Fahmi Salem Said Al Sani is a citizen of Yemen

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 currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba

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 after being classified as an enemy combatant

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 by the United States

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The Department of Defense

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 reports that he was born on May 17, 1977, in Mikala, Yemen and assigned him the Internment Serial Number 554.

As of August 17, 2011, Fahmi Salem Said al Sani has been held at Guantanamo for nine years six months.

External links

• Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Two: Captured in Afghanistan (2001) Andy Worthington, September 17, 2010
• Human Rights First; Habeas Works: Federal Courts’ Proven Capacity to Handle Guantánamo Cases (2010)