Turki Mash Awi Zayid Al Asiri
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Administrative Review Board hearing
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
Turki Mash Awi Zayid Al Asiri's
first annual
Administrative Review Board,
on 9 September 2005.
The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.
The four page memo listed
twenty-six
"primary factors favor[ing] continued detention" and
two
"primary factors favor[ing] release or transfer".
The allegations he faced included:
- He was alleged to have sold his car to raise funds to travel to Afghanistan after hearing a fatwaFatwaA fatwā in the Islamic faith is a juristic ruling concerning Islamic law issued by an Islamic scholar. In Sunni Islam any fatwā is non-binding, whereas in Shia Islam it could be considered by an individual as binding, depending on his or her relation to the scholar. The person who issues a fatwā...
from SheikhSheikhNot to be confused with sikhSheikh — also spelled Sheik or Shaikh, or transliterated as Shaykh — is an honorific in the Arabic language that literally means "elder" and carries the meaning "leader and/or governor"...
Hamoud Alaugla. - He was alleged to have been employed by the Al Rajhi Foundation to pass out Korans and work at an orphanage.
- He was alleged to have traveled to Afghanistan for jihadist training with Abu Bakr Al Jazairi.
- He was alleged to have traveled with three Tablighi JamaatTablighi JamaatTablighi Jamaat is a religious movement which was founded in 1926 by Muhammad Ilyas al-Kandhlawi in India. The movement primarily aims at Tablighi spiritual reformation by working at the grass roots level, reaching out to Muslims across all social and economic spectra to bring them closer to...
pilgrims he met in Pakistan. - He was alleged to have been captured with an address book that contained names and phone numbers in ArabicArabic languageArabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...
. - A satellite phoneSatellite phoneA satellite telephone, satellite phone, or satphone is a type of mobile phone that connects to orbiting satellites instead of terrestrial cell sites...
captured on October 7, 2001 had phoned one of the numbers also found in Turki's address book. - A booklet found in a crate of ammunition contained phone numbers, including one also found in Turki's address book.
- A phone number found in his address book, may have been one of Amanullah ZadranAmanullah ZadranAmanullah Khan Zadran is a citizen of Afghanistan who has held several prominent positions of power.Amanullah was a Taliban leader, who defected after the American invasion, and who Afghan President Hamid Karzai appointed to his cabinet as Minister of Tribal and Border Affairs in December...
, the younger brother of Pacha Khan ZadranPacha Khan ZadranPacha Khan Zadran is a powerful militia leader and a politician in the southeast of Afghanistan. He was an ex Soviet-fighter militia leader who played a role in driving the Taliban from Paktia Province in the 2001 invasion, with American backing, and he subsequently assumed the governorship of...
, a local militia leader who did not always comply with direction from Hamid KarzaiHamid KarzaiHamid Karzai, GCMG is the 12th and current President of Afghanistan, taking office on 7 December 2004. He became a dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001...
's government. - His name was alleged to have been found on "a document listing 324 Arabic names, aliases, and nationalities". This list was during a safe house raid in Karachi. His entry on this list was alleged to have contained his name, alias, passport, and ATM card.
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
Turki Mish'awi Za'id Alj-Amri's second annual
Administrative Review Board,
on 9 May 2006.
The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.
Repatriation
On November 25, 2008 the Department of Defense published a list of when captives left Guantanamo.According to that list he was repatriated to Saudi custody on November 9, 2007, with thirteen other men.
The records published from the captives' annual Administrative Reviews show his repatriation was not the outcome of the formal internal review procedures.
The records show his detention was not reviewed in 2007.
At least ten other men in his release group were not repatriated through the formal review procedure.
Peter Taylor writing for the BBC News
BBC News
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called the Saudis repatriated on November 9, 2007 with Al Assiri, "batch 10
Batch 10
Batch 10 is a name journalist have given to the tenth batch of former Saudi captives to be repatriated to Saudi Arabian custody.Five of the fourteen captives in this group repatriated to Saudi captivity on November 9, 2007 were among the eleven former Guantanamo captives to be listed on the 85 men...
".
He wrote that the BBC's research had found this batch to be a problematic cohort, and that four other men forom this batch were named on the Saudi most wanted list.
Named on a Saudi "most wanted" list
On February 3, 2009 the Saudi government published a list of 85 "most wanted" suspected terrorists, that included an individual identified as " Turki Mashawi Al Aseery".This list contained ten other former Guantanamo captives.
Half of the eleven former captives listed on most wanted list were also from among the eleven men repatriated on November 9, 2007—in spite of their annual reviews recommending continued detention.