Deleted:Walid al Qadasi

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Former Guantanamo captives Walid al-Qadasi and Sadiq Muhammad Saeed wear black hoods during a protest to demand the release of Yemeni detainees from Guantanamo Bay.
Walid al Qadasi
Born 1980 (age 43–44)
Other names Walid Mohammed Shahir
Citizenship Yemen
Spouse separated
Children 2 children

Walid al Qadasi is a citizen of Yemen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] He also reports being held in the dark prison one of the CIA's network of secret interrogation camps.[2][3]

He was the first Yemeni captive to be repatriated.[4]

He reports that he remembers being given an injection in Guantanamo, and then waking up in a prison in Yemen, where he spent at least another two years in Yemeni custody.[3]

Mother Jones magazine lists him as a captive who was tortured in "the dark prison".[5]

2009 interview

Michelle Shephard, writing in the Toronto Star, traveled to Yemen in September 2009, and reported on interviews with three former Yemeni captives.[4] Walid was held without charge for a further two years in Yemeni custody.

He says he was not captured in Afghanistan or Pakistan.[4] Rather he was in Iran, where he says he was looking for work. In the months following the American overthrow of the Taliban Iranian security official cooperated with the USA. They handed over a dozen foreigners to the Americans. Walid claims he was "sold" to the Americans.

Walid's wife has left him, because he cannot find work.[4]

In April 2013 Walid and another former captive were photographed protesting Guantanamo outside the United States Embassy in Sanaa.[6] The two men were shackled, hooded, and wore orange boiler-suits similar to those Guantanamo captives are made to wear. The image was widely republished, and Walid's appearance in it triggered comments like that of L. Michael Hager, who asked, in the Christian Science Monitor, whether: "We need to ask ourselves whether the indefinite detention of prisoners...will really enhance our national security – or impair it."

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. http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf. Retrieved 2006-05-15. 
  2. Irene Khan (2004-05-13). "America’s Gulag". Amnesty International. Archived from the original on 2009-08-02. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spokesmanbooks.com%2FSpokesman%2FPDF%2F82khan.pdf&date=2009-09-19. Retrieved 2009-08-02. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Eric Umansky (2006-03-05). "A Fate Worse Than Guantanamo? The U.S. Has an Obligation to the Prisoners It Is 'Releasing' Overseas". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2009-12-20. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2006%2F03%2F03%2FAR2006030301755.html&date=2009-12-20. "Another 180 detainees have been cleared in one way or another and, in the Pentagon's careful parlance, "transferred for release." The military appears to put al-Qadasi in this second category. In that grouping, a Pentagon spokesman told me, "We don't insist the prisoner continue to be held." Rather, he explained, the country the detainee is being returned to just "promises to ensure that the prisoner won't be a threat to the United States."" 
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Michelle Shephard (2009-09-19). "Where extremists come to play". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 2009-09-19. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thestar.com%2FNews%2FWorld%2Farticle%2F698066&date=2009-09-19. 
  5. "Disappearing Act: Rendition by the Numbers". Mother Jones magazine. 2008-03-03. Archived from the original on 2009-12-20. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmotherjones.com%2Fpolitics%2F2008%2F03%2Fdisappearing-act-rendition-numbers+&date=2009-12-20. 
  6. L. Michael Hager (2013-05-02). "America can't afford the real cost of Guantánamo". Christian Science Monitor. Archived from the original on 2014-04-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20140423052355/http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2013/0502/America-can-t-afford-the-real-cost-of-Guantanamo. Retrieved 2014-08-29. "Former Guantánamo Bay detainees Walid al-Qadasi (right) and Sadiq Muhammad Saeed protest to demand the release of Yemeni detainees from Guantánamo Bay, outside the US embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, April 16. Op-ed contributor L. Michael Hager says 'we [Americans] need to ask ourselves whether the indefinite detention of prisoners...will really enhance our national security – or impair it.'" 
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