Important Files Missing in Wikileaks Guantanamo Release (Hamdi Vs. Rumsfeld)

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Important Files Missing in Wikileaks Guantanamo Release
By: Jeff Kaye Sunday May 1, 2011 11:02 am

Important detainee files are missing in the Guantanamo files released by Wikileaks. There appear to be sixteen missing files, one of which is mislabeled in the database. The mislabeled file concerns a “Detainee Assessment Brief” for Abdurahman Khadr, the brother of Omar Khadr and an admitted “asset” for the CIA, who once described how he was sent to Guantanamo as a fake prisoner to spy. The other missing files are suspicious, not least because of who these men were, or the stories behind their capture or subsequent fate.

The missing men include Yaser Hamdi (called Himdy Yasser in the database), ISN 009, who was an American citizen labeled an “illegal enemy combatant,” and like U.S. citizen Jose Padilla (who never was at Guantanamo), was sent from Guantanamo to the Navy Brig at Charleston, South Carolina, where he endured terrible isolation and sensory deprivation. His habeas case went all the way to the Supreme Court, which issued a landmark ruling, Hamdi v Rumsfeld, limiting executive rights in regards to incarcerating prisoners without a hearing. Hamdi was later forced to renounce his U.S. citizenship and sent to Saudi Arabia.

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Some of the missing detainee files concern obscure fates. Fael Roda Al-Waleeli (US9EG-000663DP) was an Egyptian detainee who the Egyptian government still was asking U.S. authorities to repatriate as late as November 2004 (BBC report). Even though Combatant Status Reviews had begun four months earlier, there is no known CSR review of Al-Waleeli’s case. A Wikipedia page on Egyptians at Guantanamo reports, “On March 28, 2008 the Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram reported that Fael had been transferred from Guantanamo “three years earlier”, but that they had been unable to find out any reliable information about what happened to him after his transfer.” According to an October 2008 Department of Defense list (PDF) of detainees “released, transferred for released” as of that date, he was released on July 1, 2003. But no one has heard of him again.

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Hiding a CIA Informant at Guantanamo

Another prisoner denied ICRC visitation on October 9, 2003 was ISN 990, otherwise known as Abdul Khadr, aka Abdurahman Khadr, brother of Omar Khadr. Abdurahman’s file, moreover, was incorrectly identified as that of another man int he Wikileaks database. I recently wrote to Andy Worthington to discuss the situation. Worthington was the only single blogger who was included as an official partner, along with the UK Telegraph, the McClatchy Company, the Washington Post, and other foreign major media, in the Wikileaks Guantanamo Files release.

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