Hassan bin Attash

Hassan Mohammed Ali bin Attash
Born	circa 1985 (age 25–26) Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Detained at	Guantanamo, previously held in "the dark prison"
Alternate name	Hassan Mohammed Salih Bin Attash
ISN	1456
Status	Still held in Guantanamo

Hassan Mohammed Ali bin Attash (Arabic: حسن محمد علي بن عطاش‎, Ḥasan Muḥammad ʿAlī bin ‘Aṭṭash) is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1] Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate that bin Attash was born in 1985, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

As of June 11, 2011, Hassan Mohammed Ali bin Attash has been held at Guantanamo for six years nine months.^[2]

Attash was just sixteen or seventeen when he was captured.^[3][4] Hassin is the brother of Waleed Mohammed bin Attash, who has also been described as an inmate in the CIA's network of secret prisons.^[5] Hassin too claims he spent time in the other prisons, including "the dark prison", prior to being detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.^[6]

Human Rights Concern

The circumstances of Hassan bin Attash have triggered the attention of several human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, Reprieve and Human Rights Watch.^[5][7][8][9] According to their accounts Hassan bin Attash was captured on September 10, 2002, spent time in the dark prison, spent four months in Jordan, where he was hung upside down, and beaten on the soles of his feet, which were then immersed in salt water. They assert that he underwent this kind of questioning until he was willing to sign anything. They claim that he wasn't interrogated about anything he himself had done, but rather about the activity of his older brother. They assert that his 70 year-old father underwent similar questioning. Bin Attash was flown to Guantanamo in March 2003.

The Boston Globe quoted Guantanamo spokesmen Lieutenant Commander Chito Peppler, who insisted, "US policy requires all detainees to be treated humanely,"^[9]

Peppler repeated the assertion that none of the captive's assertions of abuse were credible because al Qaeda trained operatives to lie about abuse.^[9]

Transportation to Guantanamo Bay

Human Rights group Reprieve reports that flight records show two captives named Al-Sharqawi and Hassan bin Attash were flown from Kabul in September 2002. The two men were flown aboard N379P, a plane suspected to be part of the CIA's ghost fleet. Flight records showed that the plane originally departed from Diego Garcia, stopped in Morocco, Portugal, then Kabul before landing in Guantanamo Bay.^[10]

Habeas corpus

A writ of habeas corpus was filed on behalf of Bin Attash.^[11]

See also

• Minors detained in the global war on terror
• Extraordinary rendition by the United States

References

1. ^ OARDEC (May 15, 2006). "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-29. 
2. ^ "Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash - The Guantánamo Docket". The New York Times. http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/1456-hassan-mohammed-ali-bin-attash. 
3. ^ Kids of Guantanamo, cageprisoners.com, June 15, 2005
4. ^ http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2011/06/11/wikileaks-and-the-22-children-of-guantanamo/
5. ^ ^{a b} List of “Ghost Prisoners” Possibly in CIA Custody, Human Rights Watch, December 1, 2005
6. ^ U.S. Operated Secret 'Dark Prison' in Kabul, Reuters, December 19, 2005
7. ^ Guantánamo: pain and distress for thousands of children, Amnesty International
8. ^ Reprieve uncovers evidence indicating German territory may have been used in rendition and abuse, Reprieve, October 10, 2006
9. ^ ^{a b c} 7 detainees report transfer to nations that use torture, Boston Globe, April 26, 2006
10. ^ Richard Norton-Taylor, Duncan Campbell (March 10, 2008). "Fresh questions on torture flights spark demands for inquiry". London: The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/10/ciarendition.terrorism. Retrieved 2008-03-17. "Flight plan records show that one of the aircraft, registered N379P, flew in September 2002 from Diego Garcia to Morocco. From there it flew to Portugal and then to Kabul. Passenger names have been blacked out. However, Reprieve, which represents prisoners faced with the death penalty and torture, said that in Kabul the aircraft picked up Al-Sharqawi and Hassan bin Attash, two suspects who were tortured in Jordan before being rendered to Afghanistan and flown to Guantánamo Bay. Those rendered through Diego Garcia remain unidentified. In a letter to Miliband, Clive Stafford Smith, Reprieve's legal director, said: 'It is certainly not going to rebuild public confidence if we say that two people were illegally taken through British territory but then refuse to reveal the fates of these men.'" 
11. ^ David H. Remes, Marc D. Falkoff (2008-07-18). "Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation: Doc 152 -- STATUS REPORT". United States Department of Justice. http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/district-of-columbia/dcdce/1:2008mc00442/131990/152/0.pdf. Retrieved 2008-09-23.  mirror

External links

• The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo Andy Worthington
• UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record Andy Worthington

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