Deleted:Yahya Samil Al Suwaymil Al Sulami
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Yahya Samil Al Suwaymil Al Sulami is a citizen of Saudi Arabia who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 66.
Combatant Status Review
Main article: Combatant Status Review Tribunal
Al Sulami was among the 60% of prisoners who participated in the tribunal hearings.[2] A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for the tribunal of each detainee. The memo accused him of the following:[3][3]
- a. The detainee is as al Qaida operative:
- The detainee states he traveled from Saudi Arabia to Afghanistan via Pakistan to teach the Koran to non-Arabs.
- The detainee was identified as having special mission training (explosives, assassination, etc) and possessed a computer disc showing this training.
- The detainee was identified as being in a group of 30 Usama Bin Laden bodyguards and drivers captured by the Pakistani military while fleeing Afghanistan.
- The group of 30 were told the best thing they could tell US Forces when interrogated was they were in Afghanistan to teach the Koran.
- b. The detainee participated in military operations against the coalition.
- The detainee was identified as the Emir of a group of 10-15 fighters guardying a river crossing leading to the Tora Bora Camp.
- The detainee was identified as firing a weapon while at a guard post between Tora Bora and Jalalabad.
Repatriation
Repatriated to Saudi custody, with fifteen other men, on July 16, 2007.[4][5] Historian Andy Worthington wrote:
Al-Silami was one of 30 detainees accused of being Osama bin Laden's bodyguards in a notorious example of confessions obtained through torture. The man who made the allegation -- and later retracted his "confession" -- was Mohammed al Qahtani, an alleged "20th hijacker" for the 9/11 attacks, who was subjected to "enhanced interrogation techniques" for several months at the end of 2002.
References
- ↑ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, April 20, 2006
- ↑ OARDEC, Index to Transcripts of Detainee Testimony and Documents Submitted by Detainees at Combatant Status Review Tribunals Held at Guantanamo Between July 2004 and March 2005, September 4, 2007
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Yahya Samil Al Suwaymil Al Sulami's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 77-84
- ↑ Raid Qusti (July 17, 2007). "More Gitmo Detainees Come Home". Arab News. http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=98598&d=17&m=7&y=2007&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom. Retrieved 2007-07-17.
- ↑ Andy Worthington (July 18, 2007). "Who are the 16 Saudis Released From Guantánamo?". Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-worthington/who-are-the-16-saudis-rel_b_56810.html.
External links
- Who are the 16 Saudis released from Guantánamo? Andy Worthington
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