| Osam Abdul Rahan Ahmad | |
|---|---|
| Detained at | Guantanamo |
| Alternate name | Wissam Abdul Ahmad Wassam al-Ourdoni |
| ISN | 1018 |
| Charge(s) | No charge (held in extrajudicial detention) |
| Status | Repatriated in March 2004 |
Osam Abdul Rahan Ahmad is a citizen of Jordan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 1018. Intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1976 in Al-Zarqa, Jordan.
Osam Abdul Rahan Ahmad was repatriated without ever been charged on 31 March 2004.[2][3]
The McClatchy News Service interviewed 66 former Guantanamo captives in 2008, including Wissasm Abdul Ahmad.[4][5][6][7][8][9] He told McClatchy reporters he was first detained by Iranian authorities in a routine identity check at a bus-stop in the border city of Zahedan. Iranian authorities held him for approximately a month, prior to sending him to Afghanistan.
The first prison he was held in was staffed by Afghans, but Americans ran the interrogation.[4] Wissam described over-crowded conditions where he and other captives were subjected to brutal beating by both Afghan guards and their American masters. He believed he was in CIA custody. Amnesty reports that Ahmed was captured in March 2002, and held for fourteen months in an underground prison.[10] Amnesty has tried to interview Ahmad, without success, and believes he is in an unknown Jordanian prison on unknown charges.
Eventually he was transferred to the Bagram Theater Internment Facility.[4] He believed his transfer was in early 2003. While in Bagram he described being subjected to sleep deprivation, and spent several days with his hands chained above his head—but without the peroneal strikes that GIs had used to murder fellow captives Dilawar and Habibullah.
Wissam acknowledged traveling on a Tablighi Jamaat pilgrimage in Pakistan and was returning to Jordan when he was detained.[4] Guantanamo analysts have offered ties to the Tablighi movement as a justification for holding dozens of captives—have made the general claim that real terrorists have claimed to travel on Tabligh pilgrimages as a cover story for travels for terrorist purposes.
The McClatchy report stated that they were able to interview Wissam in late 2007, but when they returned to interview him in April 2008 Jordanian authorities had detained for unknown reasons, and without charge.[4]
Wissam had been serving as an imam when they first interviewed him.[4]
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