| Abdullah Ali Al Utaybi | |
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| Born | 1972 (age 39–40) Mecca |
| Released | 2007-12-28 |
| Citizenship | Saudi Arabia |
| Detained at | Guantanamo |
| Alternate name |
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| ISN | 243 |
| Charge(s) | no charge, extrajudicial detention |
Abdullah Ali Al Utaybi was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] Al Utaybi's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 243. American intelligence analysts estimate that Al Utaybi was born in 1972, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
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A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for his tribunal. The memo listed the following allegations:[2][3]
- a. The detainee is associated with al Qaida and the Taliban:
- Originally from Mecca, Saudi Arabia,[4] the detainee left in January 2001 for Afghanistan.
- Detainee was the head of the[5] al Wafa office in Herat, Afghanistan.
- The Herat Office of al Wafa was a key location in al Qaida's support network and the detainee was the linchpin in[6] al Wafa and al Qaida efforts to recruit, train, and infiltrate fighters into Afghanistan.
- Detainee closed the Herat al Wafa[7] and transferred to run the Kandahar al Wafa office[8] after September 2001.
- The nongovernmental organization 'al Wafa' reportedly is believed to possibly be a terrorist organization and may have had connections to Usama bin Ladin and Afghan Mujahedin.
- The al Wafa organization has been identified as a terrorist organization.
- One of the detainee's known aliases was on a list of captured al Qaida members that was discovered on a computer hard drive associated with a senior al Qaida member.
- Detaine used the aliases Bendar al-Ataybi and Abu Faisal.[9]
- Detainee may have trained at the al Qaida Khaldan Camp.
Detainees whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal labeled them "enemy combatants" were scheduled for annual Administrative Review Board hearings. These hearings were designed to assess the threat a detainee may pose if released or transferred, and whether there are other factors that warrant his continued detention.[10]
Summary of Evidence memos were drafted for Al Utaybi's annual reviews in 2005 and 2006.[11][12] The 2005 memo was two pages long and listed 18 factors favoring continued detention and 5 factors favoring release or transfer. The 2006 memo was three pages long. His name was listed as "Bendar Al Ataybi" on the memo. It listed 11 factors favoring continued detention and 6 factors favoring release or transfer.
The Department of Defense published the dates captives departed from Guantanamo on 26 November 2008.[13] According to that list Abdullah Ali Al Utaybi was repatriated on December 28, 2007.
On January 9, 2009 the Department of Defense published the records for the third set of Administrative Review Board hearings, conducted in 2007 and early 2008.[14] According to those records no review was scheduled for Al Utaybi in 2007. According to the records of the 2005 and 2006 Board hearings, those boards had not recommended his repatriation.[15][16] Like the other nine men Al Utaybi was repatriated in spite of the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants recommending his continued detention in US custody.
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