Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel Explained

Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel
Id Number:	498
Charge:	No charge
Status:	Transferred to Oman on 2017-01-16

Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel is a citizen of Yemen, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.^[1] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 498.Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate that he was born in 1978, in Ta'iz, Yemen.

He was transferred to Oman with nine other men, on January 16, 2017.

Inconsistent identification

Haidel was identified inconsistently on official Department of Defense documents:

• He was identified as Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on October 8, 2004.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}
• He was identified as Mohammed Mohammed Ahmen Said on the Summary of Evidence memos prepared for his first and second annual Administrative Review Board hearings, on September 28, 2005, and June 7, 2006.^{[8] [9]}

Press reports

On July 12, 2006, the magazine Mother Jones provided excerpts from the transcripts of a selection of the Guantanamo detainees.^[10] Haidel was one of the detainees profiled. According to the article, his transcript contained the following comment:

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.^[11] 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.^{[11] [12]}

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:^[13]

• Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel was listed as one of the captives who(m):

• "The military alleges ... are associated with both Al Qaeda and the Taliban."^[13]

• "The military alleges ... traveled to Afghanistan for jihad."^[13]

• "The military alleges that the following detainees stayed in Al Qaeda, Taliban or other guest- or safehouses."^[13]

• "The military alleges ... took military or terrorist training in Afghanistan."^[13]

• "The military alleges ... fought for the Taliban."^[13]

• "The military alleges ... were at Tora Bora."^[13]

• was a foreign fighter.^[13]
• Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel was listed as one of the "82 detainees made no statement to CSRT or ARB tribunals or made statements that do not bear materially on the military's allegations against them."^[13]

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on October 8, 2004.^[14]

Haidel chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.^[15] On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a three-page summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.^[16]

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. PDF. OARDEC. OARDEC. United States Department of Defense. May 15, 2006. 2007-09-29.
2. Web site: List of detainee who went through complete CSRT process. PDF. OARDEC. OARDEC. United States Department of Defense. 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.
3. Web site: Index for Combatant Status Review Board unclassified summaries of evidence. PDF. OARDEC. OARDEC. United States Department of Defense. 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.
4. Web site: Index for testimony. PDF. OARDEC. OARDEC. United States Department of Defense. September 4, 2007. 2007-09-29. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20071203004301/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_CSRT_detainees_testimony.pdf. December 3, 2007.
5. Web site: Index to Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round One. PDF. OARDEC. OARDEC. United States Department of Defense. 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.
6. Web site: Index of Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round Two. PDF. OARDEC. OARDEC. United States Department of Defense. 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.
7. Web site: Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Haidel, Mohammed Ahmed Said (published September 2007). 8 October 2004. 26–27. OARDEC. OARDEC. United States Department of Defense. 2008-04-21. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20071203003522/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000400-000499.pdf#26. 3 December 2007.
8. Web site: Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Said, Mohammed Mohammed Ahmen. 28 September 2005. 60–61. OARDEC. OARDEC. United States Department of Defense. 2008-04-21. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20080510104113/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000394-000494.pdf#60. 10 May 2008.
9. Web site: Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Said, Mohammed Mohammed Ahmen. 7 June 2006. 82–84. OARDEC. OARDEC. United States Department of Defense. 2008-04-21. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20161013173047/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_499-598.pdf#82. 13 October 2016.
10. http://motherjones.com/news/feature/2006/07/detainee_sidebar.html "Why Am I in Cuba?"
11. News: U.S. military reviews 'enemy combatant' use. USA Today. 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..
12. News: Q&A: What next for Guantanamo prisoners?. BBC News. 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.
13. 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.
14. Web site: Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal. March 2005. 8 October 2004. 103–104. OARDEC. OARDEC. United States Department of Defense. 2008-04-21. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20060731081044/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_mar05.pdf#103. 31 July 2006.
15. Web site: Summarized Statement. 9–11. OARDEC. OARDEC. United States Department of Defense. 2008-04-21. 2016-11-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20161105133740/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/Reading_Room/Detainee_Related/Set_31_2145-2265.pdf#9. dead.
16. News: US releases Guantanamo files. The Age. April 4, 2006. 2008-03-15.