Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid Explained

Mahmud Abd Al Aziz al-Mujahid
Birth Date:[1] [2]
Birth Place:Taiz, Yemen
Date Of Release:2016-08-15
Place Of Release:United Arab Emirates
Citizenship:Yemen
Detained At:Guantanamo
Id Number:31
Charge:extrajudicial detention

Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid is a Yemeni citizen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camp, in Cuba, for over fourteen and a half years, from January 11, 2002, to August 15, 2016.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 31.Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts report that he was born in August 1980, in Taiz, Yemen.

He arrived in the first cohort of twenty individuals who opened the prison. The Guantanamo Joint Review Task Force classed him as a "forever prisoner", in 2009.He was transferred to United Arab Emirates, with fourteen other men, on August 15, 2016.

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.[3] 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.[3] [4]

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:[5]

Al Mujahid chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunals.[6]

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.[7] [8] His ten-page Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on March 8, 2008.[9] It was signed by camp commandant Rear Admiral Mark H. Buzby. He recommended continued detention.

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/82829-isn-31-mahmoud-abd-al-aziz-abd-al-mujahid-jtf/3fe56a764055ca09/full.pdf
  2. https://www.prs.mil/Portals/60/Documents/ISN031/130820_U_ISN031_GOVERNMENT'S_UNCLASSIFIED_SUMMARY_PUBLIC.pdf?ver=cf3ZBDiRpLKRSJEJohzTrQ%3d%3d
  3. 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..
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. News: Summarized detainee statement. OARDEC. 2004. 23. 2016-08-17.
  7. 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. .
  8. 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.
  9. News: Guantanamo Bay detainee file on Mahmud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Wali Al Mujahid, US9YM-000031DP, passed to the Telegraph by Wikileaks . The Telegraph (UK). 2011-04-27. 2016-08-17.

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