List of Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay

The United States has held a total of 115 Yemeni citizens at Guantanamo Bay, forty-two of whom have since been transferred out of the facility.[1] Only Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia had a greater number of their citizens held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.[1] By January 2008, the Yemenis in Guantanamo represented the largest group of detainees.[2]

Among the Yemeni detainees currently held (as of November 2015), 44 are recommended for transfer out of the facility, while twenty-three are being held indefinitely and are not recommended for transfer.[1] Only Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul has been convicted by military tribunal, and his conviction has been vacated on appeal.[1] Two Yemeni detainees are awaiting trials by military commissions, Ramzi bin al-Shibh and Walid Bin Attash.[1]

Events

A delegation of Yemeni officials visited Guantanamo shortly after it opened in January 2002.[3]

On March 12, 2008, Mark Falkoff of the Center for Constitutional Rights issued a call for the repatriation of the Yemeni detainees, reporting that 95 Yemenis remained in detention, and they now constituted more than a third of the total detainee population.[4] Falkoff wrote that the delay in his release is due to a failure of the United States and Yemeni governments to reach an agreement on the security arrangements for the detainees, following their repatriation. By contrast, almost all the 133 Saudi detainees in Guantanamo had been sent home in 2006 and 2007.

Impact of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's alleged attempted suicide bombing

On December 25, 2009, Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly tried to set off a suicide bomb on Northwest Airlines Flight 253. By December 27, 2009, responding to rumors that Abdulmutallab had confessed to being trained and equipped in Yemen, various American politicians, including Joe Lieberman, Pete Hoekstra, Peter T. King and Bennie Thompson, called for American President Barack Obama to halt plans to repatriate the Yemenis.[5][6][7][8][9]

Repatriation negotiations

An article published in the Yemen Post on November 13, 2012, reported on secret terms in the US-Yemeni repatriation negotiations.[10]

Yemen recently had a change in administration. Officials of the new administration said, "Saleh demanded $200 million in return for receiving the Yemeni detainees, but the US offered him only $20 million. The two sides could not reach an agreement to release the detainees by then."'

Repatriated detainees

Several returned Yemeni detainees were charged and stood trial, following their repatriation.[11] Yemen established a special Criminal Court for Terrorism where their trials took place.[12][13][14][15]

On June 7, 2008, the Yemeni site Al Sahwa Net reported that negotiations were advanced for the repatriation of approximately seventy Yemeni detainees.[16]

On June 7, 2008, Yemen Online reported that several Yemeni detainees had recently been allowed to their first phone calls to their families.[17] The article also reported that "informed sources" said Stephan Seche, the American ambassador had returned to the US to brief the Bush Presidency on Yemen's rehabilitation program for repatriated detainees.

List of Yemeni detainees in Guantanamo

ISNNameArrival
date
Departure
date
NotesTransfer
recommendation
status
00026Fahed Abdullah Ahmad Ghazi2002-01-112016-01-13transferred to Oman[18]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00027Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman2002-12-11received habeas corpus2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended continued detention
00028Muaz Hamza Ahmad Al Alawi2002-01-172010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended continued detention
00029Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Al Ansi2002-01-162017-01-16transferred to Oman[19]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended continued detention
00030Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi2002-01-162016-04-16Saudi Arabia[20][21][22]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00031Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid2002-01-122016-08-15transferred to the United Arab Emirates[23][24]201x Periodic Review Board recommended transfer
00032Faruq Ali Ahmed2002-01-112009-12-19transfer ?
00033Mohammed Ahmad Said Al Edah2002-01-172016-08-15transferred to the United Arab Emirates[23][24]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00034Al Khadr Abdallah Muhammed Al Yafi2002-01-172015-01-14Transferred to Oman[25][26]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00035Idris Ahmed Abdu Qader Idris2002-06-082015-06-13Transferred to Oman[27]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00036Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris2002-01-112013-12-182010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00037Abd al Malik Abd al Wahab2002-01-112016-06-22Asylum in Montenegro2014 Periodic Review Board recommended transfer[28][29]
00039Ali Hamza Ahmed Suleiman Al Bahlul2002-01-11serving his sentence in Guantanamo
00040Abdel Qadir Hussein Al Mudhaffari2002-01-142016-08-15transferred to the United Arab Emirates[23][24]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00041Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmad2002-01-172016-08-15transferred to the United Arab Emirates[23][24]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended continued detention
00043Samir Naji Al Hasan Moqbel2002-01-112016-01-13transferred to Oman[18]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00044Mohammed Rajab Sadiq Abu Ghanim2002-01-112017-01-05transfer[30]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended continued detention
00045Ali Ahmad Muhammad Al Rahizi2002-01-112015-11-16transferred to the United Arab Emirates.[31] ?
00069Sadeq Muhammad Sa'id Ismail2007-06-182004-11-12 JTF-GTMO DAB recommended transfer
00078Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al Hanashi2002-02-082009-06-01Died in custody2008-06-10 JTF-GTMO DAB recommended continued detention
00088Waqas Mohammed Ali Awad2002-01-202016-01-13transferred to Oman[18]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00091Abdul Al Saleh2002-02-092016-08-15transferred to the United Arab Emirates[23][24]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00115Abdul Rahman Mohamed Saleh Naser2002-06-122016-04-16Saudi Arabia[20][21][22]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00117Muktar Yahya Najee Al Warafi2002-05-012016-01-13transferred to Oman[18]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00128Ghaleb Nassar Al Bihani2002-01-172017-01-16transferred to Oman[19]201x Periodic Review Board recommended transfer
00129Toufiq Saber Muhammad Al Marwa'i2002-06-122006-12-15transfer2005-01-07 JTF-GTMO DAB recommended transfer
00131Salem Ahmed Hadi2002-01-202017-01-05transfer[30]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended continued detention
00149Salim Ahmed Hamdan2002-05-012008-11-25transferred to serve sentence2008-09-04 JTF-GTMO DAB recommended continued detention
00152Asim Thahit Abdullah Al Khalaqi2002-01-172014-12-30asylum2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
He died in Kazakhstan shortly after his transfer
00153Fayiz Ahmad Yahia Suleiman2002-01-172016-07-10Transferred to Italy.[32][33]
00156Allal Ab Aljallil Abd Al Rahman Abd2002-01-172012-09-10died in custody2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00162Ali Husayn Abdullah Al Tays2002-02-092006-12-15transfer2004-10-08 JTF-GTMO DAB recommended transfer
00163Khalid Abd Jal Jabbar Muhammad Juthman Al Qadasi2002-02-092015-11-16transferred to the United Arab Emirates.[31]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00165Adil Said Al Haj Obeid Al Busayss2002-01-172015-11-16transferred to the United Arab Emirates.[31]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00167Ali Yahya Mahdi Al Raimi2002-05-012016-04-16Saudi Arabia[20][21][22]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00170Sharaf Ahmad Muhammad Masud2002-06-082015-06-13Transferred to Oman[27]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00171Abu Bakr Ibn Ali Muhhammad Alahdal2002-01-142016-01-13transferred to Oman[18]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00172Ali Muhammed Nasir2002-01-142007-09-28transferred2004-10-28 JTF-GTMO DAB recommended transfer
00178Tarek Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada2002-02-092016-04-16unknown[20][21][22][34][35]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00183Issam Hamid Al Bin Ali Al Jayfi2002-01-172006-12-15transferred2004-10-29 JTF-GTMO DAB recommended transfer
00193Muhsin Muhammad Musheen Moqbill2002-05-032006-12-15transferred2004-10-01 JTF-GTMO DAB recommended transfer
00198Mohammed Ahmed Ali Al Asadi2002-05-012006-12-15transferred2004-09-17 JTF-GTMO DAB recommended transfer
00202Mahmmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef2002-02-072016-01-06transferred to Ghana ?
00221Ali Mohsen Salih2002-02-112007-06-18transfer2004-09-17 JTF-GTMO DAB recommended transfer
00223Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghiyth Sulayman2002-02-112016-08-15transferred to the United Arab Emirates[23][24]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00224Abd Al Rahman Abdullah Ali Muhammad2002-02-092015-01-14Transferred to Oman[25][26]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00225Hani Abdul Muslih Al Shulan2002-02-092007-06-18transferred2004-10-15 JTF-GTMO DAB recommended transfer
died in Yemen in 2009.
00233Abdul Al Razzaq Muhammad Salih2002-02-112016-01-13transferred to Oman[18]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00235Saeed Ahmed Mohammed Abdullah Sarem Jarabh2002-02-112016-08-15transferred to the United Arab Emirates[23][24]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00240Abdullah Yahia Yousf al Shabli2002-02-072017-01-05transfer[30]
00242Khaled Qasim2002-05-012010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended continued detention
00249Mohammed Abdullah Al Hamiri2016-04-16Saudi Arabia[20][21][22]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00251Muhhammad Said Bin Salem2002-02-072016-01-13transfer to Oman[36]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00252Yasim Muhammed Basardah2002-02-122010-05-04
00254Muhammad Ali Hussein Khenaina2002-06-082014-12-30
00255Said Muhammed Salih Hatim2002-06-122016-01-13transferred to Oman[18]2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended transfer
00256Atag Ali Abdoh Al-Haj2002-06-122009-12-19
00259Fadil Husayn Salih Hintif2002-02-092015-01-14Transferred to Oman[25][26]
00321Ahmed Yaslam Said Kuman2002-05-032016-04-16Saudi Arabia[20][21][22]
00324Mashur Abdallah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri2002-05-012016-04-16Saudi Arabia[20][21][22]
00434Mustafa Abdul Qawi Abdul Aziz Al Shamyri2002-06-122017-01-16transferred to Oman[19]
00440Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir2002-05-012017-01-05transfer[30]
00441Abdul al-Rahman al-Ziahri2002-02-092016-07-11transferred to Serbia
00461Abdul Rahman Umir Al Qyati2002-05-032016-04-16Saudi Arabia[20][21][22]
00498Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel2002-05-032017-01-16transferred to Oman[19]
00503Saleh Mohamed Al Zuba2002-06-082006-12-15
00506Khalid Mohammed Salih Al Dhuby2002-05-052016-01-06transferred to Ghana
00508Salman Yahya Hassan Mohammed Rabeii2002-05-012017-01-16transferred to Oman[19]
00509Mohammed Nasir Yahya Khusruf2002-05-032016-08-15transferred to the United Arab Emirates[23][24]
00511Sulaiman Awath Sulaiman Bin Ageel Al Nahdi2002-05-052015-11-16transferred to the United Arab Emirates.[31]
00522Yasin Qasem Muhammad Ismail2002-05-01
00549Omar Said Salim Al Dayi2002-02-152016-01-13transferred to Oman[18] ?
00550Walid Said Bin Said Zaid2002-05-032017-01-16transferred to Oman[19]
00553Abdul Khaled Al-Baydani2002-05-012014-11-20
00554Fahmi Salem Said Al Sani2002-02-152015-11-16transferred to the United Arab Emirates.[31]
00564Jalal Salam Bin Amer2002-06-142015-06-13Transferred to Oman[27]
00566Mansour Muhammed Ali Al-Qatta2002-06-182016-04-16Saudi Arabia[20][21][22]
00569Zuhail Abdo Anam Said Al Sharabi2002-05-05
00570Sabri Mohammed Ebrahim Al Qurashi2002-05-052014-12-30
00574Hamoud Abdullah Hamoud Hassan Al Wady2002-06-082013-12-16
00575Saad Masir Mukbl Al Azani2002-06-182015-06-13Transferred to Oman[27]
00576Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun2002-05-052016-08-15transferred to the United Arab Emirates[23][24]
00577Jamal Muhammad Alawi Mar'i2002-05-012009-12-19
00578Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi2002-05-03
00586Karam Khamis Sayd Khamsan2002-05-012005-08-19
00627Ayman Saeed Abdullah Batarfi2002-05-012009-12-19
00678Fawaz Naman Hamoud Abdallah Mahdi2002-06-182007-06-18
00679Mohmmad Ahmad Ali Tahar2002-06-142009-12-19
00680Emad Abdalla Hassan2002-06-182015-06-13Transferred to Oman[27]
00681Mohammed Mohammed Hassen2002-06-182010-07-13received habeas corpus
00683Fayad Yahya Ahmed2002-06-182009-12-19
00686Abdel Ghalib Ahmad Hakim2002-06-182014-11-20
00688Fahmi Abdullah Ahmed2002-06-18
00689Mohammed Ahmed Salam2002-06-182015-01-14Transferred to Oman[25][26]
00690Ahmed Abdul Qader2002-06-182015-01-14Transferred to Estonia[25][26]
00691Mohammed Ali Salem Al Zarnuki2002-06-182015-06-13Transferred to Oman[27]
00692Ali Bin Ali Aleh2002-06-182009-09-26
00693Ali Abdullah Ahmed2002-06-182006-06-10Died in custody
00728Jamil Ahmed Said Nassir2002-08-052016-08-15transferred to the United Arab Emirates[23][24]
00836Ayoub Murshid Ali Saleh2002-10-282016-08-15transferred to the United Arab Emirates[23][24]
00837Bashir Nashir Al-Marwalah2002-10-282016-08-15transferred to the United Arab Emirates[23][24]
00838Shawki Awad Balzuhair2002-10-282016-12-04transferred to Cape Verde.[37]
00839Musab Omar Ali Al Mudwani2002-10-282017-01-16transferred to Oman[19]
00840Ha Il Aziz Ahmed Al Maythali2002-10-282017-01-16transferred to Oman[19]
00841Sa id Salih Sa id Nashir2002-10-28
01014Walid Mohammed Shahir2003-05-092004-03-31
01015Hussein Salem Mohammed2003-05-092014-11-20
01017Omar Mohammed Ali Al Rammah2003-05-09
01453Sanad Ali Yislam Al-Kazimi2004-09-20
01456Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash2004-09-20
01457Al Hajj Abdu Ali Sharqawi2004-09-20
01463Abdul Al Salam Al Hilal2004-09-20
10013Ramzi bin al-Shibh2006-09-05
10014Walid bin 'Attash2006-09-05

See also

References

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