Abdullah Yahia Yousf Al Shabli
Abdullah Yahia Yousf Al Shabli (عبدالله يحيى يوسف الشبلي) was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba, from February 7, 2002, to January 5, 2017.[1][2][3] The Department of Defense reports that he was born on September 10, 1977, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 240. The Department of Defense was inconsistent as to his nationality, stating both Yemeni and Saudi Arabian.
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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.[4] 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.[4][7]
Scholars at the Brookings Institution, lead by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations:[8]
- Abdullah Yahia Yousf Al Shabli was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... are associated with Al Qaeda."[8]
- Abdullah Yahia Yousf Al Shabli was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... traveled to Afghanistan for jihad."[8]
- Abdullah Yahia Yousf Al Shabli was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges that the following detainees stayed in Al Qaeda, Taliban or other guest- or safehouses."[8]
- Abdullah Yahia Yousf Al Shabli was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... took military or terrorist training in Afghanistan."[8]
- Abdullah Yahia Yousf Al Shabli was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... were at Tora Bora."[8]
- Abdullah Yahia Yousf Al Shabli was listed as one of the captives whose "names or aliases were found on material seized in raids on Al Qaeda safehouses and facilities."[8]
- Abdullah Yahia Yousf Al Shabli was listed as one of the captives who was a foreign fighter.[8]
- Abdullah Yahia Yousf Al Shabli 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."[8]
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.[9][10] His Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on It was signed by camp commandant He recommended [11]
Joint Review Task Froce
Transfer to Saudi Arabia
Although al-Shabli, and dozens of other captives from Yemen, were cleared for release by the Joint Reviw Task Force, in 2009, a would-be suicide bomber from Kenya, who tried and failed to bring down a US airliner, had been trained and equipped in Yemen, making transfers to Yemen politically unacceptable.[12] Charlie Savage, of the New York Times, reported that, in 2014, the Obama Presidency gave up on Yemen, concluding it would not have improved its security before the end of his term, and strted transferring Yemenis who had been cleared for release to other countries.
In the months before his term ended observes speculated that the Obam Presidency, while falling short of his goal of emptying Guantanamo, semed to be aiming to at least transfer all the men who had been cleared for release.[12] Al-Shabli, and three other Yemenis, were tranferred to Saudi Arabia, on January 5, 2017, where they would be held in the Saudi rehabilitation centre, situated in a former resort.
References
- ↑ Margot Williams (2008-11-03). "Guantanamo Docket: Abdullah Yahia Yousf al Shabli". New York Times. http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/240-abdullah-yahia-yousf-al-shabli. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
- ↑ OARDEC. "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf. Retrieved 2006-05-15. 16x16px Works related to List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006 at Wikisource
- ↑ "Detainee Information". US Department of Defense. Archived from the original on 2016-08-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20160812022717/https://www.ayotte.senate.gov/files/documents/Guantanamo%20Detainee%20Transparency%20Report.pdf. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "U.S. military reviews 'enemy combatant' use". USA Today. 2007-10-11. Archived from the original on 2012-08-11. https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-10-11-guantanamo-combatants_N.htm. "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."
- ↑ Guantánamo Prisoners Getting Their Day, but Hardly in Court, New York Times, November 11, 2004 - mirror Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Inside the Guantánamo Bay hearings: Barbarian "Justice" dispensed by KGB-style "military tribunals", Financial Times, December 11, 2004
- ↑ "Q&A: What next for Guantanamo prisoners?". BBC News. 2002-01-21. Archived from the original on 24 November 2008. https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F2%2Fhi%2Famericas%2F1773140.stm&date=2008-11-24. Retrieved 2008-11-24.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 Benjamin Wittes, Zaathira Wyne (2008-12-16). "The Current Detainee Population of Guantánamo: An Empirical Study". The Brookings Institution. Archived from the original on 2012-06-22. https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brookings.edu%2F%7E%2Fmedia%2Fresearch%2Ffiles%2Freports%2F2008%2F12%2F16%2520detainees%2520wittes%2F1216_detainees_wittes.pdf&date=2012-06-22. Retrieved 2010-02-16.
- ↑ Christopher Hope; Robert Winnett; Holly Watt; Heidi Blake (2011-04-27). "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". The Telegraph (UK). Archived from the original on 2012-07-13. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8471907/WikiLeaks-Guantanamo-Bay-terrorist-secrets-revealed.html. Retrieved 2012-07-13. "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."
- ↑ "WikiLeaks: The Guantánamo files database". The Telegraph (UK). 2011-04-27. Archived from the original on 2015-06-26. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/guantanamo-bay-wikileaks-files/8476672/WikiLeaks-The-Guantanamo-files-database.html. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
- ↑ . The Telegraph (UK). 2011-04-27.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 {{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/us/politics/yemeni-detainees-guantanamo-saudi-arabia.html | title = 4 Yemeni Detainees at Guantánamo Are Transferred to Saudi Arabia | work = New York Times | author = Charlie Savage | date = 2017-01-05 | page = | location = [[Washington, DC] | archiveurl = | archivedate = | accessdate = 2018-03-10 | deadurl = No | quote = They included two men, Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir and Abdullah Yahia Yousf al Shabli, who were approved for transfer by a six-agency task force in 2009 but remained stranded because Yemen was in chaos. }}
External links
- Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Two: Captured in Afghanistan (2001) Andy Worthington, September 17, 2010
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