peoplepill id: abdulhadi-abdallah-ibrahim-al-sharakh-1
AAIAS
1 views today
1 views this week
Abdulhadi Abdallah Ibrahim al Sharakh

Abdulhadi Abdallah Ibrahim al Sharakh

The basics

Quick Facts

Birth
1982
Age
43 years
The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

A total of 133 Saudi citizens have been held in the United States'Guantanamo Bay detention camps at its naval base in Cuba since January 2002. Most had been swept up in Afghanistan following the US invasion in the fall of 2001, and they were classified by the US government as enemy combatants.

In addition, a United States citizen, Yaser Esam Hamdi, who was born in Louisiana but moved as a child with his parents to Saudi Arabia, where he also had citizenship, was initially held there. As an American citizen, he was transferred to a military prison brig on the mainland of the United States. His challenge to his detention, without being informed of charges or brought to trial, was a case that reached the United States Supreme Court. In Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004), the Supreme Court ruled that detainees who are U.S. citizens must have the rights of due process, and the ability to challenge their enemy combatant status before an impartial authority. After this decision, the government made a deal with Hamdi. After he agreed to renounce his US citizenship and observe travel restrictions, in October 2004 Hamdi was deported to Saudi Arabia. He has returned to his family.

Following the deaths of two Saudi citizens in custody on June 10, 2006, and another on May 30, 2007, which the Department of Defense claimed were due to suicides, the Saudi government put pressure on the United States to release its citizens. Nearly 100 were returned to Saudi Arabia from June 2006 through 2007.

As of today, eleven Saudi citizens are still held at the detention camp.

History

Tolfiq Nassar Ahmed al Bihani, a citizen from Saudi Arabia at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp

In January 2002, the United States completed the first phase of construction of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp at its naval base in Cuba. It was designed to hold enemy combatants captured in its war on terror - most taken during action in Afghanistan beginning in the fall of 2001. In total, the US has held 133 Saudi Arabian citizens at Guantanamo. The United States has held a total of 778 detainees in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps at its naval base in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002. The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. As of January 2017, 45 detainees remain at Guantanamo.

Three Saudis: Yasser Talal Al Zahrani, Mani Shaman Turki al-Habardi Al-Utaybi and Abdul Rahman al-Amri, died at Guantanamo in 2006 and 2007 during their detention. All were announced by the United States Department of Defense (DOD) as suicides.

The first two were among three men who died on June 10, 2006; the circumstances of their deaths have been strongly questioned by numerous sources, including the Saudi government and the men's families. Journalists and the Center for Policy and Research in its 2009 report have noted glaring inconsistencies in the NCIS report of 2008. Based on an account by four former guards at Guantanamo, Scott Horton suggested in 2010 that the men died as a result of torture and government agencies tried to cover this up.

Al-Amri died on May 30, 2007, as an apparent suicide, according to DOD.

As a result of these deaths, the Saudi government strongly pressured the United States to repatriate its citizens. It developed a reintegration program for former detainees and has worked with them on religious re-education, and reintegrating them into society by arranging for marriages and jobs. From June 2006 and December 2007, a total of 93 Saudi citizens were returned to the country. As of today, eleven Saudi citizens are still held at the detention camp.

Saudi citizens held in Guantanamo

release
date		isnnamenotes
2007-12-295Abdul Aziz Al Matrafi
2007-07-1613Fahed Nasser Mohamed
  • Reports being tortured in custody.
  • Reports being sold for a bounty.
  • Repatriated on July 16, 2007 with fifteen other men.
2007-02-2025Majeed Abdullah Al Joudi
  • Defense Department's April 7, 2009 analysis of Guantanamo recidivists lists Joudi as a "confirmed" recidivist.
2015-09-2142Abdul Rahman Shalabi
  • On hunger strike for more than five years. Reportedly suffering health problems caused by the hunger strike. Shalabi has been force fed for many years by means of strapping him forcefully into a restraint chair and pumping liquid nutrients through his nose into his stomach. Shalabi said after enduring this procedure for over four years, it causes him extreme pain and he feels as if he is treated like an animal.
Held49Assem Matruq Mohammad Al Aasmi
2007-09-0551Majid Al Barayan
2007-07-1553Saud Dakhil Allah Muslih Al Mahayawi
2006-12-1355Muhammed Yahia Mosin Al Zayla
2006-06-2458Musa Abed Al Wahab
2007-11-0959Sultan Ahmed Dirdeer Musa Al Uwaydha
2007-07-1562Muhamad Naji Subhi Al Juhani
  • Described as having "no ties to militancy whatsoever".
Held63Mohammed al-Qahtani
  • Allegedly tried to enter the United States to take part in the September 11 attacks as the 20th hijacker.
  • Tortured in Guantanamo.
2006-05-1864Abdel Hadi Mohammed Badan Al Sebaii Sebaii
  • Allegedly built mosques in Bosnia.
  • Claims he was sold, for a bounty.
2007-07-1566Yahya Samil Al Suwaymil Al Sulami
  • Described as having "no ties to militancy whatsoever".
2007-11-0968Khalid Saud Abd Al Rahman Al Bawardi
2003-05-1471Mish'al Muhammad Rashid Al-Shedocky
  • Released prior to the institution of the Combatant Status Review Tribunals in July 2004.
  • One of 11 former Guantanamo detainees listed on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's most wanted list in February 2009
  • In 2014, AQAP indicated in a three-part documentary about the group's former deputy leader Said Ali al-Shihri's life and death that al-Shedocky was dead by having the phrase "May Allah accept him" posted next to his name. The phrase is reserved for jihadists who have been killed in battle. The group did not provide any details on al-Shedocky's death.
2006-06-2473Yusif Khalil Abdallah Nur
2007-12-2874Mesh Arsad Al Rashid
  • Repatriated on December 2, 2007, with nine other men.
2007-09-0579Fahed Al Harazi
2003-05-1480Fahd Abdallah Ibrahim Al-Shabani
  • Released prior to the institution of the Combatant Status Review Tribunals in July 2004.
Died in custody93Yasser Talal Al Zahrani
  • US government withheld body parts needed for independent post mortem.
2006-05-1894Ibrahim Daif Allah Neman Al Sehli
  • Released May 19, 2006.
2006-05-1895Abdul Rahman Ahmed Uthman
2006-06-2496Muhammad Surur Dakhilallah Al Utaybi
2006-05-18105Adnan Muhammed Ali Al Saigh
  • One of 11 former Guantanamo detainees listed on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's most wanted list in February 2009
  • Turned himself in to Saudi authorities July 2012
  • author of "The Fight over the Mountains" for Inspire magazine, Summer 2010 issue.
2006-12-13109Yusef Abdullah Saleh Al Rabiesh
2007-09-05112Abdul Aziz Saad Al Khaldi
2007-11-09114Yussef Mohammed Mubarak Al Shihri
  • 14 years old when captured.
  • Killed in a shootout with Saudi security forces along the Saudi border with Yemen in October 2009.
  • When killed, Yousef al Shihri was dressed as a woman
  • Shihri's female garments concealed a suicide explosives belt
2006-12-13121Salman Saad Al Khadi Mohammed
  • Released with thirteen other men on November 12, 2007.
2007-07-15122Bijad Thif Allah Al Atabi
  • Repatriated on July 16, 2007 with fifteen other men.
  • Present during the riot at Mazari Sharif.
2003-05-14125Fawaz Abd Al Aziz Al Zahrani
  • Repatriated on May 15, 2003, and then convicted of leaving Saudi Arabia without getting prior permission.
2007-09-05126Salam Abdullah Said
2003-05-14127Ibrahim Rushdan Brayk Al Shili
  • Released prior to the institution of the Combatant Status Review Tribunals in July 2004.
2007-11-09130Faha Sultan
2006-06-24132Abdul Salam Gaithan Mureef Al Shehry
  • 17 years old when captured.
2007-07-15154Mazin Salih Musaid Al Awfi
  • Repatriated on July 16, 2007 with fifteen other men.
2005-07-19155Khalid Sulaymanjaydh Al Hubayshi
  • There is no record this captive participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
2006/05/19157Saed Khatem Al Malki
  • Repatriated May 19, 2006.
2007-02-20158

Majid Abdallah Husayn Muhammad Al Samluli Al Harbi

2007-09-28172Ali Muhammed Nasir Mohammed
2007-02-20176Majid Aydha Muhammad Al Qurayshi
2006-05-18177Fahd Salih Sulayman Al Jutayli
  • Was a minor when captured.
  • Reportedly killed in a shootout between the Yemeni Army and Houthi rebels in 2009
2007-07-15179Abdul Rahman Owaid Mohammad Al Juaid
  • Repatriated on July 16, 2007 with fifteen other men.
  • Described as having "no ties to militancy whatsoever".
2005-11-04181Maji Afas Radhi Al Shimri
  • There is no record this captive participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
2007-07-15182Bandar Ahmad Mubarak Al Jabri
  • Repatriated on July 16, 2007 with fifteen other men.
2006-06-24184Othman Ahmed Othman Al Omairah
  • Following his transfer, reportedly became an operational commander for al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula
2007-11-09185Turki Mash Awi Zayid Al Asiri
  • Allegedly fled from the American aerial bombardment of Afghanistan.
  • One of 11 former Guantanamo detainees listed on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's most wanted list in February 2009
2007-02-20186Rashed Awad Khalaf Balkhair
  • There is no record this captive participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
2007-11-09187Murtadha Al Said Makram
  • One of 11 former Guantanamo detainees listed on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's most wanted list in February 2009
2006-12-13188Jabir Jubran Al Fayfi
  • One of 11 former Guantanamo detainees listed on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's most wanted list in February 2009
2006-06-24191Saleh Ali Jaid Al Khathami
2006-12-13192Ibrahimj Sulayman Muhammad Arbaysh
  • Repatriated on December 14, 2006.
  • Following Repatriation, reportedly became al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula's chief theologian and ideologue, responsible for justifying terrorism on religious grounds
2016-01-11195Mohammad Al Rahman Al Shumrani
2007-09-05196Musa Ali Said Al Said Al Amari
Died in custody199Abdul Rahman Ma Ath Thafir Al Amri
Held200Said Muhammad Husayn Qahtani
2007-07-15204Said Ibrahim Ramzi Al Zahrani
2006-12-13206Abdullah Muahammed Abdel Aziz
2005-07-19207Mishal Awad Sayaf Alhabiri
  • Suffered serious brain damage in Guantanamo.
  • Alleged serious beatings in Guantanamo.
2007-07-15214Muhammad Abd Al Rahman Al Kurash
2007-11-09215Fahd Umr Abd Al Majid Al Sharif
2007-12-28216Jamil Ali Al Kabi
  • There is no record this captive participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
2007-09-05218Fahd Muhammed Abdullah Al Fouzanin extrajudicial detention in Guantanamo Bay detainment camp because heattended an "Abu Nasir military camp".
2006-12-13226Anwar Al Nurr
  • There is no record this captive participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
2007-07-15230Humud Dakhil Humud Sa'id Al-Jad'an
  • Claims he was sold for a bounty.
  • Repatriated on July 16, 2007 with fifteen other men.
  • Listed in the DoD's April 2009 recidivism analysis as a "suspected" recidivist.
2007-09-05231Abdulhadi Abdallah Ibrahim al Sharakh
  • There is no record this captive participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
  • Included in the DoD's April 2009 analysis as a "suspected" recidivist due to his September 2008 arrest "for association with terrorist members" and "supporting terrorism."
2007-07-15234Khalid Mohammed Al Zaharni
  • There is no record this captive participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
  • Repatriated on July 16, 2007 with fifteen other men.
2015-10-30239Shaker Aamer
  • Alleges abuse.
  • Mental health at risk.
Held240Abdullah Yahia Yousf Al Shabli
2007-12-28243Abdullah Ali Al Utaybi
2006-12-13245Al Silm Haji Hajjaj Awwad Al Hajjaji
2005-07-19248Saleh Abdall Al Oshan
  • Determined not to have been an enemy combatant.
2007-11-09258Nayif Abdallah Ibrahim Ibrahim
  • There is no record this captive participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
2007-07-15261Juma Mohammed Abdul Latif Al Dosari
  • Allegedly delivered a fiery speech in Buffalo NY that was attended by members of the Lackawanna Six.
  • Says he has been tortured, and has made over a dozen suicide attempts.
  • Joint citizen of both Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
2007-11-09262Abdullah Abd Al Mu'in Al Wafti
  • There is no record this captive participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
2006-06-24264Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman Abdul Aziz Al Baddah
2006-06-24265Tariqe Shallah Hassan Al Harbi
2006-06-24266Abdallah Muhammad Salih Al Ghanimi
2007-12-28268Abdul Rahman Nashi Badi Al Hataybi
2006-06-24271Ibrahim Muhammed Ibrahim Al Nasir
2007-12-28272Zaid Binsallah Mohammed Il Bhawith
  • Repatriated on December 2, 2007, with nine other men.
2006-12-13273Abd Al Aziz Muhammad Ibrahim Al Nasir
2007-09-05274Bader Al Bakri Al Samiri
2006-12-13286Ziad Said Farg Jahdari
  • Repatriated on December 14, 2006.
2005-09-30287Sami Abdul Aziz Salim Allaithy
  • Alleges a guard jumped on his spine putting him in a wheel chair.
  • Determined not to have been an enemy combatant.
2006-05-18308Adil Uqla Hassan Al Nusayri
  • Claims he was captured by the Taliban, who sold him to bounty hunters, who in turn sold him to the Americans.
  • Repatriated on December 14, 2006.
2007-09-05318Rami Bin Said Al Taibi
2006-05-18319Mohammed Jayed Sebai
  • Repatriated together with fourteen other men on May 19, 2006.
2007-09-05322Khalid Hassan Husayn Al Barakat
2010-o9-16331Ohmed Ahmed Mahamoud Al Shurfa
2007-07-15332Abdullah Al Tayabi
  • Repatriated on July 16, 2007 with fifteen other men.
2007-11-09333Mohamed Atiq Awayd Al Harbi
  • After transfer from Guantanamo Bay, became a leader of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
  • One of 11 former Guantanamo detainees listed on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's most wanted list in February 2009 He surrendered to Saudi authorities that same month.
2009-06-12335Kahlid Saad Mohammed
  • Allegedly injured by the American aerial bombardment of Afghanistan, 2001, while distributing humanitarian aid to refugees.
2006-12-13336Majed Hamad Al Frih
  • There is no record this captive participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
2006-06-24337Sa ad Ibraham Sa ad Al Bidna
2006-06-24338Wasim
aka
Wasm Awwad Omar Al-Wasm
  • His habeas corpus was "administrative closed" on January 31, 2007.
2006-05-18339Khalid Abdallah Abdel Rahman Al Morghi
2006-12-13340Bessam Muhammed Saleh Al Dubaikey
  • Claims that a head injury left him with mental problems.
2006-12-13341Said Ali Al Farha
  • There is no record this captive participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
2007-09-05342Mohammed Mubarek Salah Al Qurbi
2006-05-18343Abdallah Ibrahim Al Rushaydan
2006-06-24344Rashid Abdul Mosleh Qayed
2006-05-18346Said Bezan Ashek Shayban
2007-09-05368Amran Baqur Mohammed Hawsawi
  • Was injured during the American aerial bombardment of Afghanistan, 2001.
2007-07-15370Abd Al Hizani
2007-11-09372Sa Id Ali Jabir Al Khathim Al Shihri
  • Was the #2 in al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula
  • Reportedly responsible for the attack on Flight 253 on Christmas Day 2009*May have been involved in al-Qieda's attack on the American embassy in Sanaa in September 2008
  • One of 11 former Guantanamo detainees listed on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's most wanted list in February 2009
  • Killed in a drone strike in Yemen in 2013.
2007-12-28436Nayif Fahd Mutliq Al Usaymi
2007-02-20437Faizal Saha Al Nasir
2007-11-09438Hani Saiid Mohammad Al Khalif
2007-12-28439Khalid Malu Shia Al Ghatani
  • Was a minor when captured.
2017-01-05440Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir
  • Explained that the allegations arose from a false confession beaten out of them by General Dostum's forces.
  • The Center for Constitutional Rights filed an emergency injunction in an attempt to ease what they described as the brutality of the force-feedings imposed upon hunger strikers.
2007-09-05493Abdul Hakim Bukhary
  • Passed straight from detention in a Taliban prison to detention in an American prison.
  • A Saudi named Abdel-Hakee Abdel-Karim Ameen Bukhari was repatriated on September 16, 2007.
2006-05-18501Nawwaf Fahd Humood Al-Otaibi
  • Repatriated together with fourteen other men on May 19, 2006.
2006-05-18505Khalid Rashd Ali Al Muri
  • There is no record this captive participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
  • Repatriated together with fourteen other men on May 19, 2006.
2006-12-13507Sultan Sari Sayel Al Anazi
  • Claimed he was sold for a bounty.
2006-12-13513Abdul Rahman Mohammed Hussein Khowlanpp
2007-09-05514Abdallah Faris Al Unazi Thani
  • There is no record this captive participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
2007-07-15516Ghanim Abdul Rahman Al Harbi
  • Repatriated to Saudi custody, with fifteen other men, on July 16, 2007.
2007-02-20536Mohamed Abdullah Al Harbi
  • Released with thirteen other men on November 12, 2007.
Held553Abdul Khaled Ahmed Sahleh Al Bedani
2007-12-28565Abdul Hakim Abdul Rahman Abdulaziz Al Mousa
Held566Mansoor Muhammed Ali Qattaa
2007-7-16570Sabri Mohammed Ebrahim Al Qurashi
Held572Slah Muhamed Salih Al Zabe
2003-05-14585Ibrahim Umar Ali Al Umar
  • Released prior to the institution of the Combatant Status Review Tribunals in July 2004.
Died in custody588Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi
  • Seventeen years old when captured.
  • Was on a hunger strike for over nine months, before his death was reported on June 10, 2006.
2007-09-05647Zaban Thaaher Zaban Al Shamaree
  • There is no record this captive participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
2007-11-09650Jabir Hasan Muhamed Al Qahtani
2006-05-18652Abdullah Hamid Al Qahtani
  • Repatriated together with fourteen other men on May 19, 2006.
2006-05-18664Rashid Awad Rashid Al Uwaydah
  • Repatriated together with fourteen other men on May 19, 2006.
2009-06-12669Ahmed Zaid Salim Zuhair
  • Repatriated on June 12, 2009 with two other men.
Held682Ghassan Abdallah Ghazi Al Shirbi
  • Faces charges before a military commission.
2009-06-12687Abdalaziz Kareem Salim Al Noofayaee
  • Repatriated on June 12, 2009 with two other men.
2017-01-18696Jabran Said Wazar Al Qahtani
  • There is no record this captive participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
  • Faces charges before a military commission.
2014-11-22713Muhammed Murdi Issa Al Zahrani
  • There is no record this captive participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
Held768Ahmed Muhammed Haza Al Darbi
  • Testified for the court martial of Damien Corsetti, one of the soldiers accused of a role in the Bagram torture and prisoner abuse scandal where two captives were beaten to death.
Held893Tolfiq Nassar Ahmed Al Bihani
  • There is no record this captive participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
Held1456Hassan Mohammed Salih Bin Attash
  • Human rights groups report he was kept in "the dark prison".
  • Was a minor when captured.
  • Human rights groups suggest he was captured just because his older brother was a member of al Qaeda.

Saudi rehabilitation

A July 26, 2007 article from Asharq Alawsat described the Care Rehabilitation Center repatriated detainees are held in until they are finally released. According to the article the detainees received special meals, had access to satellite TV, and were able to get day passes.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited the facility on November 2, 2008, and spoke with several former Guantanamo detainees.

Defection

The Saudi Arabian government has published four Saudi lists of "most wanted" suspected terrorists. On February 3, 2009, the Saudi Arabian government published a list of 85 suspected terrorists. Unlike the previous three lists, the most recent list was reported to name eleven former Guantanamo captives.

The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Abdulhadi Abdallah Ibrahim al Sharakh is in following lists

By category

Detainees of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp

comments so far.
Comments
From our partners
Sponsored
Credits
References and sources
http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/country/saudi-arabia
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/16/510089954/10-guantanamo-prisoners-freed-in-oman-45-detainees-remain
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/01/hbc-90006368
https://web.archive.org/web/20070927194411/http://www.cfnews13.com/News/International/2007/5/31/u.s._dead_detainee_was_of_high_value.html
http://www.cfnews13.com/News/International/2007/5/31/u.s._dead_detainee_was_of_high_value.html
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2009/05/30/forgotten-the-second-anniversary-of-a-guantanamo-suicide/
http://humanrights.ucdavis.edu/projects/the-guantanamo-testimonials-project/testimonies/prisoner-testimonies/who-are-the-16-saudis-released-from-guantanamo
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=98598&d=17&m=7&y=2007&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-worthington/who-are-the-16-saudis-rel_b_56810.html
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/06/saudi_gitmo_recidivi.php
Abdulhadi Abdallah Ibrahim al Sharakh
arrow-left arrow-right instagram whatsapp myspace quora soundcloud spotify tumblr vk website youtube pandora tunein iheart itunes