Hassan bin Attash explained

Hassan Muhammad Salih bin Attash
Birth Date:[1] [2]
Birth Place:Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Date Of Arrest:September 11, 2002
Place Of Arrest:Karachi
Arresting Authority:Pakistani security officials, CIA
Citizenship:Saudi Arabia
Detained At:Guantanamo, previously held in "the dark prison"
Id Number:1456
Alias:Hassan Muhammad Ali Bin Attash
Charge:Extrajudicial detention
Status:Still held in Guantanamo
Occupation:student

Hassan Muhammad Salih bin Attash (Arabic: حسن محمد علي بن عطاش) is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, held by the United States in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.[3] Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate that bin Attash was born in 1985, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

As of January 2020, Hassan Muhammad Salih bin Attash has been held at Guantanamo for over fifteen years.[4]

Attash was seventeen years old when he was captured.[5] [6] Hassan is the brother of Walid bin Attash, who has also been described as an inmate in the CIA's network of secret prisons.[7] Hassan, too, claims he spent time in the other prisons, including "the dark prison", prior to being detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.[8]

Human Rights Concern

The circumstances of Hassan bin Attash have triggered the attention of several human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, Reprieve and Human Rights Watch.[9] [10] [11] According to their accounts Hassan bin Attash was captured on September 10, 2002, spent time in the dark prison, spent sixteen months in Jordan, where he was hung upside down, and beaten on the soles of his feet, which were then immersed in salt water. They assert that he underwent this kind of questioning until he was willing to sign anything. They claim that he wasn't interrogated about anything he himself had done, but rather about the activity of his older brother. They assert that his 70-year-old father underwent similar questioning. Bin Attash was flown to Guantanamo in March 2003.

The Boston Globe quoted Guantanamo spokesmen Lieutenant commander Chito Peppler, who insisted, "US policy requires all detainees to be treated humanely,"[11]

Peppler repeated the assertion that none of the captive's assertions of abuse were credible because al-Qaeda trained operatives to lie about abuse.[11]

Transportation to Guantanamo Bay

Human Rights group Reprieve reports that flight records show two captives namedAl-Sharqawi and Hassan bin Attash were flown from Kabul in September 2002.The two men were flown aboard N379P, a plane suspected to be part of the CIA's ghost fleet.Flight records showed that the plane originally departed from Diego Garcia, stopped in Morocco, Portugal, then Kabul before landing in Guantánamo Bay.[12]

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.[13] 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.[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 was justified by certain common allegations:[15]

Habeas corpus

A writ of habeas corpus was filed on behalf of Bin Attash.[16]

Joint Review Task Force

On January 21, 2009, the day he was inaugurated, United States President Barack Obama issued three executive orders related to the detention of individuals in Guantanamo Bay detention camp.[17] [18] [19] [20] That new review system was composed of officials from six departments, where the OARDEC reviews were conducted entirely by the Department of Defense. When it reported back, a year later, the Guantanamo Review Task Force classified some individuals as too dangerous to be transferred from Guantanamo, even though there was insufficient evidence to justify charging them. On April 9, 2013, that document was made public after a Freedom of Information Act request.[21] Hassan bin Attash was one of the 71 individuals deemed unable to be charged due to insufficient evidence, but too dangerous to release.Obama said those deemed unable to be charged due to insufficient evidence, but too dangerous to release would start to receive reviews from a Periodic Review Board.

Periodic Review Board

The first review wasn't convened until November 20, 2013., 29 individuals had reviews, but Hassan bin Attash wasn't one of them. Bin Attash was approved for transfer on April 13, 2022.[22]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: JTF-GTMO Detainee Assessment . Department of Defense . 2022-11-12 . 2008-06-25.
  2. Web site: Guantanamo Detainee Profile ISN:SA-1456 . 2022-11-12 . 2016-03-28.
  3. Web site: List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006. OARDEC. United States Department of Defense. May 15, 2006. 2007-09-29.
  4. News: Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash - The Guantánamo Docket. The New York Times . 18 May 2021 .
  5. http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7880 Kids of Guantanamo
  6. Web site: WikiLeaks and the 22 Children of Guantánamo | Andy Worthington. July 21, 2019.
  7. http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/11/30/usdom12109.htm List of “Ghost Prisoners” Possibly in CIA Custody
  8. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HRW/05bee6d5f916310a6f68909e2e67ecf7.htm U.S. Operated Secret 'Dark Prison' in Kabul
  9. http://web.amnesty.org/pages/stoptorture-061120-features-eng Guantánamo: pain and distress for thousands of children
  10. http://www.reprieve.org.uk/press_germanyusedforrendition_06_10_06.htm Reprieve uncovers evidence indicating German territory may have been used in rendition and abuse
  11. News: Stockman . Farah . April 26, 2006 . 7 detainees report transfer to nations that use torture . . . dead . June 5, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060619221533/http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/04/26/7_detainees_report_transfer_to_nations_that_use_torture/ . June 19, 2006.
  12. News: Fresh questions on torture flights spark demands for inquiry. The Guardian. Richard Norton-Taylor, Duncan Campbell. March 10, 2008. 2008-03-17. Flight plan records show that one of the aircraft, registered N379P, flew in September 2002 from Diego Garcia to Morocco. From there it flew to Portugal and then to Kabul. Passenger names have been blacked out. However, Reprieve, which represents prisoners faced with the death penalty and torture, said that in Kabul the aircraft picked up Al-Sharqawi and Hassan bin Attash, two suspects who were tortured in Jordan before being rendered to Afghanistan and flown to Guantánamo Bay. Those rendered through Diego Garcia remain unidentified. In a letter to Miliband, Clive Stafford Smith, Reprieve's legal director, said: 'It is certainly not going to rebuild public confidence if we say that two people were illegally taken through British territory but then refuse to reveal the fates of these men.'. London.
  13. 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..
  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 . live.
  15. News: The Current Detainee Population of Guantánamo: An Empirical Study . . 2008-12-16 . Benjamin Wittes, Zaathira Wyne . 2010-02-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130601150504/http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/reports/2008/12/16%20detainees%20wittes/1216_detainees_wittes.pdf . 2013-06-01.
  16. Web site: Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation: Doc 152 -- STATUS REPORT . . . 2008-07-18 . 2008-09-23 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20110917192657/http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/district-of-columbia/dcdce/1:2008mc00442/131990/152/0.pdf . 2011-09-17.
  17. News: Who Are the 55 Cleared Guantánamo Prisoners on the List Released by the Obama Administration?. Andy Worthington. 2012-10-25. 2015-02-19. I have already discussed at length the profound injustice of holding Shawali Khan and Abdul Ghani, in articles here and here, and noted how their cases discredit America, as Khan, against whom no evidence of wrongdoing exists, nevertheless had his habeas corpus petition denied, and Ghani, a thoroughly insignificant scrap metal merchant, was put forward for a trial by military commission — a war crimes trial — under President Bush..
  18. Web site: Andy Worthington. Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Guantánamo?. June 11, 2010. July 21, 2010. June 16, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100616161842/http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/06/11/does-obama-really-know-or-care-about-who-is-at-guantanamo. dead.
  19. News: Justice task force recommends about 50 Guantanamo detainees be held indefinitely . Peter Finn . Washington Post . January 22, 2010 . July 21, 2010 . 2015-05-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150504225142/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/21/AR2010012104936.html . live.
  20. News: Most Guantanamo detainees low-level fighters, task force report says . Peter Finn . Washington Post . May 29, 2010 . July 21, 2010 . 2015-05-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150510052105/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/28/AR2010052803873.html . live.
  21. News: 71 Guantanamo Detainees Determined Eligible to Receive a Periodic Review Board as of April 19, 2013. Joint Review Task Force. 2013-04-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150519230955/https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1020057-guantanamo-parole-list.html. 2015-05-19. 2015-05-18. live .
  22. Web site: Unclassified Summary of Final Determination . 2022-11-12 . 2022-04-13.

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