Khalid Mohammed Salih Al Dhuby Explained

Khalid Mohammed Salih Al Dhuby
Date Of Release:2016-01-17
Id Number:506
Status:transferred to Ghana in January 2016

Khalid Mohammed Salih Al Dhuby is a citizen of Yemen, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba for almost fourteen years.[1] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 506.American intelligence analysts estimate that Al Dhuby was born in 1981, in Ta'if, Saudi Arabia.

He was first recommended for release in 2006.He was transferred to Ghana with fellow Yemeni Mahmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef on January 7, 2016. The pair were the first individuals to be transferred to a sub-Saharan nation of which they were not a citizen.

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.[2] 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.[2] [3]

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:[4]

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.[5] [6] His 9-page Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on December 25, 2006.[7] It was signed by camp commandant Rear Admiral Harry B Harris Jr.He recommended transfer to another country.

Transfer to Ghana

Al Dhudy and Mohammed Bin Atef were transferred to Ghana on January 7, 2016.The transfer stirred controversy, within Ghana.

See also: Gitmo detainees Ghana transfer controversy.

Eventually it became known that the government of Ghana had assured the USA that they would prevent the men from leaving Ghana for two years.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006. United States Department of Defense. 2006-05-15.
  2. 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..
  3. News: Q&A: What next for Guantanamo prisoners? . . 2002-01-21 . dead . 2009-02-07 . 2008-11-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081123204530/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1773140.stm.
  4. 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.
  5. 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..
  6. News: WikiLeaks: The Guantánamo files database . . 2011-04-27 . dead . 2018-04-05 . 2011-04-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110429040459/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/guantanamo-bay-wikileaks-files/8476672/WikiLeaks-The-Guantanamo-files-database.html.
  7. News: Khaled Muhammad Salih Al Dhuby: Guantanamo Bay detainee file on Khaled Muhammad Salih Al Dhuby, US9YM-000506DP, passed to the Telegraph by Wikileaks. The Telegraph (UK). 2011-04-27. 2016-07-09.

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