Salman Rabeii

Salman Yahya Hassan Muhammad Rabeii (born June 30, 1979) is a citizen of Yemen, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[3][4] His detainee ID number was 508.

Salman Yahya Hassan Muhammad Rabeii
Salman Yahya Hassan Muhammad Rabeii wearing the white uniform issued to compliant individuals
Born	(1979-06-30) June 30, 1979 (age 44)^[1]^[2] Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Arrested	late 2001 official accounts differ official accounts differ
Citizenship	Yemen
Detained at	Guantanamo
ISN	508
Charge(s)	extrajudicial detention
Status	Transferred to Oman

Rabeii was cleared for release on December 1, 2016.^[5] He was transferred to Oman with nine other men, on January 16, 2017.^[6][7][8]

Official status reviews

Originally the Bush Presidency asserted that captives apprehended in the "war on terror" were not covered by the Geneva Conventions, and could be held indefinitely, without charge, and without an open and transparent review of the justifications for their detention.^[9] In 2004, the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that Guantanamo captives were entitled to being informed of the allegations justifying their detention, and were entitled to try to refute them.

Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants

 

Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a 3x5 meter trailer where the captive sat with his hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor.^[10][11]

Following the Supreme Court's ruling the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants.^[9][12]

Scholars at the Brookings Institution, led by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations:^[13]

• Salman Yahya Hassan Muhammad Rabeii was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... took military or terrorist training in Afghanistan."^[13]
• Salman Yahya Hassan Muhammad Rabeii was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... were at Tora Bora."^[13]
• Salman Yahya Hassan Muhammad Rabeii was listed as one of the captives whose "names or aliases were found on material seized in raids on Al Qaeda safehouses and facilities."^[13]
• Salman Yahya Hassan Muhammad Rabeii was listed as one of the captives who was a foreign fighter.^[13]

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In the Combatant Status Review Tribunals, it is the Recorder's responsibility to act like a Prosecutor, and compile and distribute the allegations against the detainee.^[15] During Rabeii's hearing, the Tribunal members asked the recorder to explain why the wording of the allegations, as read out, differed from the wording in copies they had been given to read.

Formerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment

On April 25, 2011, whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts.^[16][17] An 11-page Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on February 29, 2008.^[18] It was signed by camp commandant Rear Admiral Mark H. Buzby. He recommended continued detention.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/82886-isn-508-salman-yahya-hassan-mohammed-rabeii-jtf/3d18d4331478d152/full.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
2. https://www.prs.mil/portals/60/documents/ISN508/150407_U_ISN508_GOVERNMENTS_UNCLASSIFIED_SUMMARY_PUBLIC.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
3. OARDEC. "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. (PDF) from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved May 15, 2006.   Works related to List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006 at Wikisource
4. Margot Williams (November 3, 2008). "Guantanamo Docket: Salman Yahya Hassan Mohammed Rabeii". New York Times. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
5. Carol Rosenberg (December 10, 2016). "Guantánamo board approves release of another Yemeni 'forever prisoner'". Miami Herald. Retrieved December 10, 2016. So in this instance, the board isn't rejecting an earlier assessment. Instead, it found that Rabeii "does not currently demonstrate an extremist mind-set or appear to be driven to reengage by extremist ideology."
6. Greg Myre (January 16, 2017). "10 Guantanamo Prisoners Freed In Oman; 45 Detainees Remain". National Public Radio. Retrieved January 17, 2017. The freed prisoners were not identified by name or nationality, though the Oman News Agency, citing the country's Foreign Ministry, reported that the 10 had arrived in the country on Monday for "temporary residence."
7. Carol Rosenberg (January 16, 2017). "U.S. sends 10 Guantánamo captives to Oman". Miami Herald. from the original on January 17, 2017. A Pentagon official who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed that the transfer had taken place, downsizing the detainee population to 45. Neither Oman nor the official provided the identities of the 10 men who were sent there.
8. Carol Rosenberg (January 16, 2017). "Victims of mistaken identity among the 10 sent from Guantánamo to Oman". Miami Herald. from the original on January 18, 2017. A Pentagon statement did not explain why the Department of Defense chose to wait to identify the 10 men for more than a day after the Sultanate of Oman announced it had taken them in as "temporary" residents "in consideration to their humanitarian situation."
9. "U.S. military reviews 'enemy combatant' use". USA Today. October 11, 2007. from the original on October 23, 2007. Critics called it an overdue acknowledgment that the so-called Combatant Status Review Tribunals are unfairly geared toward labeling detainees the enemy, even when they pose little danger. Simply redoing the tribunals won't fix the problem, they said, because the system still allows coerced evidence and denies detainees legal representation.
10. Guantánamo Prisoners Getting Their Day, but Hardly in Court, New York Times, November 11, 2004 - mirror 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
11. Inside the Guantánamo Bay hearings: Barbarian "Justice" dispensed by KGB-style "military tribunals", Financial Times, December 11, 2004
12. "Q&A: What next for Guantanamo prisoners?". BBC News. January 21, 2002. from the original on November 23, 2008. Retrieved November 24, 2008.
13. Benjamin Wittes; Zaathira Wyne (2008-12-16). "The Current Detainee Population of Guantánamo: An Empirical Study" (PDF). The Brookings Institution. (PDF) from the original on 2017-05-19. Retrieved 2010-02-16.
14. Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Salman Yahya Hassan Mohammed Rabeii's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 40-42
15. "Summarized Statement by Personal Representative on behalf of the Detainee [sic]". Retrieved December 10, 2016.
16. Christopher Hope, Robert Winnett, Holly Watt, Heidi Blake (April 27, 2011). "WikiLeaks: Guantanamo Bay terrorist secrets revealed". The Daily Telegraph (London). from the original on July 15, 2012. Retrieved July 13, 2012. The Daily Telegraph, along with other newspapers including The Washington Post, today exposes America's own analysis of almost ten years of controversial interrogations on the world's most dangerous terrorists. This newspaper has been shown thousands of pages of top-secret files obtained by the WikiLeaks website.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
17. . The Daily Telegraph (London). April 27, 2011. Archived from the original on June 26, 2015. Retrieved July 10, 2012.
18. "Salman Yahya Hassan Muhammad Rabeii". The Daily Telegraph (London). April 27, 2011. Retrieved July 9, 2016.