Abdel Malik al Rahabi

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Abdel Malik al Rahabi
Abd al-Malik Abd al-Wahab identity portrait
Abd al-Malik Abd al-Wahab identity portrait, showing him wearing the white uniform issued to compliant individuals.
Nationality Yemen
Known for held for over 12 years without charge

Abdel Malik al-Rahabi is a citizen of Yemen who is who has been held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba, since 2002.[1] The United States has never charged him with a crime. In 2009 United States President Barack Obama authorized the creation of the Guantanamo Review Task Force, to conduct new reviews of the the status of individuals held in Guantanamo. Rahabi's 2009 review recommended that while the evidence necessary to charge him with a crime did not exist, he nevertheless might pose a meaningful risk to the USA, if he were released, and that he should therefore continue to be held without charge.[2]

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]

The Summary of Evidence memo prepared for Rahabi's Combatant Status Review Tribunal was 2 pages long, and included 5 allegations.[4] Although the DoD estimated he was born in 1979, the memo claimed he attended the Khaldan training camp in 1995. The DoD allegation identified the Khaldan camp as being an al Qaeda training when experts like historian Andy Worthington, the author of The Guantanamo Files have described it as a rival camp run by a rival organization, one with a less radical, less militant agenda.

Rahabi chose to attend his Tribunal, and the DoD published a 8 page summarized transcript.[5] At his Tribunal Rahabi said he was a student in Yemen, until 1996, which precluded him traveling to Afghanistan to attend the Khaldan camp in 1995. He acknowledged traveling to Afghanistan, in 2000 -- to teach the Koran. He denied ever having any contact with al Qaeda; he acknowledged having limited contact with Taliban officials, who directed him to a mosque where he could teach, and assigned a small house for him to live in, while he taught.

He denied fighting with the Taliban or al Qaida. He said that he had not believed the Taliban and the Northern Alliance should ever have been engaged in a civil war, as both sides were muslims.

He disputed that he had ever acknowledged writing a "martyr letter".

From 2005 until President Obama replaced it with the Guantanamo Review Task Force, OARDEC was supposed to convene annual reviews for every captive, to determine whether they should continue to be detained, or whether they could safely be released -- except for the captives who were currently facing charges before a Guantanamo military commission. For reasons that are unclear there is no record that OARDEC convened Administrative Review Board hearings for Rahabi in either 2005 or 2006.

A memo prepared for an Administrative Review Board hearing was drafted on January 16, 2007.[6] That memo was 4 pages long. It listed 26 "factors that favor detention" and three "factors that favor release or transfer".

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] Rahabi's assessment was one of the 764 WikiLeaks published.[9] Rahabi's assessment was eleven pages long, and was drafted on April 28, 2008.[10] It was signed by Mark H. Buzby, who recommended continued detention.

Periodic Review Board

On January 28, 2014 a panel of officials convened to review whether al Rahab continued to pose a threat to the United States.[11]

Al Rahabi's hearing was the first status hearing to have any portion of it observed by reporters since President Obama was inaugurated, and possibly since 2005.[12]

Al Rahabi's hearing was the first, since the camp opened, where human rights workers had been allowed to observe any portion of the hearing.[12]

Al Rahabi's hearing was only the second, since the camp opened, where a captive's lawyer had been allowed to observe any portion of the hearing.[12]

According to Carol Rosenberg, reporting in the Miami Herald, the structure of the hearing didn't allow al Rahabi to speak in his own defense.[13]

According to Andrea Prasow, of Human Rights Watch, only thirteen observers were allowed to watch the unclassified portion of al Rahabi's hearing -- nine reporters and four human rights workers.[14] Daphne Eviatar, a senior lawyer at Human Rights Watch who was one of the small number of individuals allowed to watch the unclassified portion of the hearing, called it "scripted", like a play, with actors reading parts.[15][16] She wrote:

It’s great that modern interactive video technology allows all this. But really, all we’ll be watching is the government-approved script of a play read by the relevant actors, one of whose freedom is on the line. We won’t be allowed to hear what al Wahab, imprisoned for the last dozen years at Guantanamo after Pakistani authorities seized and turned him over to the Americans in December 2001, might say extemporaneously, or in response to any of the board members’ questions.[15]

Andy Worthington, the author of The Guantanamo Files [17]

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Al-Rahab's Periodic Review was the first which was nominally open to observers, as it took place. Six representatives of the Departments of Defense, of Justice and State who were to make the recommendations met in a tele-conference room in the Washington DC area. Al-Rahab, a translator, his civilian lawyer David Remes, and two officers who were to serve as his Personal Representatives, were tele-present in a small tele-conference room in Guantanamo. The press The only portion of the hearing that was broadcast, for the press and observers to watch was the unclassified portion.[12] Al Rahab's participation was also via

References

  1. ↑ "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. Archived from the original on 2010-10-07. http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf. Retrieved 2006-05-15. 
  2. ↑ David Dishneau (2014-01-28). "US: detained Yemeni may rejoin al Qaida if freed". Arlington, Virginia: Associated Press. Archived from the original on 2014-01-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20140128183259/http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GUANTANAMO_PRISONER_REVIEWS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "U.S. military reviews 'enemy combatant' use". USA Today. 2007-10-11. Archived from the original on 2012-08-11. http://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." 
  4. ↑ OARDEC (2004-09-21). "Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal - ABD AL WAHAB, Abd Al Malik (Al-BATTAR)". US Department of Defense. http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/37-abd-al-malik-abd-al-wahab/documents/5. Retrieved 2014-01-28. 
  5. ↑ OARDEC (2004). "Summarized Detainee Statement". US Department of Defense. http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/37-abd-al-malik-abd-al-wahab/documents/4. Retrieved 2014-01-28. 
  6. ↑ OARDEC (2007-01-16). "Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of ABD AL WAHAB, Abd Al Malik'". US Department of Defense. http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/37-abd-al-malik-abd-al-wahab/documents/9. Retrieved 2014-01-28. 
  7. ↑ 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." 
  8. ↑ "WikiLeaks: The Guantánamo files database". The Telegraph (UK). 2011-04-27. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/guantanamo-bay-wikileaks-files/8476672/WikiLeaks-The-Guantanamo-files-database.html. Retrieved 2012-07-10. 
  9. ↑ "Abd Al Malak Abd Al Wahab Al Rahbi: Guantanamo Bay detainee file on Abd Al Malak Abd Al Wahab Al Rahbi, US9YM-000037DP, passed to the Telegraph by Wikileaks". The Telegraph (UK). 2011-04-27. Archived from the original on 2014-01-28. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/guantanamo-bay-wikileaks-files/8477468/Guantanamo-Bay-detainee-file-on-Abd-Al-Malak-Abd-Al-Wahab-Al-Rahbi-US9YM-000037DP.html. Retrieved 2014-01-28. "Recommendation: Continued detention under DoD control" 
  10. ↑ Mark H. Buzby (2008-04-28). "Recommendation for Continued Detention Under DoD Control (CD) for Guantanamo Detainee, ISN US9AG". Joint Task Force Guantanamo. Archived from the original on 2011-04-26. http://wikileaks.ch/gitmo/pdf/ym/us9ym-000037dp.pdf. Retrieved 2014-01-28. 
  11. ↑ Wells Bennett (2014-01-28). "Today’s Periodic Review Board Hearing". Lawfare. http://www.lawfareblog.com/2014/01/todays-periodic-review-board-hearing/#.Uuf8dbROnIU. Retrieved 2014-01. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Zak Newman (2014-01-28). "Guantanamo Review Board: This is Not What Transparency Looks Like". American Civil Liberties Union. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20140202164033/https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/guantanamo-review-board-not-what-transparency-looks. "Filling the screen were five men huddled around a small conference table: a translator, the detainee’s two personal military representatives, his long-time personal lawyer, and – seated directly in front of the camera – the detainee himself, Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahan al Rahabi." 
  13. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named MiamiHerald2014-01-28
  14. ↑ Andrea Prasow (2014-01-28). "Dispatches: Opaque As Ever at Guantanamo". Human Rights Watch. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20140202162823/http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/01/28/dispatches-opaque-ever-guantanamo. "Nineteen minutes. That’s how long the review hearing for a Guantanamo detainee lasted this morning. Or, to be more exact, that’s as much of the proceeding as nine reporters and four representatives from nongovernmental organizations were permitted to observe, via video feed, from a secure conference room in Arlington, Virginia." 
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Daphne Eviatar (2014-01-28). "First “Public” PRB Hearing Raises More Questions Than it Answers". Just Security. Archived from the original on 2014-01-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20140129024023/http://justsecurity.org/2014/01/28/public-prb-hearing-raises-questions-answers/. ". In particular, it was supposed to provide more “transparency” about why the U.S. government continues to detain so-called “unprivileged enemy combatants” captured abroad at a prison camp in Cuba for twelve years without charge or trial, even as the U.S. military prepares to withdraw its final combat troops from Afghanistan. But if observers were hoping to learn anything more about why the detainee was imprisoned in the first place and whether he’s likely to be released anytime soon, they were sorely disappointed." 
  16. ↑ Daphne Eviatar (2014-01-27). "Quasi-public Guantanamo Detainee Hearings Start Tomorrow". Just Security. Archived from the original on 2014-01-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20140129023927/http://justsecurity.org/2014/01/27/quasi-public-guantanamo-detainee-hearings-start-tomorrow/. "In fact, to call it a “hearing” at all is a bit of a stretch: what observers will see are screened, scripted statements read by: 1) a representative of the government; 2) a U.S. military officer assigned to represent the detainee, and/or the detainee’s pro bono lawyer; and 3) the government-cleared statement of the detainee himself." 
  17. ↑ Andy Worthington (2014-01-29). "Indefinitely Detained Guantánamo Prisoner Asks Review Board to Recommend His Release". Archived from the original on 2014-01-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20140131010727/http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2014/01/29/indefinitely-detained-guantanamo-prisoner-asks-review-board-to-recommend-his-release/comment-page-1/. Retrieved 2014-10-30. "Al-Rahabi, it turns out, has a 13-year-old daughter, Ayesha, who he hasn’t seen since she was a baby, and, with the support of his father, who is a tailor, he hopes to study and to teach, as David Remes explained. Remes also told the review board that he and four other prisoners have drawn up a “stunningly detailed” business plan for an agricultural business they hope to establish on their release, called “Yemen Milk & Honey Farms Ltd.” to be “powered by windmills and have 100 farm houses, 10 cows, 50 lambs, 500 chickens and ’10 Honey Bee farming fruit trees, vegetables and flowers.’”" 
  18. ↑ Charlie Savage (2014-01-28). "Military Is Asked to Return Guantánamo Inmate to Yemen". Washington, DC: New York Times. Archived from the original on 2014-01-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20140131011456/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/us/military-is-asked-to-return-guantanamo-inmate-to-yemen.html?hp&_r=3. Retrieved 2014-01-30. "A lawyer for a Yemeni man who has been held for 12 years without trial at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, asked a parole-style military board on Tuesday to recommend that he be sent home, where he planned to teach and possibly start a “milk and honey farm” or work for his father’s tailoring business, according to a prepared statement." 
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External links

  1. "Osama planned attacks in Asia: cables". The Hindu. 2011-04-30. http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article1978877.ece. Retrieved 2012-05-27. "Abd al-Malik Abd al-Wahab, a Yemen national, was arrested by Pakistani forces on December 15, 2001 while attempting to cross the Afghanistan-Pakistan border near Parachinar in Pakistan after fleeing from Bin Laden's Tora Bora mountain complex." 
  2. "Pak Army Sponsored Training Camps: US Documents". Outlook India. 2011-04-29. http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=720466. Retrieved 2012-05-27. "Pakistan's army sponsored military-style training camps where terrorists including a bodyguard of al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden were given lessons in aquatic drills way back in 2000, secret interrogation reports of a Guantanamo Bay detainee have said. The report pertains to the interrogation of Yemen citizen Abd al-Malik Abd al-Wahab, who belonged to the 'Dirty 30' squad of Bin Laden." 
  3. "A dossier of unclassified documents, from Abdul Malik Abdul Wahab's Combatant Status Review Tribunal". OARDEC. 2004. Archived from the original on 2013-03-31. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_dossier_of_unclassified_documents,_from_Abdul_Malik_Abdul_Wahab%27s_Combatant_Status_Review_Tribunal.pdf. 
  4. "Guantanamo hunger strikers ready for death - lawyer". Agence France Presse. 2013-03-30. Archived from the original on 2013-03-31. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rappler.com%2Fworld%2F25121-guatanamo-hunger-strikers-ready-death-lawyer&date=2013-03-31. "Remes spoke to Abd al-Wahab and another prisoner he represents, Uthman Uthman (formal name: Uthman Abd al-Rahim Muhammad Uthman), for approximately an hour and a half via telephone on Friday, March 29. The lawyer was adamant that the hunger strikers are prepared to die unless there are changes to the protocols that govern how Korans are handled at the jail. Uthman has lost more than 20 kilograms (44 pounds) since starting the strike." 
  5. Marc Falkoff (2007). "Guantánamo Bay: The Global Effects of Wrongful Detention, Torture & Unchecked Executive Power". New York Law Review. Archived from the original on 2013-03-31. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Flaw.niu.edu%2Flaw%2Ffaculty%2Fdirectory%2Ffalkoff_articles%2FNYC%2520Law%2520Review.pdf&date=2013-03-31. "Another of my clients, Abd al Malik Abd al Wahab, was questioned at his CSRT hearing about accusations that he had been observed at an Al Qaeda “guesthouse” and that he was “frequently seen” with Osama bin Laden." 
  6. Edward A. Leacock (2006-12-08). "Combatant Status Review Tribunal Input and Recommendation for Continued Detention Under DoD Control (CD) for Guantanamo Detainee, ISN: US9KU-010024DP( S)". Joint Task Force Guantanamo. http://media.mcclatchydc.com/smedia/2011/04/27/19/us9ku-010024dp.source.prod_affiliate.91.pdf. Retrieved 2013-03-31. "Approximately two months prior to 11 September 2001, detainee [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed] took several UBL bodyguards including YM-569; Abd al-Rahman Shalbi Isa Uwaydha, ISN US9SA-000042DP (SA-0a2); Abd al-Malik Abd al-Wahab, ISN US9YM-000037DP (YM-037); and volunteers Abu Hafs al-Kuwaiti and Abu Musab al-Hashidi, to Karaclri to teach them English and American culture in preparation for the attacks"  16x16px Media related to File:ISN 10024, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's Guantanamo detainee assessment.pdf at Wikimedia Commons
  7. Mark H. Buzby (2008-04-15). "Recommendation for Continued Detention Under DoD Control (CD) for Guantanamo Detainee, ISN US9KU-000552DP (S)". Joint Task Force Guantanamo. http://media.mcclatchydc.com/smedia/2011/04/27/19/us9ku-000552dp.source.prod_affiliate.91.pdf. "Several JTF-GTMO detainees reported detainee [Fayiz al Kandari] is a religious shaykh who issued fatwas at JTF-GTMO... (S) Abd al-Malik Abd al-Wahab al-Rahbi, ISN US9YM-000037DP (YM-037), a former UBL bodyguard, reported he heard a fatwa was issued allowing JTF-GTMO detainees to kill themselves or to be killed."  * 16x16px Media related to File:ISN 00552, Faez Mohammed Ahmed al-Kandari's Guantanamo detainee assessment.pdf at Wikimedia Commons
  8. "Osama planned 9/11-like attacks in Asia: WikiLeaks". rediff. 2011-04-29. Archived from the original on 2013-03-31. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rediff.com%2Fnews%2Freport%2Fosama-plannedtwenty-six-september-like-attacks-in-asia-says-wikileaks%2F20110429.htm&date=2013-03-31. "The report, signed by a Rear Admiral on April 28, 2008, says that Al-Wahab was related, by marriage to Bin Laden. It however did not elaborate. Recommending continued detention, the report said, "Detainee received specialised terrorist training and was designated to be a suicide operative in an al-Qaida plot to hijack airplanes in Southeast Asia."" 
  9. "Pakistan Army sponsored military-style camps reveals US documents". Post Jadran. 2011-0-29. http://post.jagran.com/pakistan-army-sponsored-militarystyle-camps-reveals-us-documents-1304080376. Retrieved 2013-03-31. ""Muhammad Iqbal had a son, Ahmed Muhammad Iqbal, who was a fighter with the mujahideen in Kashmir, PK (used to signify Pakistan). Ahmed Iqbal attempted to recruit detainee to fight with the mujahideen in Kashmir. Detainee informed Ahmed that he would not fight in Kashmir but would accept the training," the report said." 
  10. "Guantanamo hunger strikers ready for death - lawyers". Tengri News. 2011-03-30. Archived from the original on 2013-03-31. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.tengrinews.kz%2Funrest%2FGuatanamo-hunger-strikers-ready-for-death---lawyer--18134%2F&date=2013-03-31. "His body ravaged and weakened by a 50-day hunger strike staged in protest at alleged mistreatment of Korans at Guantanamo jail, Abd al-Malik Abd al-Wahab has a message for his loved ones, AFP reports" 
  11. "Guantanamo hunger strikers ready for death: lawyer". Agence France-Presse. 2013-03-31. Archived from the original on 2013-03-31. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rawstory.com%2Frs%2F2013%2F03%2F31%2Fguantanamo-hunger-strikers-ready-for-death-lawyer%2F&date=2013-03-31. "His body ravaged and weakened by a 50-day hunger strike staged in protest at alleged mistreatment of Korans at Guantanamo jail, Abd al-Malik Abd al-Wahab has a message for his loved ones. “Tell my family if I die to forgive me,” said Abd al-Wahab, a 33-year-old Yemeni national who has spent 11 years — or a third of his life — behind bars at the controversial US detention facility in Cuba." 
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  21. David Dishneau (2014-01-28). "Detained Yemeni seeks Guantanamo release after 12 years; US, lawyer disagree on any threat". Montreal Gazette. Archived from the original on 2014-02-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20140209010213/http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/detained+Yemeni+could+rejoin+Qaida+freed+lawyer+says/9439368/story.html. Retrieved 2014-02-08. "The public portion of Tuesday's hearing lasted just 19 minutes, with al-Rahabi, his lawyer and his two military "personal representatives" linked by video from Cuba. Eight journalists and four human rights advocates watched the video feed from a conference room in the suburban Washington office building that houses the board's offices." 
  22. "Early detainee seeks freedom as US mulls closing Guantanamo facility". Times of India. 2014-01-29. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2014-01-29/us/46780971_1_former-guantanamo-detainee-review-panel-human-rights-watch. Retrieved 2014-02. "Abdel Malik Wahab al-Rahabi, a 34-year-old Yemeni, appeared frail and serious in a white prison tunic during the 19-minute declassified hearing of the US prison camp's "Periodic Review Board"." 
  23. David Dishneau (2014-01-28). "Detained Yemeni seeks Guantanamo release after 12 years; US, lawyer disagree on any threat". Windsor Star. http://www.windsorstar.com/news/detained+Yemeni+could+rejoin+Qaida+freed+lawyer+says+business/9439368/story.html. Retrieved 2014-02. 
  24. "How many inmates are left at Guantanamo?". Updated News. 2014-01-28. Archived from the original on 2014-01-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20140130210746/http://www.updatednews.ca/2014/01/28/how-many-inmates-are-left-at-guantanamo/. Retrieved 2014-02-08. "It is a hopeful sign for detainees. Al-Rahabi and others will be allowed to speak their mind – and say why they should be released. It is also a reminder that some have been approved for release – but are still there. And that others are supposed to be prosecuted, but may never be. Their fate is unlikely to change." 
  25. "Detained Yemeni could rejoin Al Qaeda if freed, US warns". Fox News. 2014-01-28. Archived from the original on 2014-02-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20140129043521/http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/01/28/detained-yemeni-could-rejoin-al-qaida-if-freed-his-lawyer-says-has-business/. Retrieved 2014-02-08. "Abdel Malik al-Rahabi, 34, only wants to rejoin his Yemeni family, attend college, teach and start an agricultural business, Yemen Milk and Honey Farms Ltd., attorney David Remes told a review panel whose proceedings, for the first time, were partly open to the public." 
  26. Jess Bravin (2014-01-28). "Hearing Offers Rare Peek at Guantanamo: Reporters, Advocates Observe Arguments on Whether a Detainee Can Return to Yemen". Arlington, Virginia: Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 2014-02-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20140207093554/http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303277704579349120285988310. Retrieved 2014-02-08. "Eight reporters and four advocates were brought to a secure room in a Defense Department office building, where they could take notes with pad and pen but not laptops. They were allowed to observe a 19-minute unclassified segment in which Mr. Rahabi sat silently while his civilian attorney, David Remes, and an unidentified military officer assigned as the detainee's personal representative read statements that previously had been posted on a Pentagon website." 
    1. ↑ Carol Rosenberg (2014-01-28). "Yemeni ‘forever prisoner’ asks to leave Guantánamo". Arlington, Virginia: Mami Herald. Archived from the original on 2014-01-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20140129021706/http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/01/28/3897535/yemeni-held-as-forever-prisoner.html. 
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