Abdul Latif Nasir Explained

Abdul Latif Nasir
Birth Date:4 March 1965[1] [2]
Detained At:Guantanamo (released July 19, 2021)
Id Number:244
Charge:None
Status:Released

Abdul Latif Nasir (Arabic: عبد اللطيف ناصر) is a Moroccan man formerly held in administrative detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[3] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 244.Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts report he was born on March 4, 1965, in Casablanca, Morocco. Abdul Latif Nasir and Sufyian Barhoumi tried to file emergency requests to be transferred from Guantanamo in the final days of Barack Obama's presidency.

His story was covered on a podcast by Radiolab, called The Other Latif, which was hosted by the similarly named Latif Nasser.

He was released on July 19, 2021, as part of an effort by the Biden administration to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.[4]

Inconsistent identification

Nasser was identified inconsistently on official Department of Defense documents:

Life in Guantanamo

Nasir was captured in Afghanistan in the fall of 2001 by fighters of the Northern Alliance. His attorneys claimed he was given to the US Military for a bounty. He was transferred to Guantanamo in 2002.[12] In Guantanamo, he compiled a 2000 word Arabic to English, English to Arabic dictionary.

Official status reviews

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.[13] In 2004 the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that Guantanamo captives were entitled to be informed of the allegations against them, and were entitled to challenge their detention.

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.[13] [14]

Scholars at the Brookings Institution, led by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention without charges was justified by evidence of common allegations:[15]

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.[16] [17] His 15-page Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on October 22, 2008.[18] It was signed by camp commandant Rear Admiral David M. Thomas Jr. He recommended continued detention.

Guantanamo Joint Review Task Force

Carol Rosenberg, of the Miami Herald worked for years to get the Department of Defense to release its classification of the remaining captives. In 2013 she was able to learn that Abdul Latif Nasser was one of 48 captives for whom there was no evidence for being held, and who officials nevertheless regarded as too potentially dangerous to release -- "forever prisoners".

Status during the Trump administration

President Barack Obama's administration pushed to transfer as many individuals from Guantanamo as possible during his last year. The Washington Post reported that Abdul Latif Nasir was one of five individuals who had been cleared for release, but remained in Guantanamo when President Donald Trump was inaugurated.

In 2020, Latif's case was covered by the Radiolab podcast in a series titled "The Other Latif", reported by a journalist having the same name, which attracted attention.[19]

Release

On July 19, 2021, he was released and repatriated to Morocco.[20] He had been recommended for discharge since 2016. Nasser's family members in Casablanca pledged to support him by finding him work in his brother's swimming pool cleaning business, according to his lawyer Thomas Anthony Durkin. He was detained for 19 years and was never charged.[21]

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/82550-isn-244-abdul-latif-nasir-jtf-gtmo-detainee/72ffc915d13c3dc6/full.pdf Abdul Latif Nasir Detainee
  2. https://www.prs.mil/Portals/60/Documents/ISN244/20160301_U_ISN_244_GOVERNMENTS_UNCLASSIFIED_SUMMARY_PUBLIC.pdf Detainee Assessment
  3. Web site: List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006. OARDEC. OARDEC. United States Department of Defense. May 15, 2006. 2007-09-29.
  4. News: Rosenberg. Carol. Savage. Charlie. July 19, 2021. Biden Administration Transfers Its First Detainee From Guantánamo Bay. en-US. The New York Times. July 19, 2021. 0362-4331.
  5. Web site: Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Nasir, Abdul Latif . 21 November 2005 . 1–6 . OARDEC . OARDEC . . 2008-03-03 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071214105112/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000295-000393.pdf#1 . 14 December 2007.
  6. Web site: Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal - Nasir, Abdul Latif . 29 November 2004 . OARDEC . OARDEC . 74–75 . . 2008-02-01 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071211094621/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000201-000299.pdf#74 . 11 December 2007.
  7. Web site: List of detainee who went through complete CSRT process . OARDEC . OARDEC . . April 20, 2006 . 2007-09-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070930171245/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf . September 30, 2007.
  8. Web site: Index for Combatant Status Review Board unclassified summaries of evidence . OARDEC . OARDEC . . July 17, 2007 . 2007-09-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071203004259/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_CSRT_unclassified_summaries.pdf . December 3, 2007.
  9. Web site: Index to Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round One . OARDEC . OARDEC . . August 9, 2007 . 2007-09-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071026130459/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_1_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf . October 26, 2007.
  10. Web site: Index of Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round Two . OARDEC . OARDEC . . July 17, 2007 . 2007-09-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071026130524/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_2_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf . October 26, 2007.
  11. Web site: Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Nasser, Abdulatif . 17 October 2006 . 93–96 . OARDEC . OARDEC . . 2008-03-01 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071204203031/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_299-398.pdf#93 . 4 December 2007.
  12. Web site: Abdul Latif Nasser Released from Guantanamo After 19 Years of Detention Without Charge . 19 July 2021 .
  13. News: U.S. military reviews 'enemy combatant' use . . . October 11, 2007 . October 23, 2007 . 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..
  14. 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 . dead.
  15. 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.
  16. 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..
  17. 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.
  18. News: Abdul Latif Nasir: Guantanamo Bay detainee file on Abdul Latif Nasir, US9MO-000244DP, passed to the Telegraph by Wikileaks. The Telegraph (UK). 2011-04-27. 2017-01-17.
  19. News: Messman. Lauren. 'Radiolab' Covers Guantánamo Bay Detainee in First Serialized Story. 2020-02-03. The New York Times. 2020-03-10. en-US. 0362-4331.
  20. Web site: Jaffe. Dino Hazell and Alexandra. 2021-07-19. Guantanamo inmate sent to home country in Biden policy shift. 2021-07-19. CTVNews. en.
  21. News: Rosenberg . Carol . Savage . Charlie . Biden Administration Transfers Its First Detainee From Guantánamo Bay . The New York Times . 19 July 2021.

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