Turki Mash Awi Zayid Al Asiri

{{main|Combatant Status Review Tribunal}}

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for his tribunal. The memo listed the following allegations against him:

{{cite web

|url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_mar05.pdf#203

|title = Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- name redacted

|date = 5 October 2004

|author = OARDEC

|author-link = OARDEC

|pages = 203–204

|publisher = United States Department of Defense

|access-date = 2007-12-07

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060731081044/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_mar05.pdf#203

|archive-date = 31 July 2006

}}

{{cite web

|url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000101-000200.pdf#92

|title = Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Turki Mash Awi Zayid Al Asiri

|date = 5 October 2004

|author = OARDEC

|author-link = OARDEC

|pages = 92–93

|publisher = United States Department of Defense

|access-date = 2007-12-07

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080507052740/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000101-000200.pdf#92

|archive-date = 7 May 2008

}}

{{Quotation|

:a. The detainee is associated with al Qaida or Taliban forces:

:#The detainee is a Saudi Arabian citizenThe phrase "a Saudi Arabian citizen" was redacted from the version released in March 2005. who volunteered to travel to Afghanistan via a flight from the United Arab Emirates to Karachi, Pakistan; to Hyderabad, Pakistan; to Safa, Pakistan; to Baker, Pakistan, and finally to a guesthouse in Kandahar, Afghanistan prior to 11 September 2001.

:#The detainee trained at the al Farouq camp for about one month.

:#The detainee received physical exercise and weapons training while at the al Farouq camp.

:#The detainee was in Jalalabad, Afghanistan on 11 September 2001 when the attacks occurred in the United States.

:#The detainee stated that due to the bombing by the United States, he and others retreated from Jalalabad, Afghanistan to the mountains, approximately three weeks after the 11 September 2001 attacks.

:#The detainee stated he traveled throughout Pakistan and Afghanistan for approximately six or seven months prior to his capture by Pakistani forces in December 2001.

:#An alias that may be associated with this detainee was listed on a document recovered during raids against al Qaida associates.

}}

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Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings. The Administrative Review Boards were not authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they were not authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".

They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat—or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free.

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for

Turki Mash Awi Zayid Al Asiri's

first annual

Administrative Review Board,

on 9 September 2005.

{{cite web

|url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000197-000294.pdf#16

|title = Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Turki Mash Awi Zayid Al Asiri

|date = 9 September 2005

|author = OARDEC

|author-link = OARDEC

|pages = 16–19

|publisher = United States Department of Defense

|access-date = 2007-12-07

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080716131121/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000197-000294.pdf#16

|archive-date = 16 July 2008

}}

The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

The four page memo listed

twenty-six

"primary factors favor[ing] continued detention" and

two

"primary factors favor[ing] release or transfer".

The allegations he faced included:

• He was alleged to have sold his car to raise funds to travel to Afghanistan after hearing a fatwa from Sheikh Hamoud Alaugla.
• He was alleged to have been employed by the Al Rajhi Foundation to pass out Korans and work at an orphanage.
• He was alleged to have traveled to Afghanistan for jihadist training with Abu Bakr Al Jazairi.
• He was alleged to have traveled with three Tablighi Jamaat pilgrims he met in Pakistan.
• He was alleged to have been captured with an address book that contained names and phone numbers in Arabic.
• A satellite phone captured on October 7, 2001 had phoned one of the numbers also found in Turki's address book.
• A booklet found in a crate of ammunition contained phone numbers, including one also found in Turki's address book.
• A phone number found in his address book, may have been one of Amanullah Zadran, the younger brother of Pacha Khan Zadran, a local militia leader who did not always comply with direction from Hamid Karzai's government.Pacha Khan Zadran was elected to Afghanistan's National Assembly in 2004. Hamid Karzai appointed Amanullah Zadran his Minister of the Interior in 2002.
• His name was alleged to have been found on "a document listing 324 Arabic names, aliases, and nationalities". This list was during a safe house raid in Karachi. His entry on this list was alleged to have contained his name, alias, passport, and ATM card.

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for

Turki Mish'awi Za'id Alj-Amri's second annual

Administrative Review Board,

on 9 May 2006.

{{cite web

|url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_200-298.pdf#68

|title = Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Alj-Amri, Turki Mish'awi Za'id

|date = 9 May 2006

|author = OARDEC

|author-link = OARDEC

|pages = 68–72

|publisher = United States Department of Defense

|access-date = 2007-12-07

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080507045242/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_200-298.pdf#68

|archive-date = 7 May 2008

}}

The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

On November 25, 2008, the Department of Defense published a list of when captives left Guantanamo.

{{cite news

|url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/09-F-0031_doc1.pdf

|title = Consolidated chronological listing of GTMO detainees released, transferred or deceased

|publisher = Department of Defense

|author = OARDEC

|author-link = OARDEC

|date = 2008-10-09

|access-date = 2008-12-28

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081220004442/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/09-F-0031_doc1.pdf

|archive-date = 2008-12-20

}}

According to that list he was repatriated to Saudi custody on November 9, 2007, with thirteen other men.

The records published from the captives' annual Administrative Reviews show his repatriation was not the outcome of the formal internal review procedures.

{{cite web

|url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_transfer_release_decision_ARB_Round_1.pdf

|title = Index to Transfer and Release Decision for Guantanamo Detainees

|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/20071203004353/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_transfer_release_decision_ARB_Round_1.pdf

|archive-date = December 3, 2007

}}

{{cite web

|url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_2_Decision_Memos.pdf

|title = Index of Transfer and Release Decision for Guantanamo Detainees from ARB Round Two

|author = OARDEC

|author-link = OARDEC

|publisher = United States Department of Defense

|date = August 10, 2007

|access-date = 2007-09-29

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080227125640/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_2_Decision_Memos.pdf

|archive-date = February 27, 2008

}}

{{cite news

|url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB3FactorIndex8Jan09.pdf

|title = Index to Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for Administrative Review Boards (Round 3) Held at Guantanamo

|publisher = United States Department of Defense

|date = 2009-01-09

|access-date = 2009-01-22

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090125033134/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB3FactorIndex8Jan09.pdf

|archive-date = 2009-01-25

}}

The records show his detention was not reviewed in 2007.

At least ten other men in his release group were not repatriated through the formal review procedure.

Peter Taylor writing for the BBC News called the Saudis repatriated on November 9, 2007, with Al Assiri, "batch 10".

{{cite news

|url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8454804.stm

|title = Yemen al-Qaeda link to Guantanamo Bay prison

|publisher = BBC News

|date = 2010-01-13

|author = Peter Taylor

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100116042100/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8454804.stm

|archive-date = 2010-01-16

|url-status = dead

}}

He wrote that the BBC's research had found this batch to be a problematic cohort, and that four other men from this batch were named on the Saudi most wanted list.

On February 3, 2009, the Saudi government published a list of 85 "most wanted" suspected terrorists, that included an individual identified as "Turki Mashawi Al Aseery".

{{cite news

|url = http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2009020428379

|title = Names keep climbing on infamous terror list

|publisher = Saudi Gazette

|author = Mansour Al-Shihri, Khaled A-Shalahi

|date = 2009-02-07

|access-date = 2009-02-07

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090210062831/http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2009020428379

|archive-date = 2009-02-10

}}

This list contained ten other former Guantanamo captives.

Half of the eleven former captives listed on most wanted list were also from among the eleven men repatriated on November 9, 2007—in spite of their annual reviews recommending continued detention.

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• [http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2007/11/12/innocents-and-foot-soldiers-the-stories-of-the-14-saudis-just-released-from-guantanamo/ Innocents and Foot Soldiers: The Stories of the 14 Saudis Just Released From Guantánamo] Andy Worthington

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Category:1975 births

Category:2014 deaths

Category:Saudi Arabian extrajudicial prisoners of the United States

Category:Guantanamo detainees known to have been released

Category:Saudi Arabian expatriates in Pakistan

Category:Named on Saudi Arabia's list of most wanted suspected terrorists