidence and denies detainees legal representation. |df = }}
2. ^[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/08/national/08gitmo.html?ex=1257570000&en=4af06725bdf5c086&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt Guantánamo Prisoners Getting Their Day, but Hardly in Court], New York Times, November 11, 2004 - mirror {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930184542/http://cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=3838 |date=2007-09-30 }}
3. ^Inside the Guantánamo Bay hearings: Barbarian "Justice" dispensed by KGB-style "military tribunals", Financial Times, December 11, 2004
4. ^{{cite news |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1773140.stm |title = Q&A: What next for Guantanamo prisoners? |publisher = BBC News |date = 2002-01-21 |accessdate = 2008-11-24 |quote = |archiveurl = https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F2%2Fhi%2Famericas%2F1773140.stm&date=2008-11-24 |archivedate = 24 November 2008 |deadurl = yes |df = }}
5. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 {{cite news |url = http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/reports/2008/12/16%20detainees%20wittes/1216_detainees_wittes.pdf |title = The Current Detainee Population of Guantánamo: An Empirical Study |publisher = The Brookings Institution |date = 2008-12-16 |author = Benjamin Wittes, Zaathira Wyne |accessdate = 2010-02-16 |deadurl = yes |archiveurl = https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brookings.edu%2F%7E%2Fmedia%2Fresearch%2Ffiles%2Freports%2F2008%2F12%2F16%2520detainees%2520wittes%2F1216_detainees_wittes.pdf&date=2012-06-22 |archivedate = 2012-06-22 |df = }}
6. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8471907/WikiLeaks-Guantanamo-Bay-terrorist-secrets-revealed.html |title=WikiLeaks: Guantanamo Bay terrorist secrets revealed -- Guantanamo Bay has been used to incarcerate dozens of terrorists who have admitted plotting terrifying attacks against the West – while imprisoning more than 150 totally innocent people, top-secret files disclose |publisher=The Telegraph (UK) |date=2011-04-27 |accessdate=2012-07-13 |author1=Christopher Hope |author2=Robert Winnett |author3=Holly Watt |author4=Heidi Blake |archivedate=2012-07-13 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworldnews%2Fwikileaks%2F8471907%2FWikiLeaks-Guantanamo-Bay-terrorist-secrets-revealed.html&date=2012-07-13 |deadurl=no |quote=The Daily Telegraph, along with other newspapers including The Washington Post, today exposes America’s own analysis of almost ten years of controversial interrogations on the world’s most dangerous terrorists. This newspaper has been shown thousands of pages of top-secret files obtained by the WikiLeaks website. |df= }}
7. ^{{cite news| url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/guantanamo-bay-wikileaks-files/8476672/WikiLeaks-The-Guantanamo-files-database.html| title = WikiLeaks: The Guantánamo files database| publisher = The Telegraph (UK)| date = 2011-04-27| accessdate = 2012-07-10| archivedate = 2015-06-26| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150626204100/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/guantanamo-bay-wikileaks-files/8476672/WikiLeaks-The-Guantanamo-files-database.html| deadurl = no}}
8. ^{{cite news| url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/guantanamo-bay-wikileaks-files/8477515/Guantanamo-Bay-detainee-file-on-Mashur-Abdullah-Muqbil-Ahmed-Al-Sabri-US9YM-000324DP.html | title = Mashur Abdullah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri: Guantanamo Bay detainee file on Mashur Abdullah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri, US9YM-000324DP, passed to the Telegraph by Wikileaks| publisher = The Telegraph (UK)| date = 2011-04-27| page = | accessdate = 2016-07-09| quote = }}
9. ^1 {{cite news | url = http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/04/yemeni-guantanamo-inmates-saudi-arabia-160416214703243.html| title = US sends nine Yemeni Guantanamo inmates to Saudi Arabia| publisher = Al Jazeera| date = 2016-04-16| page = | location = | accessdate = 2016-04-17| quote = The United States has transferred nine Yemeni men to Saudi Arabia from the US military prison at Guantanamo, including an inmate who had been on a hunger strike since 2007, US officials said.}}
10. ^1 {{cite news | url = http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/16/politics/guantanamo-detainees-transfer/| title = Nine Guantanamo detainees transferred to Saudi Arabia| publisher = CNN| author = Steve Almasy, Tom Kludt| date = 2016-04-16| page = | location = | accessdate = 2016-04-17| quote = It also comes ahead of Obama's planned trip to Saudi Arabia next week.}}
11. ^1 {{cite news | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/16/us-transfers-nine-yemeni-inmates-from-guantanamo-to-saudi-arabia/| title = US transfers nine Yemeni inmates from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia as closure programme accelerated| publisher = The Telegraph| date = 2016-04-16| page = | location = | accessdate = 2016-04-17| quote = Saturday's release marks the largest transfer since 10 Yemenis were sent to Oman in January. It is the first time Saudi Arabia has taken any former Guantanamo inmates.}}
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