Salman Rabeii Explained
| Salman Yahya Hassan Muhammad Rabeii |
| Birth Date: | 30 June 1979[1] [2] |
| Birth Place: | Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
| Date Of Arrest: | late 2001 |
| Place Of Arrest: | official accounts differ |
| Arresting Authority: | official accounts differ |
| Citizenship: | Yemen |
| Detained At: | Guantanamo |
| Id Number: | 508 |
| Charge: | extrajudicial detention |
| Status: | Transferred to Oman |
Salman Yahya Hassan Muhammad Rabeii (born June 30, 1979) 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 was 508.
Rabeii was cleared for release on December 1, 2016. He was transferred to Oman with nine other men, on January 16, 2017.
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 stillheld in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certaincommon allegations:[5]
- Salman Yahya Hassan Muhammad Rabeii was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... took military or terrorist training in Afghanistan."[5]
- Salman Yahya Hassan Muhammad Rabeii was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... were at Tora Bora."[5]
- Salman Yahya Hassan Muhammad Rabeii was listed as one of the captives whose "names or aliases were found on material seized in raids on Al Qaeda safehouses and facilities."[5]
- Salman Yahya Hassan Muhammad Rabeii was listed as one of the captives who was a foreign fighter.[5]
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In the Combatant Status Review Tribunals, it is the Recorder's responsibility to act like a Prosecutor, and compile and distribute the allegations against the detainee. During Rabeii's hearing, the Tribunal members asked the recorder to explain why the wording of the allegations, as read out, differed from the wording in copies they had been given to read.
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] An 11-page Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on February 29, 2008. It was signed by camp commandant Rear Admiral Mark H. Buzby. He recommended continued detention.
Notes and References
- https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/82886-isn-508-salman-yahya-hassan-mohammed-rabeii-jtf/3d18d4331478d152/full.pdf
- https://www.prs.mil/portals/60/documents/ISN508/150407_U_ISN508_GOVERNMENTS_UNCLASSIFIED_SUMMARY_PUBLIC.pdf
- News: U.S. military reviews 'enemy combatant' use . . October 11, 2007 . October 23, 2007 . 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..
- News: Q&A: What next for Guantanamo prisoners? . . January 21, 2002 . November 24, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081123204530/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1773140.stm . November 23, 2008 . live.
- 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.
- http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_53_3870-3959.pdf#40 Summarized transcripts (.pdf)
- News: WikiLeaks: Guantanamo Bay terrorist secrets revealed . The Daily Telegraph (London) . April 27, 2011 . July 13, 2012 . Christopher Hope, Robert Winnett, Holly Watt, Heidi Blake . July 15, 2012 . 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..
- News: WikiLeaks: The Guantánamo files database. The Daily Telegraph (London). April 27, 2011. July 10, 2012. June 26, 2015. 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.
