Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel
{{Short description|Yemeni former U.S. prisoner}}
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| date_of_birth = {{Birth year and age|1978}}
| place_of_birth = Ta'iz, Yemen
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| detained_at = Guantanamo
| id_number = 498
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| charge = No charge
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| status = Transferred to Oman on 2017-01-16
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Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel is a citizen of Yemen, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.{{cite web| url=http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf|format=PDF| title=List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006| author=OARDEC| author-link=OARDEC| publisher=United States Department of Defense| date=May 15, 2006| access-date=2007-09-29}} His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 498.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate that he was born in 1978, in Ta'iz, Yemen.
He was transferred to Oman with nine other men, on January 16, 2017.
Inconsistent identification
Haidel was identified inconsistently on official Department of Defense documents:
- He was identified as Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on October 8, 2004.{{cite web|url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf|format = PDF|title = List of detainee who went through complete CSRT process|author = OARDEC|author-link = OARDEC|publisher = United States Department of Defense|date = April 20, 2006|access-date = 2007-09-29|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070930171245/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf|archive-date = September 30, 2007}}{{cite web|url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_CSRT_unclassified_summaries.pdf|format = PDF|title = Index for Combatant Status Review Board unclassified summaries of evidence|author = OARDEC|author-link = OARDEC|publisher = United States Department of Defense|date = July 17, 2007|access-date = 2007-09-29|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071203004259/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_CSRT_unclassified_summaries.pdf|archive-date = December 3, 2007}}{{cite web|url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_CSRT_detainees_testimony.pdf|format = PDF|title = Index for testimony|author = OARDEC|author-link = OARDEC|publisher = United States Department of Defense|date = September 4, 2007|access-date = 2007-09-29|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071203004301/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_CSRT_detainees_testimony.pdf|archive-date = December 3, 2007}}{{cite web|url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_1_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf|format = PDF|title = Index to Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round One|author = OARDEC|author-link = OARDEC|publisher = United States Department of Defense|date = August 9, 2007|access-date = 2007-09-29|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071026130459/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_1_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf|archive-date = October 26, 2007}}{{cite web|url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_2_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf|format = PDF|title = Index of Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round Two|author = OARDEC|author-link = OARDEC|publisher = United States Department of Defense|date = July 17, 2007|access-date = 2007-09-29|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071026130524/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_2_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf|archive-date = October 26, 2007}}{{cite web|url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000400-000499.pdf#26|title = Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Haidel, Mohammed Ahmed Said (published September 2007)|date = 8 October 2004|pages = 26–27|author = OARDEC|author-link = OARDEC|publisher = United States Department of Defense|access-date = 2008-04-21|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071203003522/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000400-000499.pdf#26|archive-date = 3 December 2007}}
- He was identified as Mohammed Mohammed Ahmen Said on the Summary of Evidence memos prepared for his first and second annual Administrative Review Board hearings, on September 28, 2005, and June 7, 2006.{{cite web|url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000394-000494.pdf#60|title = Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Said, Mohammed Mohammed Ahmen|date = 28 September 2005|pages = 60–61|author = OARDEC|author-link = OARDEC|publisher = United States Department of Defense|access-date = 2008-04-21|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080510104113/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000394-000494.pdf#60|archive-date = 10 May 2008}}{{cite web|url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_499-598.pdf#82|title = Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Said, Mohammed Mohammed Ahmen|date = 7 June 2006|pages = 82–84|author = OARDEC|author-link = OARDEC|publisher = United States Department of Defense|access-date = 2008-04-21|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161013173047/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_499-598.pdf#82|archive-date = 13 October 2016}}
Press reports
On July 12, 2006, the magazine Mother Jones provided excerpts from the transcripts of a selection of the Guantanamo detainees.[http://motherjones.com/news/feature/2006/07/detainee_sidebar.html "Why Am I in Cuba?"], Mother Jones, July 12, 2006 Haidel was one of the detainees profiled. According to the article, his transcript contained the following comment:
{{blockquote|When I was in the Kandahar prison, the interrogator hit my arm and told me I received training in mortars. As he was hitting me, I kept telling him, "No, I didn't receive training." I was crying and finally I told him I did receive the training. My hands were tied behind my back and my knees were on the ground and my head was bleeding. I was in a lot of pain, so I said I had the training. At that point, with all my suffering, if he had asked me if I was Osama bin Laden, I would have said yes…. Am I an enemy of the United States? I never knew any Americans until I came to this prison. Americans should know who their real enemies are. What is my crime for being here for three years? That is all I would like to say.}}
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.{{cite news|url = https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-10-11-guantanamo-combatants_N.htm|title = U.S. military reviews 'enemy combatant' use|publisher = USA Today|date = 2007-10-11|archive-date = 2007-10-23|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071023220558/http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-10-11-guantanamo-combatants_N.htm|url-status = live|quote = 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.}}
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=
File:Trailer where CSR Tribunals were held.jpgs were held in a 3x5 meter trailer where the captive sat with his hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor.[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/08/national/08gitmo.html?ex=1257570000&en=4af06725bdf5c086&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt Guantánamo Prisoners Getting Their Day, but Hardly in Court], New York Times, November 11, 2004 - [http://cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=3838 mirror] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930184542/http://cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=3838 |date=2007-09-30 }}[http://www.christusrex.org/www1/news/ft-12-11-04a.htm Inside the Guantánamo Bay hearings: Barbarian "Justice" dispensed by KGB-style "military tribunals"], Financial Times, December 11, 2004]]
Following the Supreme Court's ruling the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants.{{cite news|url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1773140.stm|title = Q&A: What next for Guantanamo prisoners?|publisher = BBC News|date = 2002-01-21|access-date = 2008-11-24|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081123204530/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1773140.stm|archive-date = 23 November 2008|url-status = live}}
Scholars at the Brookings Institution, led by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations:{{cite web| url = https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/1216_detainees_wittes.pdf| title = The Current Detainee Population of Guantánamo: An Empirical Study| publisher = The Brookings Institution| date = 2008-12-16| author1 = Benjamin Wittes| author-link = Benjamin Wittes| author2 = Zaathira Wyne| access-date = 2010-02-16| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170519100934/https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/1216_detainees_wittes.pdf| archive-date = 2017-05-19| url-status = live}}
- Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel was listed as one of the captives who(m):
:*"The military alleges ... are associated with both Al Qaeda and the Taliban."
:*"The military alleges ... traveled to Afghanistan for jihad."
:*"The military alleges that the following detainees stayed in Al Qaeda, Taliban or other guest- or safehouses."
:*"The military alleges ... took military or terrorist training in Afghanistan."
:*"The military alleges ... fought for the Taliban."
:*"The military alleges ... were at Tora Bora."
- Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel was listed as one of the "82 detainees made no statement to CSRT or ARB tribunals or made statements that do not bear materially on the military's allegations against them."
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on October 8, 2004.{{cite web|url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_mar05.pdf#103|title = Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal|date = March 2005| orig-date = 8 October 2004|pages = 103–104|author = OARDEC|author-link = OARDEC|publisher = United States Department of Defense|access-date = 2008-04-21|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060731081044/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_mar05.pdf#103|archive-date = 31 July 2006}}
Haidel chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.{{cite web| url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/Reading_Room/Detainee_Related/Set_31_2145-2265.pdf#9| title=Summarized Statement| pages=9–11| author=OARDEC| author-link=OARDEC| publisher=United States Department of Defense| access-date=2008-04-21| archive-date=2016-11-05| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105133740/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/Reading_Room/Detainee_Related/Set_31_2145-2265.pdf#9| url-status=dead}} On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a three-page summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.{{cite news| url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/US-releases-Guantanamo-files/2006/04/04/1143916500334.html| title=US releases Guantanamo files| publisher=The Age| date=April 4, 2006| access-date=2008-03-15}}
References
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{{cite news| url = https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/16/510089954/10-guantanamo-prisoners-freed-in-oman-45-detainees-remain| title = 10 Guantanamo Prisoners Freed in Oman; 45 Detainees Remain| publisher = National Public Radio| author = Greg Myre| date = 2017-01-16| access-date = 2017-01-17| quote = The freed prisoners were not identified by name or nationality, though the Oman News Agency, citing the country's Foreign Ministry, reported that the 10 had arrived in the country on Monday for "temporary residence."}}
{{cite news| url = http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/guantanamo/article126793529.html| title = U.S. sends 10 Guantánamo captives to Oman| publisher = Miami Herald| author = Carol Rosenberg| author-link = Carol Rosenberg| date = 2017-01-16| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170117150202/http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/guantanamo/article126793529.html| archive-date = 2017-01-17| url-status = live| quote = A Pentagon official who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed that the transfer had taken place, downsizing the detainee population to 45. Neither Oman nor the official provided the identities of the 10 men who were sent there.}}
{{cite news| url = http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/guantanamo/article127055319.html| title = Victims of mistaken identity among the 10 sent from Guantánamo to Oman| publisher = Miami Herald| author = Carol Rosenberg| author-link = Carol Rosenberg| date = 2017-01-16| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170118032232/http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/guantanamo/article127055319.html| archive-date = 2017-01-18| url-status = live| quote = A Pentagon statement did not explain why the Department of Defense chose to wait to identify the 10 men for more than a day after the Sultanate of Oman announced it had taken them in as "temporary" residents "in consideration to their humanitarian situation."}}
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