Mahmud Salem Horan Mohammed Mutlak Al Ali
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Mahmud Salem Horan Mohammed Mutlak Al Ali is a citizen of
Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
, best known for the more than eight years he spent in the
Guantanamo Bay detention camp The Guantanamo Bay detention camp ( es, Centro de detención de la bahía de Guantánamo) is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, also referred to as Guantánamo, GTMO, and Gitmo (), on the coast of Guant ...
s in
Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...
after being classified as an
enemy combatant Enemy combatant is a person who, either lawfully or unlawfully, engages in hostilities for the other side in an armed conflict. Usually enemy combatants are members of the armed forces of the state with which another state is at war. In the case ...
by the
United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...
. His Guantanamo
Internment Serial Number An Internment Serial Number (ISN) is an identification number assigned to captives who come under control of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) during armed conflicts. History On March 3, 2006, in compliance with a court order from D ...
was 537.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO) is a U.S. military joint task force based at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba on the southeastern end of the base. JTF-GTMO falls under US Southern Command. Since January 2002 the command ha ...
counter-terrorism Counterterrorism (also spelled counter-terrorism), also known as anti-terrorism, incorporates the practices, military tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, law enforcement, business, and intelligence agencies use to combat or el ...
analysts report that Mahmud Salem Horan Mohammed Mutlak Al Ali was born on May 5, 1974, in
Doha Doha ( ar, الدوحة, ad-Dawḥa or ''ad-Dōḥa'') is the capital city and main financial hub of Qatar. Located on the Persian Gulf coast in the east of the country, north of Al Wakrah and south of Al Khor, it is home to most of the coun ...
, Qatar. Al Ali and Palestinian Ohmed Ahmed Mahamoud Al Shurfa were released to Germany on September 16, 2010.


Combatant Status Review

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for the tribunal. His memo accused him of the following: The memo was published three times. The first two instances contained redactions.


Mahmud Salem Horan Mohammed Mutlak Al Ali v. George Walker Bush

A
writ of habeas corpus ''Habeas corpus'' (; from Medieval Latin, ) is a recourse in law through which a person can report an unlawful detention or imprisonment to a court and request that the court order the custodian of the person, usually a prison official, t ...
, Mahmud Salem Horan Mohammed Mutlak Al Ali v. George Walker Bush, was submitted on Mahmud Salem Horan Mohammed Mutlak Al Ali's behalf. In response, on May 6, 2005, the Department of Defense released 15 pages of unclassified documents related to his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.


Detainee election form

On October 21, 2004, his
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met with him, from 8:12 am to 8:32 am. His Person Representative recorded on his Detainee election form: :


Decision memo

His "enemy combatant" status was confirmed by Tribunal panel 15, which convened October 23, 2004. The decision memo recorded that the captive did not participate in his Tribunal. It recorded that the Tribunal relied entirely on classified evidence. :


Boumediene v. Bush

On June 12, 2008, the
United States Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that involve a point o ...
ruled, in
Boumediene v. Bush ''Boumediene v. Bush'', 553 U.S. 723 (2008), was a writ of ''habeas corpus'' submission made in a civilian court of the United States on behalf of Lakhdar Boumediene, a naturalized citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, held in military detention by ...
, that the Military Commissions Act could not remove the right for
Guantanamo captives The Guantanamo Bay detention camp ( es, Centro de detención de la bahía de Guantánamo) is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, also referred to as Guantánamo, GTMO, and Gitmo (), on the coast of Guant ...
to access the US Federal Court system. All previous Guantanamo captives' habeas petitions were re-instated. On July 18, 2008, Samuel C. Kauffman renewed his habeas petition.


Administrative Review Board

Detainees whose
Combatant Status Review Tribunal The Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) were a set of tribunals for confirming whether detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had been correctly designated as "enemy combatants". The CSRTs were esta ...
labeled them "enemy combatants" were scheduled for annual
Administrative Review Board The Administrative Review Board is a United States military body that conducts an annual review of the detainees held by the United States in Camp Delta in the United States Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The purpose of the Board is to re ...
hearings. These hearings were designed to assess the threat a detainee might pose if released or transferred, and whether there were other factors that warranted his continued detention.


First annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Mahmud Salem Horan Mohammed Mutlak Al Ali's first annual Administrative Review Board, on October 6, 2005. The memo listed twenty-two "primary factors favor ngcontinued detention" and nine "primary factors favor ngrelease or transfer".


Second annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Mahmud Salem Horan Mohammed Mutlak Al Ali's second annual Administrative Review Board, on June 19, 2006. The memo listed six "primary factors favor ngcontinued detention" and six "primary factors favor ngrelease or transfer".


Transfer to Germany

Al-Ali and Saudi captive Ohmed Ahmed Mahamoud Al Shurfa another man were transferred to Germany on September 16, 2010. Al-Ali was transferred to the
Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...
. According to ''
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'' Germany's Federal Government had sought the agreement of local authorities prior to completing the transfer. According to ''Der Spiegel,'' German officials asserted that American officials had cleared the two men of suspicion of involvement with terrorism. ''Der Spiegel'' reported a German official asserted: ''"According to our knowledge, he does not pose any threat ... We haven't brought a sleeper into our country,"'' German officials conducted interviews with the two men, in Guantanamo, in March, to confirm their suitability for transfer to Germany. German officials contacted security officials in other European countries, to confirm they had no reason to suspect the men had ties to terrorism.


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Who Are the Two Guantánamo Prisoners Freed in Germany?
Andy Worthington, September 21, 2010 {{DEFAULTSORT:Ali, Mahmud Salem Horan Mohammed Mutlak Al- Living people Syrian extrajudicial prisoners of the United States 1974 births Guantanamo detainees known to have been released