Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid is a

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i citizen who was held in

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in the

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, in

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, for over fourteen and a half years, from January 11, 2002, to August 15, 2016. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 31.

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analysts report that he was born in August 1980, in

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, Yemen. He arrived in the first cohort of twenty individuals who opened the prison. The Guantanamo Joint Review Task Force classed him as a ''" forever prisoner"'', in 2009. He was transferred to

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, with fourteen other men, on August 15, 2016. He was repatriated to

on 27 October 2021..

Official status reviews

Originally, the Bush

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asserted that captives apprehended in the ''" war on terror"'' were not covered by the

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, and could be held indefinitely, without charge, and without an open and transparent review of the justifications for their detention. In 2004, the

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ruled, in

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, 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

Following the Supreme Court's ruling the

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set up the

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. Scholars at the

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, led by

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, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations: * Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid was listed as one of the captives who ''"The military alleges ... are

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."'' * Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid was listed as one of the captives who ''"The military alleges that the following detainees stayed in Al Qaeda, Taliban or other guest- or safehouses."'' * Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid was listed as one of the captives who ''"The military alleges ... took

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."'' * Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid was listed as one of the captives who ''"The military alleges ... fought for the

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."'' * Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid was listed as one of the captives who ''"The military alleges ...

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."'' * Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid was listed as one of the captives whose ''"names or aliases were found on material seized in raids on Al Qaeda safehouses and facilities."'' * Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid was listed as one of the captives who ''"The military alleges that the following detainees were captured under circumstances that strongly suggest belligerency."'' * Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid was listed as one of the captives who ''"The military alleges ... served on

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."'' * Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid was listed as one of the captives who was an ''" al Qaeda operative"''. * Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid was listed as one of the captives who had ''"denied all the government allegations."'' Al Mujahid chose to participate in his

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Formerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment

On April 25, 2011, whistleblower organization

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published formerly secret assessments drafted by

analysts. His ten-page Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on March 8, 2008. It was signed by camp commandant

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. He recommended continued detention.

References

External links

Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part One: The "Dirty Thirty"
Andy Worthington, September 15, 2010 {{DEFAULTSORT:Mujahid, Mahmoud Abd al Aziz Abd Detainees of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp Yemeni extrajudicial prisoners of the United States Living people 1980 births People from Taiz