Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay

The United States acknowledges holding 108 Yemeni detainees in Guantanamo.

By January 2008 the Yemenis in Guantanamo represented the largest group of detainees. On March 12, 2008 Mark Falkoff of the Center for Constitutional Rights issued a call for the repatriation of the Yemeni detainees, reporting that 95 Yemenis remained in detention, and they now constituted more than a third of the detainee population. Falkoff wrote that the delay in his release is due to a failure of the USA and Yemeni governments to reach an agreement on the security arrangements for the detainees, following their repatriation. By contrast, almost all the 133 Saudi detainees in Guantanamo had been sent home in 2006 and 2007.

A delegation of Yemeni officials visited Guantanamo shortly after it opened in January 2002.

Impact of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's alleged attempted suicide bombing

On December 25, 2009, Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly tried to set off a suicide bomb on Northwest Airlines Flight 253. By December 27, 2009, responding to rumors that Abdulmutallab had confessed to being trained and equipped in Yemen, various American politicians, including Joe Lieberman, Pete Hoekstra, Peter T. King and Bennie Thompson, called for American President Barack Obama to halt plans to repatriate the Yemenis.

Repatriated detainees

Several returned Yemeni detainees were charged and stood trial, following their repatriation. Yemen established a special Criminal Court for Terrorism where their trials took place.

On June 7, 2008 the Yemeni site Al Sahwa Net reported that negotiations were advanced for the repatration of approximately seventy Yemeni detainees.

On June 7, 2008 Yemen Online reported that several Yemeni detainees had recently been allowed to their first phone calls to their families. The article also reported that "informed sources" said Stephan Seche, the American ambassador had returned to the USA to brief the Bush Presidency on Yemen's rehabilitation program for repatriated detainees.

List of Yemeni detainees in Guantanamo

isn	name	status	notes
26	Fahed Abdullah Ahmad Ghazi	Held
27	Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman	Held	Won his habeas corpus
28	Muaz Hamza Ahmad Al Alawi	Held
29	Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Al Ansi	Held
30	Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi	Held
31	Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid	Held
32	Faruq Ali Ahmed	Transferred
33	Mohammed Ahmad Said Al Edah	Held
34	Al Khadr Abdallah Muhammed Al Yafi	Held
35	Idris Ahmed Abdu Qader Idris	Held
36	Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris	Held
37	Abd al Malik Abd al Wahab	Held
39	Ali Hamza Ahmed Suleiman Al Bahlul	Held
40	Abdel Qadir Hussein Al Mudhaffari	Held
41	Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmad	Held
43	Samir Naji Al Hasan Moqbel	Held
44	Mohammed Rajab Sadiq Abu Ghanim	Held
45	Ali Ahmad Muhammad Al Rahizi	Held
69	Sadeq Muhammad Sa'id Ismail	Transferred
78	Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al Hanashi	Dead	Died in custody
88	Waqas Mohammed Ali Awad	Held
91	Abdul Al Saleh	Held
115	Abdul Rahman Mohamed Saleh Naser	Held
117	Muktar Yahya Najee Al Warafi	Held
128	Ghaleb Nassar Al Bihani	Held
129	Toufiq Saber Muhammad Al Marwa’i	Transferred
131	Salem Ahmed Hadi	Transferred
149	Salim Ahmed Hamdan	Transferred
152	Asim Thahit Abdullah Al Khalaqi	Held
153	Fayiz Ahmad Yahia Suleiman	Held
156	Allal Ab Aljallil Abd Al Rahman Abd	Held
162	Ali Husayn Abdullah Al Tays	Transferred
163	Khalid Abd Jal Jabbar Muhammad Juthman Al Qadasi	Held
165	Adil Said Al Haj Obeid Al Busayss	Held
167	Ali Yahya Mahdi Al Raimi	Held
170	Sharaf Ahmad Muhammad Masud	Held
171	Abu Bakr Ibn Ali Muhhammad Alahdal	Held
172	Ali Muhammed Nasir	Transferred
178	Tarek Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada	Held
183	Issam Hamid Al Bin Ali Al Jayfi	Transferred
193	Muhsin Muhammad Musheen Moqbill	Transferred
198	Mohammed Ahmed Ali Al Asadi	Transferred
202	Mahmmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef	Held
204	Said Ibrahim Ramzi Al Zahrani	Transferred
205	Nasser Najiri Amtiri	Transferred
221	Ali Mohsen Salih	Transferred
223	Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghiyth Sulayman	Held
224	Abd Al Rahman Abdullah Ali Muhammad	Held
225	Hani Abdul Muslih Al Shulan	Transferred
233	Abdul Al Razzaq Muhammad Salih	Held
235	Saeed Ahmed Mohammed Abdullah Sarem Jarabh	Held
242	Khaled Qasim	Held
249	Mohammed Abdullah Al Hamiri	Held
251	Muhhammad Said Bin Salem	Held
252	Yasim Muhammed Basardah	Held
254	Muhammad Ali Hussein Khenaina	Held
255	Said Muhammed Salih Hatim	Held
256	Atag Ali Abdoh Al-Haj	Transferred
259	Fadil Husayn Salih Hintif	Held
321	Ahmed Yaslam Said Kuman	Held
324	Mashur Abdallah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri	Held
434	Mustafa Abdul Qawi Abdul Aziz Al Shamyri	Held
440	Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir	Held
441	Abdul Al Rahman Al Zahri	Held
461	Abdul Rahman Umir Al Qyati	Held
498	Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel	Held
503	Saleh Mohamed Al Zuba	Transferred
506	Khalid Mohammed Salih Al Dhuby	Held
508	Salman Yahya Hassan Mohammed Rabeii	Held
509	Mohammed Nasir Yahya Khusruf	Held
511	Sulaiman Awath Sulaiman Bin Ageel Al Nahdi	Held
522	Yasin Qasem Muhammad Ismail	Held
549	Omar Said Salim Al Dayi	Held
554	Fahmi Salem Said Al Sani	Held
564	Jalal Salam Bin Amer	Held
569	Zuhail Abdo Anam Said Al Sharabi	Held
570	Sabri Mohammed Ebrahim Al Qurashi	Held
574	Hamoud Abdullah Hamoud Hassan Al Wady	Held
575	Saad Masir Mukbl Al Azani	Held
576	Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun	Held
577	Jamal Muhammad Alawi Mar'i	Transferred
578	Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi	Held
586	Karam Khamis Sayd Khamsan	Transferred
627	Ayman Saeed Abdullah Batarfi	Transferred
678	Fawaz Naman Hamoud Abdallah Mahdi	Transferred
679	Mohmmad Ahmad Ali Tahar	Transferred
680	Emad Abdalla Hassan	Held
681	Mohammed Mohammed Hassen	Transferred	Won his habeas corpus
683	Fayad Yahya Ahmed	Transferred
686	Abdel Ghalib Ahmad Hakim	Held
688	Fahmi Abdullah Ahmed	Held
689	Mohammed Ahmed Salam	Held
690	Ahmed Abdul Qader	Held
691	Mohammed Ali Salem Al Zarnuki	Held
692	Ali Bin Ali Aleh	Transferred
693	Ali Abdullah Ahmed	Dead	Died in custody
728	Jamil Ahmed Said Nassir	Held
836	Ayoub Murshid Ali Saleh	Held
837	Bashir Nashir Al-Marwalah	Held
838	Shawki Awad Balzuhair	Held
839	Musab Omar Ali Al Mudwani	Held
840	Ha Il Aziz Ahmed Al Maythali	Held
841	Sa id Salih Sa id Nashir	Held
1014	Walid Mohammed Shahir	Transferred
1015	Hussein Salem Mohammed	Held
1017	Omar Mohammed Ali Al Rammah	Held
1453	Sanad Ali Yislam Al-Kazimi	Held
1456	Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash	Held
1457	Al Hajj Abdu Ali Sharqawi	Held
1463	Abdul Al Salam Al Hilal	Held
10013	Ramzi bin al-Shibh	Held	"high-value detainee"
10014	Walid bin 'Attash	Held	"high-value detainee"

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