Salah Abdul Rasool Al Blooshi

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Salah Abdul Rasool Al Blooshi (Arabic: صلاح عبد الرسول البلوشي) is a Bahraini, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1]

On May 15, 2006 the US Department of Defense complied with a court order and released a list of the identities of the Guantaanamo detainees.[2] The DoD calls him Salah Abdul Rasul Ali Abdul Rahman Al Balushi. His Guantanamo detainee ID number is 227. The DoD reports that he was born on February 12, 1981, in Muharraq, Bahrain.

Al Blooshi is represented by Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, Esq. The campaign to free the detainee is being led by Bahraini MP Mohammed Khalid.

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[edit] Second annual Administrative Review Board

The Gulf Daily News reported, on July 2, 2006, that Colangelo-Bryan summarized the allegations against al Blooshi from his second Administrative Review Board.[3]

  1. Specifically, the military asserts that Salah went to Afghanistan long before September 11, 2001, when he heard about Buddhist statues being destroyed at Bamyan.
  2. According to the military, Salah went there to make sure that Afghans were Salafi Muslims.
  3. The military also says that Salah had 300 Bahraini dinars with him and that he stayed with a friend for two weeks in Kandahar.
  4. According to the military, this friend suggested that Salah give his passport to a man who is said to be associated in some way with Al Qaeda.
  5. Finally, the military said that Salah became sick for a month in Jalabad and then travelled to Afghan/Pakistani border.

Colangelo-Bryan asked how, even if the allegations were true, they showed that Al Blooshi had ever represented a threat to the USA.

[edit] Al Blooshi's last interrogation

On July 23, 2006 Colangelo-Bryan described Al Blooshi's last interrogation.[4] He said that the camp authorities acknowledge that 75% of the detainees are no longer interrogated. He estimated that even fewer detainees are currently being interrogated than US spokesment acknowledged.

Al Blooshi has not been interrogated at all in 2006. Colangelo-Bryan said that during his last interrogation Al Blooshi was asked about his activities in the war in Bosnia in 1995.

"Salah responded that he had been aged 14 in 1995 and wasn't anywhere near Bosnia.
"When Salah refused to get into a long discussion in response to such a silly question, his interrogator said that he didn't want Salah to stay at Guantanamo until his hair turned white.
"Salah understood this statement as a threat."

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ 'Help me' plea by Bay detainee, Gulf Daily News, September 5, 2005
  2. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
  3. ^ Bahrain Bay detainee 'poses no danger', Gulf Daily News, July 2, 2006
  4. ^ Bay prisoner 'is no threat', Gulf Daily News, July 23, 2006
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