Wisam ‘Abd al-Rahman Ahmed

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Wisam ‘Abd al-Rahman Ahmed (also transliterated as Osam Abdul Rahan Ahmad) is a citizen of Jordan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo detainee ID number is 1018. Intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1976 in Al-Zarqa, Jordan.

Ahmed was returned to Jordan in April 2004.[2] Amnesty International reports:

"According to the US Department of Defense, the decision to transfer or release him was, 'based on many factors, including whether the detainee is of further intelligence value to the United States and whether he is believed to pose a threat to the United States'."

Amnesty reports that Ahmed was captured in March 2002, and held for fourteen months in an underground prison. Amnesty has tried to interview Ahmad, without success, and believes he is in an unknown Jordanian prison on unknown charges.

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  1. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
  2. ^ Guantánamo: Lives torn apart – The impact of indefinite detention on detainees and their families, Amnesty International, February 6, 2006