Salem Ahmed Hadi Explained

Salem Ahmed Hadi Bin Kanad
Birth Date: January 15, 1976[1] [2] [3]
Birth Place:Hadhramaut, Yemen
Detained At:Guantanamo
Id Number:131
Charge:no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
Status:transferred to Saudi Arabia on 2017-01-05
Children:2 daughters

Salem Ahmed Hadi Bin Kanad is a citizen of Yemen, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.His detainee ID number is 131.Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts reports that Hadi was born on January 15, 1976, in Hadhramaut, Yemen.

He was transferred to Saudi Arabia on January 5, 2017. The transfer of Hadi, and more than a dozen other men, in the closing days of the Barack Obama Presidency was seen as marking a key disagreement between Obama and President-elect Donald Trump, who favored expanding the camp.

Inconsistent identification

Salem was named inconsistently on the official lists:

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.[5] 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.[5] [6]

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:[7]

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Salem Ahmed Ben Kend's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 7 October 2004.[8] [9] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

Salem did not attend his 2005 Board hearing.[10] But a five-page summarized transcript recorded the discussion of his interview with his Assisting Military Officer.

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.[11] [12] His 9-page Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on April 8, 2008.It was signed by camp commandant Rear Admiral Mark H. Buzby. He recommended continued detention.

Joint Review Task Force

On January 20, 2009, newly elected President Barack Obama announced that he would try to empty the Guantanamo Bay Detention camps.He replaced the George W. Bush administration's annual OARDEC reviews, by military officers, reviews by high level officials from several government departments - the Joint Review Task Force, to be followed up by regular reviews by a Periodic Review Board.

The Joint Review Task Force's conclusion was that Hadi was too dangerous to release.

Periodic Review Board

A Periodic Review Board concluded, in May 2016, that Hadi could safely be transferred to another country.This was the fifth time his status had been considered by the Board.

Transfer to Saudi Arabia

Hadi, and three other individuals from Yemen, were transferred to Saudi Arabia on January 5, 2017 - in the closing weeks of Obama's second term.The men were not transferred back to Yemen, their home, because officials judged Yemen too unstable.

The Nigerian Vanguard noted that the final push of the Obama Presidency was in conflict with the incoming administration of Donald Trump to retain all the individuals held in Guantanamo, and to fill it up with additional individuals.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Archived copy . www.defenselink.mil . 5 February 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060928142736/http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf . 28 September 2006 . dead.
  2. Web site: JTF GTMO Detainee Profile. nyt.com. 16 August 2023.
  3. Web site: GTMO Detainee Profile. prs.mil. 23 January 2014. 31 August 2023.
  4. http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainees_list.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)
  5. 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..
  6. 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.
  7. News: The Current Detainee Population of Guantánamo: An Empirical Study . . 2008-12-16 . Benjamin Wittes, Zaathira Wyne . dead . 2017-01-06 . 2013-06-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130601150504/http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/reports/2008/12/16%20detainees%20wittes/1216_detainees_wittes.pdf.
  8. News: Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- redacted . 7 October 2004 . . 181–182 . . dead . 15 November 2006 . 31 July 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060731081044/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_mar05.pdf#page=181.
  9. Web site: Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Ben Kend, Salem Ahmed . 7 October 2004 . . 42–43 . . 2007-12-04 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071204194302/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000099-000196.pdf#page=42 . 4 December 2007.
  10. Web site: Summary of Administrative Review Board Proceedings of ISN. 2005. OARDEC. 153–157. United States Department of Defense. 2007-12-04. 2010-01-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20100114131719/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Transcript_Set_5_20000-20254.pdf#153. dead.
  11. 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..
  12. 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.

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