Deleted:Ohmed Ahmed Mahamoud Al Shurfa
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Ohmed Ahmed Mahamoud Al Shurfa (born December 26, 1975) is best known for the years he spent in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States.[1] Al Shurfa's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 331. The Department of Defense reports that Al Shurfa was born on December 26, 1975, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Jennifer Daskal reports, in Locked Up Alone: Detention Conditions and Mental Health at Guantanamo, that even though he was born and raised in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi government considers him a Palestinian.[2] According to Daskal, he suffered from vitiligo, that Guantanamo doctors had prescribed treatments for this condition, but none of the treatments had ever been provided. Daskal described his mental health as fragile, and that by 2008, he became too depressed to answer mail from his family.
According to German media, prior to his transfer to Germany, the German government has prepared for psychological help and is in negotiation about the transfer condition. They demand that he will not be chained on his flight to Germany like Murat Kurnaz.[3]
Al Shurfa and Syrian Mahmoud Salim al-Ali were released to Germany on September 16, 2010. Upon his arrival, al Shurfa was sent immediately to the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf for days-long physical and psychological examination because of fears that his long detention at the Guantanamo camps could have damaged his health.[4][5]
Combatant Status Review
Al Shurfa was among the 60% of prisoners who chose to participate in tribunal hearings.[6] A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for the tribunal of each detainee. Al Shurfa's memo accused him of the following:[7]
- a. The detainee is a member of Al-Qaida.
- Prior to his arrival in Afghanistan, the detainee admits being influenced by a known terrorist organization and actively sought to join the jihad.
- Around July 2001, the detainee arrived in Kandahar and stayed at a known Al-Qaida guesthouse.
- The detainee received AK-47 training while at a known Al-Qaida run training camp.
- b. The detainee participated in military operations against the coalition.
- The detainee was located at the Al-Qaeda training camp when 9/11 occurred, at which time he evacuated to Tora Bora.
- The detainee was apprehended fleeing into Pakistan from Tora Bora by the Pakistani border guard.
testimony
Al Shurfa chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.[8]
Transfer to Germany
Al Shurfa and another man were transferred to Germany in September 2010.[4][5][9] Al Shurfa was transferred to Hamburg.
According to Der Spiegel Germany's Federal Government had sought the agreement of local authorities prior to completing the transfer.[5] According to Der Spiegel German officials asserted that American officials had cleared the two men of suspicion of involvement with terrorism. German officials conducted interviews with the two men, in Guantanamo, in March, to confirm their suitability for transfer to Germany. German officials contacted security officials in other European countries, to confirm they had no reason to suspect the men had ties to terrorism.
References
- ↑ OARDEC (2006-05-15). "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. http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
- ↑ Jennifer Daskal, Joanne Mariner (2008). Locked Up Alone: Detention Conditions and Mental Health at Guantanamo. Human Rights Watch. pp. 35-36. ISBN 1 56432 3404. http://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=5_rJ0NeOX90C&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=Belbacha+Guantanamo&ots=pufd9tvDA7&sig=SW5htpdmbblMNZdIHwKeGa19pv8&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Belbacha%20&f=false. Retrieved 2012-07-05. "Contributing to his emotional distress, Al Shurafa has suffered for many years from vitiligo, a skin disease that causes him to lose pigmentation in his skin, so that he looks as if he has been burned or bleached. Al Shurafa reports that several Guantanamo doctors have prescribed ointments or other treatments for the disease, but he has never received any of the prescriptions."
- ↑ http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,705743,00.html
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Carol Rosenberg (2010-09-16). "Camps census now 174: Germany takes in two Arab captives from Guantánamo". Miami Herald. http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/09/16/1827559/germany-takes-in-2-guantanamo.html. Retrieved 2010-09-19. "The Pentagon reduced its Guantánamo prison camps census to 174 foreign captives on Thursday, announcing that it had sent two Arabs to resettlement in Germany." mirror
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Two Former Inmates Arrive in Germany". Der Spiegel. 2010-09-16. http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,717911,00.html. Retrieved 2010-09-19. "A spokesman for the Hamburg government confirmed that Ahmed Mohammed al-Shurfa, a stateless man of Palestinian descent born in Saudi Arabia, had arrived in the northern German port city." mirror
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Ohmed Ahmed Mahamoud Al Shurfa's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 79-82
- ↑ Summarized transcript (.pdf), from Ohmed Ahmed Mahamoud Al Shurfa's Administrative Review Board hearing - page 67
- ↑ "Deutschland hat zwei Personen aus Guantanamo aufgenommen". Germany. 2010-09-16. http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2010/09/16/10/germantransfer.source.prod_affiliate.56.pdf. Retrieved 2010-09-19. mirror
External links
- Ayman al Shurafa
- Locked Up Alone
- Germany takes in two Arab captives from Guantánamo
- Who Are the Two Guantánamo Prisoners Freed in Germany? Andy Worthington, September 21, 2010
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