Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07SANAA1906
2007-10-15 09:54:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Sanaa
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C O N F I D E N T I A L SANAA 001906
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/15/2017
TAGS: PREL PTER KAWC YM
SUBJECT: FOUR GTMO DETAINEES RELEASED
REF: SANAA 1901
Classified By: CDA Angie Bryan for reasons 1.4(b) and (d)
C O N F I D E N T I A L SANAA 001906
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/15/2017
TAGS: PREL PTER KAWC YM
SUBJECT: FOUR GTMO DETAINEES RELEASED
REF: SANAA 1901
Classified By: CDA Angie Bryan for reasons 1.4(b) and (d)
1. (C) Yemeni online news outlets reported on October 9 and
10 that four prisoners who had previously been detained at
Guantanamo Bay had been released. According to the
pro-government website 26 September.net, the four, Fawaz
Noman Hamoud, Ali Muhsen Nasser, Sadiq Mohamed Saeed Ismael
and Hani Abdo Musleh Shallan, were released on October 9.
They had been held by the Aden based Political Security
Service. The report also indicated that the former detainees
were released because the security services had completed
their "required interrogation." Hoodonline.org, a human
rights website, reported on October 9 that the four had been
transferred from Guatanamo Bay in June 2007. Post had no
prior knowledge that these releases had taken place.
However, the ROYG Attorney General,s Office confirmed their
release on October 10.
2. (C) The security sources who confirmed the release of the
former detainees to LEGATT noted that the ROYG had done so
because they found no prosecutable offense to charge them
with. This highlights a long-standing problem with Yemeni
counter-terrorism efforts. The lack of an effective
counterterrorism law combined with that fact that Yemeni laws
do not cover crimes committed outside of the country means
that, even when security forces capture terrorists, they are
limited in their legal ability to hold them. Yemeni
officials report that they are in the process of drafting a
new CT law. Post offered USG assistance drafting the law,
but the ROYG declined (reftel).
BRYAN
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/15/2017
TAGS: PREL PTER KAWC YM
SUBJECT: FOUR GTMO DETAINEES RELEASED
REF: SANAA 1901
Classified By: CDA Angie Bryan for reasons 1.4(b) and (d)
1. (C) Yemeni online news outlets reported on October 9 and
10 that four prisoners who had previously been detained at
Guantanamo Bay had been released. According to the
pro-government website 26 September.net, the four, Fawaz
Noman Hamoud, Ali Muhsen Nasser, Sadiq Mohamed Saeed Ismael
and Hani Abdo Musleh Shallan, were released on October 9.
They had been held by the Aden based Political Security
Service. The report also indicated that the former detainees
were released because the security services had completed
their "required interrogation." Hoodonline.org, a human
rights website, reported on October 9 that the four had been
transferred from Guatanamo Bay in June 2007. Post had no
prior knowledge that these releases had taken place.
However, the ROYG Attorney General,s Office confirmed their
release on October 10.
2. (C) The security sources who confirmed the release of the
former detainees to LEGATT noted that the ROYG had done so
because they found no prosecutable offense to charge them
with. This highlights a long-standing problem with Yemeni
counter-terrorism efforts. The lack of an effective
counterterrorism law combined with that fact that Yemeni laws
do not cover crimes committed outside of the country means
that, even when security forces capture terrorists, they are
limited in their legal ability to hold them. Yemeni
officials report that they are in the process of drafting a
new CT law. Post offered USG assistance drafting the law,
but the ROYG declined (reftel).
BRYAN