Said Ali Abdullah Al Farha Al Ghamidi
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There is no record that Said Ali Abdullah Al Farha Al Ghamidiparticipated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
Habeas corpus
A writ of habeas corpus was submitted on his behalf.Captive 341 was identified as "Seed Farha". It was heard before US District Court Judge Reggie Walton
Reggie Walton
Reggie Barnett Walton is a federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.-Early life and education :...
, and was amalgamated with other habeas cases into Mohammon v. Bush 05-CV-2386.
The Department of Defense published the unclassified documents generated through the Combatant Status Review Tribunals of 179 captives who had habeas petitions submitted on their behalf.
But they did not publish this one.
Administrative Review Board hearings
Administrative Review Board
The Administrative Review Board is a United States military body that conducts an annual review of the suspects held by the United States in Camp Delta in the United States Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba....
hearings.
The Administrative Review Boards were not authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they were not authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".
They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat—or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free.
First annual Administrative Review Board
A Summary of Evidence memoSummary of Evidence (ARB)
Counter-terrorism analysts prepared a Summary of Evidence memo for the Administrative Review Board hearings of approximately 460 captives in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba from December 2004 to December 2005.-Release of the memos:...
was prepared for
Said Ali Al Farha'S
first annual Administrative Review Board, on
24 June 2005.
The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.
Second annual Administrative Review Board
A Summary of Evidence memoSummary of Evidence (ARB)
Counter-terrorism analysts prepared a Summary of Evidence memo for the Administrative Review Board hearings of approximately 460 captives in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba from December 2004 to December 2005.-Release of the memos:...
was prepared for
Said Ali Abdallah Al Farha Al Ghamidi
second annual Administrative Review Board, on
11 April 2006.
The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.
Board recommendations
In early September 2007 the Department of Defense released two heavily redacted memos, from his Board, to Gordon England, the Designated Civilian Official.The Board's recommendation was unanimous
The Board's recommendation was redacted.
England authorized his transfer on 14 August 2006.
One of the unredacted paragraphs in the decision memos stated:
Repatriation
According to The Saudi Repatriates ReportThe Saudi Repatriates Report
The Saudi Repatriates Report is a statistics analysis of the cases of 24 repatriated Saudi prisoners released from the Guantanamo Bay naval station since the first planeload of detainees arrived on 11 January 2003. They represent nearly half of the 53 Saudi nationals released from Guantanamo Bay in...
Al Ghamdi was one of sixteen men repatriated on December 14, 2006.