Mahmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef

Mahmmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef

Mahmud Omar Ben Atif's official Guantanamo identity portrait, showing him wearing the white uniform issued to compliant individuals.
Released 2016-01-07
Ghana
Citizenship Yemen
ISN 00202
Charge(s) Bin Atef was held in extrajudicial detention
Status released

Mahmmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef is a citizen of Yemen, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 202. American intelligence analysts report that Bin Atef was born in 1980, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

Bin Atef arrived in Guantanamo on February 7, 2002, and was held there until January 7, 2016.[2][3] Bin Atef, and fellow Yemeni captives in Guantanamo Khalid Mohammed Salih Al Dhuby, were the first two individuals to be transferred to a sub-Saharan Africa country—other than the country of their citizenship.[4]

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.[5] 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

Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a 3x5 meter trailer where the captive sat with his hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor.[6][7]

Following the Supreme Court's ruling the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants.[5][8]

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:[9]

Historian Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, trained at the al Farouq training camp, and fought the Northern Alliance on the Taliban's front lines.[10]

Transfer to the USA

On August 31, 2009 Corrections One, a trade journal for the prison industry, speculated that "Omar Khalifa Mohammed Abu Bakr" was one of ten captives they speculated might be moved to a maximum security prison in Standish, Michigan.[11]

Transfer to Ghana

Spencer Ackerman, writing in The Guardian, reported that the US had been negotiating for a year with Ghana, for his release.[4] The imminent release of seventeen individuals from Guantanamo was leaked in December 2015. Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih al-Dhuby were the first two of those seventeen to be released. Both men were freed upon arrival.

References

  1. ↑ 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 (PDF) from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2006-05-15. 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
  2. ↑ "Measurements of Heights and Weights of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (ordered and consolidated version)" (PDF). Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas, from DoD data. Retrieved 2009-12-21. mirror
  3. ↑ Margot Williams (2008-11-03). "Guantanamo Docket: Mahmmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef". New York Times. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
  4. 1 2 Spencer Ackerman (2016-01-07). "US releases two Guantánamo detainees nearly six years after transfer approval". The Guardian (UK). Retrieved 2016-01-07. The announcement of the transfer on Wednesday marks the start of a spate of releases of 17 men the administration intends to free from Guantánamo Bay in January, part of a final initiative by Barack Obama, seeking to empty the detention camp before leaving office. Yet there is deep skepticism, even within his own administration, over whether Obama can fulfill his long-frustrated pledge to close Guantánamo.
  5. 1 2 "U.S. military reviews 'enemy combatant' use". USA Today. 2007-10-11. Archived from the original on 2012-08-11. 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.
  6. ↑ Guantánamo Prisoners Getting Their Day, but Hardly in Court, New York Times, November 11, 2004 - mirror
  7. ↑ Inside the Guantánamo Bay hearings: Barbarian "Justice" dispensed by KGB-style "military tribunals", Financial Times, December 11, 2004
  8. ↑ "Q&A: What next for Guantanamo prisoners?". BBC News. 2002-01-21. Archived from the original on 23 November 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-24. mirror
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Benjamin Wittes, Zaathira Wyne (2008-12-16). "The Current Detainee Population of Guantánamo: An Empirical Study" (PDF). The Brookings Institution. Retrieved 2010-02-16. mirror
  10. ↑ Andy Worthington (2010-09-18). "The Remaining Prisoners In Guantanamo: Captured in Afghanistan (2001)". The Public Record. Retrieved 2016-01-07. Bin Atef is accused of arriving in Afghanistan for jihad in June 2001, training at al-Farouq, and fighting on the Taliban front lines.
  11. ↑ Kathryn Lynch-Morin (2009-08-31). "Profile of 10 U.S.-bound Gitmo detainees". Corrections One. Archived from the original on 2009-09-01. Retrieved 2009-08-02.

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