He was identified as Mohammed Mohammed Ahmen Said on the
Summary of Evidence memos prepared for his first and second annual Administrative Review Board hearings, on September 28, 2005, and June 7, 2006.[11][12]
Press reports
On July 12, 2006, the magazine Mother Jones provided excerpts from the transcripts of a selection of the Guantanamo detainees.[13] Haidel was one of the detainees profiled. According to the article, his transcript contained the following comment:
When I was in the Kandahar prison, the interrogator hit my arm and told me I received training in mortars. As he was hitting me, I kept telling him, "No, I didn't receive training." I was crying and finally I told him I did receive the training. My hands were tied behind my back and my knees were on the ground and my head was bleeding. I was in a lot of pain, so I said I had the training. At that point, with all my suffering, if he had asked me if I was Osama bin Laden, I would have said yes…. Am I an enemy of the United States? I never knew any Americans until I came to this prison. Americans should know who their real enemies are. What is my crime for being here for three years? That is all I would like to say.
Official status reviews
Originally, the
BushPresidency asserted that captives apprehended in the "
war on terror" were not covered by the
Geneva Conventions, and could be held indefinitely, without charge, and without an open and transparent review of the justifications for their detention.[14]
In 2004, the
United States Supreme Court ruled, in
Rasul v. Bush, that Guantanamo captives were entitled to being informed of the allegations justifying their detention, and were entitled to try to refute them.
Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants
Scholars at the
Brookings Institution, led by
Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations:[18]
Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel was listed as one of the captives who(m):
"The military alleges ... are associated with both Al Qaeda and the Taliban."[18]
"The military alleges ... traveled to Afghanistan for jihad."[18]
"The military alleges that the following detainees stayed in Al Qaeda, Taliban or other guest- or safehouses."[18]
"The military alleges ... took military or terrorist training in Afghanistan."[18]
"The military alleges ... fought for the Taliban."[18]
Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel was listed as one of the "82 detainees made no statement to CSRT or ARB tribunals or made statements that do not bear materially on the military's allegations against them."[18]
A
Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on October 8, 2004.[10][19]
Haidel chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[20] On March 3, 2006, in response to a
court order from
Jed Rakoff the
Department of Defense published a three-page summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[21]
^Greg Myre (2017-01-16).
"10 Guantanamo Prisoners Freed in Oman; 45 Detainees Remain".
National Public Radio. Retrieved 2017-01-17. The freed prisoners were not identified by name or nationality, though the Oman News Agency, citing the country's Foreign Ministry, reported that the 10 had arrived in the country on Monday for "temporary residence."
^Carol Rosenberg (2017-01-16).
"U.S. sends 10 Guantánamo captives to Oman".
Miami Herald.
Archived from the original on 2017-01-17. A Pentagon official who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed that the transfer had taken place, downsizing the detainee population to 45. Neither Oman nor the official provided the identities of the 10 men who were sent there.
^
ab"U.S. military reviews 'enemy combatant' use".
USA Today. 2007-10-11.
Archived from the original on 2007-10-23. Critics called it an overdue acknowledgment that the so-called Combatant Status Review Tribunals are unfairly geared toward labeling detainees the enemy, even when they pose little danger. Simply redoing the tribunals won't fix the problem, they said, because the system still allows coerced evidence and denies detainees legal representation.