| Mazin Salih Musaid al Awfi | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 4, 1979 Medina, Saudi Arabia |
| Detained at | Guantanamo |
| Alternate name | Mazin Salih Musaid Alawfi |
| ISN | 154 |
| Charge(s) | No charge (extrajudicial detention) |
| Status | Repatriated to Saudi custody on on July 16, 2007; now on list of those who have since engaged in terrorism. |
| Occupation | traffic policeman |
Mazin Salih Musaid al Awfi is a Saudi Arabian citizen who was detained in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1]
Musaid's name came to light after Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered the Department of Defense was to release documents from the Guantanamo detainees's Combatant Status Review Tribunals.[1] The Detroit Free Press noted him as one of the detainees who was held, in part, because he was wearing a Casio F91W digital watch.
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Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings. The Administrative Review Boards were not authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they were not authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".
They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat—or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free.
On July 12, 2006 the magazine Mother Jones provided excerpts from the transcripts of a selection of the Guantanamo detainees.[3]
The article informed readers:
More than a dozen detainees were cited for owning cheap digital watches, particularly “the infamous Casio watch of the type used by Al Qaeda members for bomb detonators.”
The article quoted Musaid, and three other watch owners:
:“Millions and millions of people have these types of Casio watches. If that is a crime, why doesn’t the United States arrest and sentence all the shops and people who own them? This is not a logical or reasonable piece of evidence.”
A captive Saudi officials identified as Mazin Al Oufi was repatriated to Saudi custody, with fifteen other men, on July 16, 2007.[4]
On May 20, 2009, the New York Times, citing an unreleased Pentagon document, reported that Department of Defense officials claimed Mazin Salih Musaid al Awfi was one of 74 former Guantanatmo captives who "are engaged in terrorism or militant activity."[5][6]
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