| Issa Ali Abdullah al Murbati | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1965 (age 46–47) Manama, Bahrain |
| Detained at | Guantanamo |
| ISN | 52 |
| Charge(s) | No charge (held in extrajudicial detention) |
| Status | Repatriated |
Issa Ali Abdullah al Murbati is a citizen of Bahrain who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1][2] Al Murbati's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 52.[1] American counter-terrorism analysts estimate he was born in 1965, in Manama, Bahrain.
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While held at Kandahar Airfield, al-Muarbati and Moazzam Begg began playing chess on a board the International Red Cross had brought for the detainees.[3]
Al Murbati participated in the hunger strikes of 2005.[4][5]
Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives from the war on terror. This policy was challenged before the Judicial branch. Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct competent tribunals to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of prisoner of war status.
Subsequently the Department of Defense instituted the Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The Tribunals, however, were not authorized to determine whether the captives were lawful combatants -- rather they were merely empowered to make a recommendation as to whether the captive had previously been correctly determined to match the Bush administration's definition of an enemy combatant.
Unusually Al Murbati's dossier contains an Recorder Exhibit List.[6]
| # | Title | Support | Location (Paragraph) |
Classification |
| R1 | Unclassified Summary | UNCLASSIFIED | ||
| R2 | FBI Request for Redaction of National Security Information 15 Sept 04 | Exhibit R8 |
UNCLASSIFIED | |
| R3 | USDHS, Terrorist Org Ref Guide, dtd Jan 04, pg 3 | 3.a.4. | UNCLASSIFIED | |
| R4 | SIR, dtd 18 Dec 02 | 3.a.1. 3.a.2 |
Subject | SECRET |
| R5 | JTF- 170 Knowledgeability Brief, dtd 13 Jun 02 | 3.a.1. 3.a.2. 3.b.1. |
Subject/5.F. Subject 5G |
SECRET |
| R6 | SIR, dtd 8 Oct 02 | 3.a.3, | 2.P.2. | SECRET |
| R7 | FBI 302, dtd 09 Jun 02 | 3.b.1. 3.b.2. 3.b.3. |
10. 8. 9. |
FOUO//LES |
| R8 | Results of Quarterly Review of Community Counterterrorism Tiers | 3.a.4, | Page 2 | SECRET/NOFORN |
| R9 | CITF Assessment 10-JAN-03 | Summary | SECRET//NOFORN | |
| R10 | JTF GTMO Baseball Card | SECRET/NOFORN | ||
| Rll | MFR SA ---------------- 24 September 2004 | FYI | SECRET//NOFORN | |
| Additional information added on 27 Sept 04 per board request of 25 Sept 04 | ||||
| R12 | OARDEC INTEL RS, RESPONSE dtd 25 Sep 04 | R5, pg 3 and date R10 |
SECRET | |
| R13 | JT assessment | R7, pg 2 | SECRET//NOFORN | |
| R8 | Results of Quarterly Review of Community Counterterrorism Tiers | F7, pg 2, | added page 3 | SECRETI/NOFORN |
The allegations against Al Murbati, from the Summary of Evidence memo, prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, were:[7]
- a The detainee is associated with Al Qaeda:
- On November 2, 2001, detainee voluntarily traveled from Bahrain to Afghanistan.
- The detainee traveled to Afghanistan via Pakistan where he planned to fight in the ‘’Jihad’‘.
- Detainee was a follower of Abu Sayyaf
— Abu Sayyef; they met in the Philippines. They discussed getting money to Arabs in Afghanistan.
- Abu Sayyef Group is a known terrorist organization.
- b The detainee participated in military operations against the United States and its coalition partners.
- Detainee was injured by a grenade while traveling to Khowst, Afghanistan, and given treatment at a hospital.
- Detainee was told that if he went to war and fought the Jihad, he would be a better person and have his 15,000 Dinar debt forgiven, and eventually he traveled to Afghanistan.
- Al Murbati discovered that there was not training available in Kandahar, and since he did not know how to use a Kalisnikov rifle, he traveled to Kabul by taxi, after learning there was training there.
Al Murbati is one of the sixteen Guantanamo captives whose amalgamated habeas corpus submissions were heard by US District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton, on January 31, 2007.[8]
Al Murbati has been represented by Joshua Colangelo-Bryan and Clive Stafford Smith. A campaign to free him is being led by Bahraini MP Mohammed Khalid.
Al Murbati was released during August 2007. He was the last Bahraini to be released. On Thursday August 23, 2007 the Gulf Daily News reported that Bahraini Member of Parliament Mohammed Khalid had called for the Bahrain government to provide financial compensation to the released men.[9]
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