Abu Hareth Muhammad al-Awfi
| Mohamed Atiq Awayd Al Harbi | |
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Said Ali Al Shiri and Mohamed Atiq Awayd Al Harbi and two other men appeared in an alarming video in January 2009
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| Born |
July 13, 1973 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Detained at | Guantanamo |
| ISN | 333 |
| Charge(s) | No charge (held in extrajudicial detention) |
| Status | Released to Saudi custody |
Mohamed Atiq Awayd Al Harbi is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 333. The US Department of Defense reports that he was born on July 13, 1973, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Muhammad al Awfi was transferred to Saudi Arabia on November 9, 2007.
Independent counter-terrorism consultants at the SITE Institute assert a man identified as Abu Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi is actually Al Harbi.
Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives from the war on terror. This policy was challenged before the Judicial branch. Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct competent tribunals to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of prisoner of war status.
Subsequently, the Department of Defense instituted the Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The Tribunals, however, were not authorized to determine whether the captives were lawful combatants—rather they were merely empowered to make a recommendation whether the captive had previously been correctly determined to match the Bush administration's definition of an enemy combatant.
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Combatant Status Review Tribunal on
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