Yussef Mohammed Mubarak Al Shihri
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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
Yusef M Modaray's
second annual
Administrative Review Board,
on 12 October 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
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called the Saudis repatriated on November 9, 2007 with al-Shihri, "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...
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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.
Allegations of family connections with other suspected terrorists
After another former Saudi captive, Sa'id Ali Jabir Al Khathim Al Shihri, appeared in internet videos that threatened further attacks, an aticle in the Saudi GazetteSaudi Gazette
Saudi Gazette is the leading English language daily newspaper published in Saudi Arabia. and is currently available both in print and online.As of July 1, 2011, Dr Omar S. Elmershedi is the Saudi Gazette Editor-in-Chief.Managing Editor: Shams Ahsan...
reported that he had a brother-in-law, named "Yusuf al-Shihri", who was also a former Guantanamo captive.
Said Ali Al Shihri married Yussef Al Shiri's sister after their repatriation from Guantanamo.
Yussef's sister had two previous husbands. In a child custody dispute her first husband sought custody claiming the sister was a takfiri
Takfiri
A Takfiri is a Muslim who practices Takfir, which is to accuse other Muslims of apostasy. The term Takfir derives from the word kafir and is described as when "...one who is, or claims to be, a Muslim is declared impure." Those to whom Takfir is applied are considered excommunicated in the eyes...
. He claimed her second husband had also been a militant, and that he was killed in a shootout with security officials in 2004.
During his CSR Tribunal the allegations stated Yussef Mohammed Mubarak Al Shihri was captured with his cousin, in Kunduz
Kunduz
Kunduz also known as Kundûz, Qonduz, Qondûz, Konduz, Kondûz, Kondoz, or Qhunduz is a city in northern Afghanistan, the capital of Kunduz Province. It is linked by highways with Mazari Sharif to the west, Kabul to the south and Tajikistan's border to the north...
, in northern Afghanistan.
After his death the Saudi Gazette reported that two of his brothers, Faisal and Mustafa, and a cousin, Abdul Ghani Al-Shehri were imprisoned in at the Hai’er Prison on suspicion of terrorism.
Named on Saudi Arabia's most wanted list
Yusuf Al Shihri, his brother-in-law Said Al Shihri, and a sixteen-year-old cousin, Abdullah Al Shihri, were named on a Saudi most wanted list on February 3, 2009.Reported the death of Fahd Al Jutayli
The Yemen Post reported on September 27 that Othman Al-Ghamedi and Yousuf Al-Shahri hadcontacted their families requesting that they pass on news to the family of Fahd Saleh Sulaiman Al-Jatili that he had died during a military action by Yemeni security officials.
Killed
Al Shihri, Raed al-Harbi, and a third man were killed at a border crossing while trying to enter Saudi Arabia from Yemen.The Associated Press
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reports the men were in possession of suicide belts when discovered.
Al Shihri and Al Harbi were disguised in women's clothes when discovered.
The three resisted arrest and one Saudi soldier was killed and another wounded.
The third man, who was not in disguise, survived the firefight. His interrogation led to the capture of six Yemeni accomplices.
Saudi security officials reported on the arrest of 113 suspects in March 2010
Saudi arrests of suspected terrorists in March 2010
Security officials announced over one hundred individuals were apperhended in a series of Saudi arrests of suspected terrorists in March 2010.The individuals were all reported to be suspected of membership in Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula....
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The arrest of 101 of those individuals were reported to have started with the interrogation of al-Shiri's surviving companion.