Sadeq Muhammad Sa'id Ismail

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Sadeq Muhammad Sa id Ismail

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date_of_birth = Birth year and age|1982
place_of_birth = Jabal Haimain, Yemen
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detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 69
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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Sadeq Muhammad Sa id Ismail is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf
title=List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=May 15 2006
accessdate=2007-09-29
format=PDF] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 69.Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate he was born in 1982, in
Jabal Haimain, Yemen.

Identity

The "Yemen Times" reported, on March 11 2007, that a Yemeni named Sadeq Mohammed Ismail, who was also born in Ibb, was on the list of Yemenis who had been cleared for release.cite news
url=http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1032&p=front&a=1
date=March 11 2007
accessdate=2007-03-15
publisher=Yemen Times
title=Yemeni detainees are the largest group at Guantánamo
author=Amel Al-Ariqi] The official list does not include a captive named Sadeq Mohammed Ismail. [http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] It does include two detainees whose names are near matches:
* Sadeq Muhammad Sa'id Ismail's name might be a closer match, but he is from Jabal Haimain, not Ibb.
* Yasin Qasem Muhammad Ismail is from Ibb, but his name is not as close a match.

CSRT-Yescite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000001-000100.pdf#85
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Ismail, Sadeq Muhammad Sa'id
date=20 September 2004
author=OARDEC
pages=pages 85-86
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-12=03] cite web
url=http://www.cageprisoners.com/downloads/sadeqismail.pdf#16
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Ismail, Sadeq Muhammad Sa'id
date=20 September 2004
author=OARDEC
pages=pages 16-17
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-12-03]

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Board recommendations

The Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants was obliged to hold annual reviews of captives status. In September 2007 the Department of Defense published all the Summary of Evidence memos prepared for the Administrative Review Boards convened in 2005 or 2006.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_1_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf
title=Index to Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round One
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=August 9 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29
format=PDF] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_2_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf
title=Index of Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round Two
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=July 17 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29
format=PDF] They also published heavily redacted versions of the recommendation memos for the 180 captive the 2005 and 2006 who were cleared for release through their Review Boards.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_transfer_release_decision_ARB_Round_1.pdf
title=Index to Transfer and Release Decision for Guantanamo Detainees
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=July 17 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29
format=PDF] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_2_Decision_Memos.pdf Index
title=Index of Transfer and Release Decision for Guantanamo Detainees from ARB Round Two
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=August 10 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29]

There is no record that his 2005 Review Board recommended his repatriation.There is no record that an Administrative Review Board convened in 2006 to review his detention.

Release

On June 19 2007 six men were released from Guantanamo.cite news
url=http://www.miamiherald.com/416/story/144779.html
title=Six more detainees leave Guantánamo
publisher=Miami Herald
date=June 19 2007
author=Carol Rosenberg
accessdate=2007-06-19] According to the "Miami Herald", the Center for Constitutional Rights identified one of the men as a 25 year old Yemeni named "Sadeq Mohammed Said".

The "Gulf News" profiled Sadeq Mohammed Said on October 22, 2007, following what it reported was his first interview since his release from custody, on October 12 2007.cite news
url=http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/10/23/10162074.html
title='I don't know why I was arrested and released'
publisher=Gulf News
author=Nasser Arrabyee
date=October 22, 2007
accessdate=2008-05-11
quote=] The article reported that he acknowledged that he "joined one of the Taliban battlelines."The article reported that he described religious persecution in Guantanamo, including desecration of the Koran.The article reported that he hinted at sexual abuse.The article reported that he described being captured in a hospital bed, not on a battlefield.

The article quoted his brother, Rashad Mohammad Saeed -- who was described as a jihadist who had also served in Afghanistan.

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