Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi

Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi is a Yemeni citizen currently held in Guantánamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. His Gunantanamo Internment Serial Number is 578. The Department of Defense reports that Al Suadi was born on June 16, 1974, in Milhan, Yemen and assigned him the Internment Serial Number 578.

As of October 11, 2010, Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali al Suadi has been held at Guantanamo for eight years five months.

Combatant Status Review

Main article: Combatant Status Review Tribunal

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for the tribunal, listing the allegations that led to his detainment. His memo accused him of the following:}

a. Evidence in support [sic] the allegation:

1. The detainee is an electrician from Yemen who traveled from his home to Afghanistan via Syria and Iran in September 2000.
2. The detainee reported to the al-Farouq training facility upon his arrival in Afghanistan.
3. The detainee participated in advanced training at the al-Qaida Tarnak Farms training facility in 2001

Personal Representative's notes

Although Al Suadi didn't attend his Tribunal, the brief handwritten notes his Personal Representative prepared were part of his dossier:

• Detainee will attend tribunal, to what degree is unclear.
• No lawyer/legal representation
• Circuitous interview
• In final interview, detainee changed to non-participation.

Habeas corpus

A writ of habeas corpus, Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi v. United States, was submitted on Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi's behalf. In response, on October 1, 2004 the Department of Defense released sixteen pages of unclassified documents related to his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi's enemy combatant status was confirmed by Tribunal panel 5.

Recorder Exhibit List

Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi's dossier contained a Recorder Exhibit List

Recorder Exhibit List For ISN # 578

isn	Title	Support	Classification
R1	Unclassified Summary	N/A	Unclassified
R2	FBI Request for Redaction of National Security Information	3.a.1.	Unclassified
R3	FBI 302 27-MAY-02	3.a.1. 3.a.2.	FOUO//LES
R4	000274 KB 08-JUN-02	3.a.1. 3.a.2.	SECRET
R5	IIR 6 034 1208 03	3.a.3.	SECRET//NOFORN
R6	CITF Memorandum 26-MAY-04	Summary	SECRET//NOFORN
R7	Terrorist-Related Locations and Facilities (Feb 24, 98)	3.a.3.	SECRET//NOFORN
R8	EC Review Checklist	FYI	SECRET//NOFORN
R9	JTF GTMO Baseball Card	FYI	SECRET//NOFORN
R10	DOD JTF GTMO (unsigned-8-October-2004)	Summary	SECRET//NOFORN

Administrative Review Board

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.

2005 Administrative Review Board hearing

A two page Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for his annual Administrative Review Board hearing. The following factors favor continued detention

a. Commitment

1. The detainee attended a mosque in Yemen where he heard about jihad from a Sheikh. An individual urged him to go to Afghanistan to participate in jihad against the Russians.
2. The detainee was urged to help with the jihad and he traveled to Afghanistan near the end of 2000.
3. The detainee traveled from Damascus, Syria, to Tehran, Iran to Mashaad, Iran to Tibett Iran and the to Kandahar, Afghanistan.

b. Training:

1. In 1990–1991, the detainee completed basic training and served as a volunteer National Guardsman in the Yemen National Guard.
2. The detainee received training with the Rocket Propelled Grenade, AK-47, Puleymot Kalashnikov and a weapon similar to the .50 caliber machine gun. The training took place between 1991–1992.
3. The detainee attended the explosives course at the al Farouq training camp in Afghanistan. After graduation, the detainee was chosen as an assistant to teach an explosives course at Tarnak Farms.

c. Other Relevant Data:

1. The detainee was seen at a guesthouse in Kandahar during August 2001.
2. The detainee and the others were waiting training while in Afghanistan. An operative stated he assumed the detainee was traveling to Chechnya for jihad.
3. An operative saw the detainee in January 2002 at a guesthouse in Karachi, Pakistan where the detainee was eventually captured. The operative did not know exactly how the detainee traveled there from Afghanistan, but stated typically, a network of Pakistanis would bring them.
4. The detainee was in a Karachi guesthouse for approximately one month before his arrest. During that time, the Yemenis were waiting to travel home to Yemen. All the men had turned in their cash, passports, and identification over to al Qaida facilitators upon their arrival in Afghanistan, for safekeeping.

The following primary factors favor release or transfer

a.The detainee denied having any knowledge of the attacks prior to their execution on September 11, 2001.

b. The detainee denied having any knowledge of any rumors or plans of future attacks on the United States.

c. The detainee denied any knowledge of bomb making or explosive instructors. The detainee claimed the entire notion of building a bomb out of homemade materials seemed very strange and foreign to him.

Transcript

Al Suadi chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing. In early 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a fifteen page summarized transcript from his 2005 hearing.

2006 Administrative Review Board hearing

A two page Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for his second annual Administrative Review Board hearing.

Transcript

Al Suadi said he would not attend his 2006 administrative review, unless he could hear and respond to the classified evidence against him. He drafted a statement to be read instead.

2007 Administrative Review Board hearing

A three page Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for his third annual Administrative Review Board hearing.

External links

• Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Five: Captured in Pakistan Andy Worthington, September 29, 2010
• Pentagon charges 6 in 9-11 attacks
• 'Clean team' interrogated 9-11 suspects

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