Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi Explained

Abdul Aziz Adbullah Ali Al Suadi
Birth Date:	16 June 1974
Birth Place:	Milhan, Yemen
Citizenship:	Yemen
Detained At:	Guantánamo Bay detainment camp
Id Number:	578
Status:	In-custody

Abdul Aziz Adbullah Ali Al Suadi is a Yemeni citizen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantánamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba, from May 3, 2002, to January 21, 2016.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 578.The Department of Defense reports that Al Suadi was born on June 16, 1974, in Milhan, Yemen.

He was the first captive to be sent to Montenegro.According to his lawyer David Remes, al-Suadi was one of the most westernized captives in Guantanamo. He mastered English there, and was getting high marks in the college courses in Mathematics he was taking by correspondence.

Inconsistent identification

Al Suadi's name was spelled inconsistently on the official documents the DoD has released.

• His name was spelled as Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi on the official lists released on April 20, 2006, and May 15, 2006.^[1]
• His name was spelled as Abdulaziz Adbullah Ali Al Suadi on the first page of the unclassified dossier released to the Associated Press in early 2005.^[2]
• His name was spelled as Abdul Aziz Alsuwedy on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his second annual Administrative Review Board in 2006.^[3]

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.^[4] 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.

Following the Supreme Court's ruling the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants.^{[4] [5]}

Scholars at the Brookings Institution, led by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives stillheld in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certaincommon allegations:^[6]

• Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... are members of Al Qaeda."^[6]
• Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... traveled to Afghanistan for jihad."^[6]
• Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi 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."^[6]
• Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... took military or terrorist training in Afghanistan."^[6]
• Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges that the following detainees were captured under circumstances that strongly suggest belligerency."^[6]
• Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi was listed as one of the captives who was a foreign fighter.^[6]
• Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi was listed as one of the captives who "say that they were doing charity work."^[6]

Although Al Suadi didn't attend his 2004 Combatant Status Review Tribunal, the brief handwritten notes his Personal Representative prepared were part of his dossier:^[7]

Al Suadi chose to participate in his 2005 Administrative Review Board hearing.^[8] In early 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a fifteen-page summarized transcript from his 2005 hearing.^[9]

A two-page Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for hissecond annual Administrative Review Board hearing.^[3]

Al Suadi said he would not attend his 2006 administrative review, unless he could hear and respond to the classified evidence against him.^[10] He drafted a statement to be read instead.

A three-page Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for histhird annual Administrative Review Board hearing.^[11]

Habeas corpus

A writ of habeas corpus, Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi v. United States, was submitted on Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi's behalf.^[12] In response, on October 1, 2004, the Department of Defense released 16 pages of unclassified documents related to his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi's enemy combatant status was confirmed by Tribunal panel 5.

Recorder Exhibit List

Recorder Exhibit List For ISN # 578! isn !! Title !! Support !! Classification

R1		N/A	Unclassified
R2		3.a.1.	Unclassified
R3	FBI 302 27-MAY-02	3.a.1. 3.a.2.	FOUO//LES
R4	000274 KB 08-JUN-02	3.a.1. 3.a.2.	SECRET
R5	IIR 6 034 1208 03	3.a.3.	SECRET//NOFORN
R6	CITF Memorandum 26-MAY-04	Summary	SECRET//NOFORN
R7	Terrorist-Related Locations and Facilities (Feb 24, 98)	3.a.3.	SECRET//NOFORN
R8		FYI	SECRET//NOFORN
R9		FYI	SECRET//NOFORN
R10	DOD JTF GTMO (unsigned-8-October-2004)	Summary	SECRET//NOFORN

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.^{[13] [14]} His ten-page Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on June 9, 2008.^[15] It was signed by camp commandant Rear Admiral David M. Thomas Jr.He recommended continued detention.

Further reading

• Web site: Measurements of Heights and Weights of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (ordered and consolidated version) . Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas, from DoD data . 2009-12-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100613004352/http://humanrights.ucdavis.edu/resources/library/documents-and-reports/gtmo_heightsweights.pdf . 2010-06-13.

Notes and References

1. Web site: List of detainees who went through complete CSRT process . . OARDEC . OARDEC . 2006-04-20 . 2008-07-26 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070930171245/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf . 2007-09-30.
2. http://wid.ap.org/documents/detainees/abdulalsuadi.pdf#1 OARDEC legal advisor's declaration (.pdf)
3. Web site: Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Alsuwedy, Abdul Aziz . United States Department of Defense. 2006-11-17. OARDEC. OARDEC. 2010-04-08.
4. News: U.S. military reviews 'enemy combatant' use . . 2007-10-11 . 2007-10-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071023220558/http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-10-11-guantanamo-combatants_N.htm . live . 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..
5. News: Q&A: What next for Guantanamo prisoners? . . 2002-01-21 . 2008-11-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081123204530/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1773140.stm . 23 November 2008 . live.
6. Web site: The Current Detainee Population of Guantánamo: An Empirical Study. The Brookings Institution. 2008-12-16. Benjamin Wittes. Benjamin Wittes. Zaathira Wyne. 2010-02-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20170519100934/https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/1216_detainees_wittes.pdf. 2017-05-19. live.
7. Web site: Detainee election form. 15. United States Department of Defense. 2004-09-03. OARDEC. OARDEC. 2010-04-08.
8. Web site: [{{DoD detainees ARB|ARB_Transcript_Set_7_20497-20750.pdf#207-221}} Summarized Administrative Review Board Detainee Statement ]. . . 2010-03-16 . 207–221 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150627102844/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/Reading_Room/Detainee_Related/ARB_Transcript_Set_7_20497-20750.pdf . 2015-06-27 .
9. News: US releases Guantanamo files. The Age. April 4, 2006. 2008-03-15.
10. Web site: Translation oral statement ISN 578. United States Department of Defense. 2006-11-30. OARDEC. OARDEC. 2010-04-08.
11. Web site: Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Alsuwedy, Abdul Aziz . United States Department of Defense. 2007-12-27. OARDEC. OARDEC. 2010-04-08.
12. Web site: Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi v. United States. October 1, 2004. 1–16. United States Department of Defense. 2008-03-27.
13. News: 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 . . 2011-04-27 . 2012-07-13 . Christopher Hope . Robert Winnett . Holly Watt . Heidi Blake . 2012-07-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120715015806/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8471907/WikiLeaks-Guantanamo-Bay-terrorist-secrets-revealed.html . live . 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. .
14. News: WikiLeaks: The Guantánamo files database. The Telegraph (UK). 2011-04-27. 2012-07-10. 2015-06-26. 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. dead.
15. News: Abd Al Aziz Abduh Abdallah Ali Al Suwaydi: Guantanamo Bay detainee file on Abd Al Aziz Abduh Abdallah Ali Al Suwaydi, US9YM-000578DP, passed to the Telegraph by Wikileaks. The Telegraph (UK). 2011-04-27. 2016-02-09.