Mohammed Ahmad Said Al Edah Explained

Mohammed Ahmad Said Al Edah
Citizenship:Yemeni
Id Number:33
Place Of Arrest:Pakistani border
Arresting Authority:Pakistani border guard
Date Of Release:2016-08-15
Alias:Muhammad Ahmad Said al-Adahi
Charge:No charge (extrajudicial detention)
Status:transferred
Occupation:Yemeni soldier (1982), worked at a Yemeni oil refinery

Mohammed Ahmad Said Al Edah is a citizen of Yemen who was held in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba, for fourteen and a half years.[1] His Internment Serial Number is 33.Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate he was born in 1962, in Hay al-Turbawi Ta'iz, Yemen.

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.[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]

Al Edah chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[5]

Al Edah attended his 2005 status review.

Mohammed Ahmad Said Al Edah v. George W. Bush

Twenty-nine pages from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal were made public, on July 13, 2005, when a writ of habeas corpus was filed on his behalf.[6]

Carol Rosenberg, writing in the Miami Herald, reported that US District Court Judge Gladys Kessler ordered his release on August 17, 2009.[7] Al Edah's habeas hearing lasted three days, much of it was held in camera, so Kessler could hear classified evidence.Rosenberg interviewed Kristin Wilhelm and Richard G. Murphy Jr., two of Al Adahi's defense attorneys. They said that Al Adahi had secured affidavits from other captives who had falsely denounced him.

Al Edah testified that his watch had a traditional analog face—with hands.[7]

Revealed during the hearing was that Al Edah is suffering from heart disease, and that he had been offered heart surgery by camp medical officials.[7]

In December 2009, Kessler cited the Department of Defense for contempt of court.[8] [9] She had ordered the Department of Defense to record his merits hearing, but this was not done. Officials asserted the lapse was "due to oversight and miscommunication."The Government is appealing Kessler's decision.

U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler ordered his release in late August 2009.[10] [11] After an examination of the classified evidence she concluded "brief attendance at Al Farouq and eventual expulsion simply do not bring him within the ambit of the Executive's power to detain."

The Department of Justice initiated an appeal of Kessler's release order on September 22, 2009.[12] [13]

On July 13, 2010, the decision to release Mohammed Ahmad Said Al Edah was reversed on appeal.[14]

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.[15] [16] His eleven-page Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on April 1, 2008.[17] It was signed by camp commandant Rear Admiral Mark H. Buzby. He recommended continued detention.

External links

Notes and References

  1. 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 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100613004352/http://humanrights.ucdavis.edu/resources/library/documents-and-reports/gtmo_heightsweights.pdf . 2010-06-13 . dead.
  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 . 2008-11-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081123204530/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1773140.stm . 23 November 2008 . live.
  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. http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_28_1949-2000.pdf#22 Summarized transcripts (.pdf)
  6. News: Mohammed Ahmad Said Al Edah v. George W. Bush . 1–29 . . OARDEC . OARDEC . 30 October 2004 . 2007-11-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071204202227/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/publicly_filed_CSRT_records_191-236.pdf#1 . 2007-12-04 . dead.
  7. News: Judge orders release of Yemeni from Guantánamo . 2009-08-18 . Carol Rosenberg . Carol Rosenberg . . https://archive.today/20240524112342/https://www.webcitation.org/5j8WFmz47?url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1191864.html . 2024-05-24 . 2009-08-19 . dead.
  8. News: Federal judge finds Pentagon in contempt for failing to record Guantanamo testimony . . 2009-12-10 . Jaclyn Belczyk . https://web.archive.org/web/20091220230437/http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/12/federal-judge-finds-pentagon-in.php . 2009-12-20 . dead.
  9. News: Judge finds Pentagon in contempt in Gitmo case . . 2009-12-10 . https://archive.today/20240524195017/https://www.webcitation.org/5m6as6bc4?url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jiU5cU3FJ8zNc-hV6xmfGWBBfMlwD9CGK7B00 . 2024-05-24 . dead.
  10. News: Judge orders release of Yemeni from Guantánamo . https://archive.today/20240524112456/https://www.webcitation.org/5jCrEI07z?url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1192169.html . 2024-05-24 . 2009-08-21 . . Carol Rosenberg . Carol Rosenberg . 2009-08-19 . dead.
  11. News: Judge Orders Release of Yemeni Prisoner From Guantanamo . https://web.archive.org/web/20121108165757/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/21/AR2009082103333.html?hpid=topnews . 2012-11-08 . 2009-08-21 . . Del Quentin Wilber . dead.
  12. News: Obama Administration Appeals Judge's Order to Release Gitmo Detainee (sic) . 2009-09-21 . Daphne Eviatar . Daphne Eviatar . . https://web.archive.org/web/20100102092356/http://washingtonindependent.com/60369/obama-administration-appeals-judges-order-to-relase-gitmo-detainee . 2010-01-02 . dead.
  13. News: U.S. appeals judge's order to free Yemeni from Guantánamo . 2009-09-22 . Carol Rosenberg . Carol Rosenberg . . http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20091007171353/http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking%2Dnews/story/1245858.html . 2009-10-07 . dead . 2009-09-22.
  14. News: Reversal Upholds Detention of Yemeni at Guantánamo. 2010-07-13. Charlie Savage. Charlie Savage (author). The New York Times.
  15. 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. .
  16. 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.
  17. News: Guantanamo Bay detainee file on Muhammad Ahmad Said Al Adahi, US9YM-000033DP, passed to the Telegraph by Wikileaks . The Telegraph (UK). 2011-04-27. 2016-08-17.

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