Turki Mash Awi Zayid Al Asiri Explained

Turki Mash Awi Zayid Al Asiri
Birth Date:8 March 1975
Birth Place:Yaboq, Saudi Arabia
Death Place:Tuban District, Yemen
Id Number:185
Branch:AQAP
(2011–2016)
Serviceyears:2009–2014
Alias:Turki Mish'awi Za'id Alj-Amri
Charge:No charge (held in extrajudicial detention)
Status:Named on the Saudi Arabian most wanted list, after his release.

Turki Mash Awi Zayid Al Asiri (March 8, 1975 – November 7, 2014) was a citizen of Saudi Arabia who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 185.Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts reports that Al Asiri was born on March 8, 1975, in Yaboq, Saudi Arabia.

He was named on Saudi Arabian most wanted list on February 3, 2009. Asiri was the Emir of Al-Qaeda for Lahij Governorate.[2] He was killed in Yemen by security forces on November 7, 2014.[3]

Combatant Status Review

See main article: Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for his tribunal. The memo listed the following allegations against him:[4] [5]

Administrative Review Board hearing

Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings. The Administrative Review Boards were not authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they were not authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".

They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat—or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free.

First annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Turki Mash Awi Zayid Al Asiri'sfirst annualAdministrative Review Board, on 9 September 2005.[6] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.The four page memo listed twenty-six"primary factors favor[ing] continued detention" and two"primary factors favor[ing] release or transfer".

The allegations he faced included:

Second annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Turki Mish'awi Za'id Alj-Amri's second annualAdministrative Review Board, on 9 May 2006.[8] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

Repatriation

On November 25, 2008, the Department of Defense published a list of when captives left Guantanamo.[9] According to that list he was repatriated to Saudi custody on November 9, 2007, with thirteen other men.The records published from the captives' annual Administrative Reviews show his repatriation was not the outcome of the formal internal review procedures.[10] [11] [12] The records show his detention was not reviewed in 2007.

At least ten other men in his release group were not repatriated through the formal review procedure.[10] [11] [12]

Peter Taylor writing for the BBC News called the Saudis repatriated on November 9, 2007, with Al Assiri, "batch 10".[13] He wrote that the BBC's research had found this batch to be a problematic cohort, and that four other men from this batch were named on the Saudi most wanted list.

Named on a Saudi "most wanted" list

On February 3, 2009, the Saudi government published a list of 85 "most wanted" suspected terrorists, that included an individual identified as "Turki Mashawi Al Aseery".[14] This list contained ten other former Guantanamo captives.Half of the eleven former captives listed on most wanted list were also from among the eleven men repatriated on November 9, 2007—in spite of their annual reviews recommending continued detention.

External links

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. United States Department of Defense. 2006-05-15.
  2. Top Al-Qaeda leader killed by Yemen forces: Report. The Daily Star. February 7, 2017. February 8, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170208035756/http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2014/Nov-07/276852-top-al-qaeda-leader-killed-by-yemen-forces-report.ashx?utm_source=Magnet&utm_medium=Entity%20page&utm_campaign=Magnet%20tools. dead.
  3. Web site: AQAP eulogizes emir of Lahj province killed in Aden, Yemen | FDD's Long War Journal. November 10, 2014.
  4. Web site: Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- name redacted . 5 October 2004 . OARDEC . OARDEC . 203–204 . . 2007-12-07 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060731081044/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_mar05.pdf#203 . 31 July 2006.
  5. Web site: Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Turki Mash Awi Zayid Al Asiri . 5 October 2004 . OARDEC . OARDEC . 92–93 . . 2007-12-07 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080507052740/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000101-000200.pdf#92 . 7 May 2008.
  6. Web site: Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Turki Mash Awi Zayid Al Asiri . 9 September 2005 . OARDEC . OARDEC . 16–19 . . 2007-12-07 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080716131121/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000197-000294.pdf#16 . 16 July 2008.
  7. Pacha Khan Zadran was elected to Afghanistan's National Assembly in 2004. Hamid Karzai appointed Amanullah Zadran his Minister of the Interior in 2002.
  8. Web site: Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Alj-Amri, Turki Mish'awi Za'id . 9 May 2006 . OARDEC . OARDEC . 68–72 . . 2007-12-07 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080507045242/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_200-298.pdf#68 . 7 May 2008.
  9. News: Consolidated chronological listing of GTMO detainees released, transferred or deceased . . OARDEC . OARDEC . 2008-10-09 . 2008-12-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081220004442/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/09-F-0031_doc1.pdf . 2008-12-20.
  10. Web site: Index to Transfer and Release Decision for Guantanamo Detainees . OARDEC . OARDEC . . July 17, 2007 . 2007-09-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071203004353/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_transfer_release_decision_ARB_Round_1.pdf . December 3, 2007.
  11. Web site: Index of Transfer and Release Decision for Guantanamo Detainees from ARB Round Two . OARDEC . OARDEC . . August 10, 2007 . 2007-09-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080227125640/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_2_Decision_Memos.pdf . February 27, 2008.
  12. News: Index to Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for Administrative Review Boards (Round 3) Held at Guantanamo . . 2009-01-09 . 2009-01-22 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090125033134/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB3FactorIndex8Jan09.pdf . 2009-01-25.
  13. News: Yemen al-Qaeda link to Guantanamo Bay prison . . 2010-01-13 . Peter Taylor . https://web.archive.org/web/20100116042100/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8454804.stm . 2010-01-16 . dead.
  14. News: Names keep climbing on infamous terror list . . Mansour Al-Shihri, Khaled A-Shalahi . 2009-02-07 . 2009-02-07 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090210062831/http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2009020428379 . 2009-02-10.

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