Hani Abdullah

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Hani Abdullah is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1][2][3][4] Hani Abdullah is at the center of a controversy over the CIA]]'s destruction of tapes its use of waterboarding and other "extended interrogation techniques" on "high value detainees", held in its clandestine interrogation centres.

Hani Abdullah is not listed under that name on any of the official lists of captives' names the Department of Defense has published since April 20, 2006. He is instead listed as Sa id Salih Sa id Nashir.

In July 2005 US District Court judge Richard W. Roberts issued a court order prohibiting the CIA destroying evidence [5]

Hani Abdullah's lawyer, Charles Carpenter, brought suit against the CIA for its destruction of tapes it made of its interrogation of suspects, such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah.[1]

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  1. ^ a b Mark Mazzetti, Scott Shane. "Tapes’ Destruction Hovers Over Detainee Cases", New York Times, March 28, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-03-29. "One of the court orders, issued in July 2005 by Judge Richard W. Roberts of the Federal District Court in Washington, required the preservation of all evidence related to Hani Abdullah, the Yemeni prisoner at Guantánamo, who is accused of attending a Qaeda training camp in 2001 and other offenses. Judge Roberts said in a January order that Mr. Abdullah’s lawyers had made a plausible case that Abu Zubaydah would have been asked about their client in interrogations." 
  2. ^ "Destroyed tapes come back to vex CIA", United Press International, March 28, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-03-29. "In a suit brought by Hani Abdullah, a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a federal judge has raised the possibility that the U.S. spy agency violated a court order to preserve all evidence relevant to the prisoner by destroying the tapes, The New York Times reported Friday." 
  3. ^ Matt Apuzzo. "Judge seeking details on CIA tapes", Contra Costa Times, 25 January 2008. Retrieved on 2008-03-29. "Roberts issued a three-page ruling late Thursday siding with Carpenter, who represents Guantanamo Bay detainee Hani Abdullah. The judge said the lawyers had made a preliminary "showing that information obtained from Abu Zubaydah" was relevant to the detainee's lawsuit and should not have been destroyed." 
  4. ^ "U.S. judge orders White House to explain destruction of CIA tapes", CBC News, 25 January 2008. Retrieved on 2008-03-29. "There's enough there that it's worth asking" whether other videos or documents were also destroyed, said attorney Charles Carpenter, who represents Guantanamo Bay detainee Hani Abdullah. "I don't know the answer to that question, but the government does know the answer and now they have to tell Judge Roberts." 
  5. ^ Carol D. Leonnig. "Detainee Evidence Probe Weighed: Judge Told Guantanamo Information May Have Been Destroyed", Washington Post, Saturday, December 22, 2007, pp. Page A02. Retrieved on 2008-01-06.