Juma Mohammed Abdul Latif Al Dossary

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Jumah Mohammed Abdul Latif Al Dossari ( _ar. جمعه محمد عبد اللطيف الدوسري) is a Bahraini, formerly held in the American prison for security detainees, Camp Delta, at the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay. After five years of the detention there, three and half of which he spent in solitary confinement, he was released, with no charges against him, to Saudi Arabia in 2007.

His Guantanamo Internee Security Number was 261.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]

In late July 2005, Al-Dossari spoke with his lawyer Joshua Colangelo-Bryan about the summer's first hunger strike. The prisoners ended this strike on July 28, 2005, when guard commander Michael Bumgarner promised concessions.

Speaking in Bahrain in September 2005, following the meeting with his client, Colangelo-Bryan revealed that Al-Dossari had informed him that:
*the detainees were willing to die, if necessary, to resolve their grievances.
*the detainees were protesting their imprisonment without having fair hearings.
*the detainees were protesting interference with their religious practices, including interruption of the call to prayer by prison officers who talked loudly during the call and even mimicked it.
*the detainees were served food which was often rotten and tap water which was yellow and brackish.
*the number of detainees being given acute medical attention had overwhelmed the camp's infirmary, and that critically ill detainees were in cots in the interrogation area.

Colangelo-Bryan believed that Al-Dossari joined in the summer's second hunger strike, which started approximately August 8, 2005.

The campaign to free the detainee is being led by Bahraini MP Mohammed Khalid.

Chicago Public Radio's program, This American Life, featured Al Dossary in a Peabody Award-winning broadcast about Guantanamo in 2006.

Letters from Al Dossary, and his father

On September 5, 2005 the "Gulf Daily News" summarized a letter Al Dossary had written, protesting his innocence. The letter was post-marked June 10, 2005 and described various abuses he had suffered, including:
*cigarettes being extinguished on his body.
*being made to walk on barbed wire.
*being urinated on by GI's.

On September 17, 2005, the "Gulf Daily News" summarized a letter received from Al Dossary's father in which he confirms that he has throat cancer, expects to die soon and pleads to see his son.

Released British detainees reports

British detainees Tarek Dergoul and Shafiq Rasul were released in 2004. They reported that their cells were near Al Dossary's. cite news
url=http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/1430
title=Guantanamo Abuses Caught on Tape, Report Details] ,
publisher=The Newstandard
date=February 2, 2005
author=Jessica Azulay
accessdate=2007-07-17] According to Human Rights Watch::"Rasul also recounted the beating of Bahraini prisoner Jummah Al-Dousari, who was mentally ill and used to shout all the time, say silly things, impersonate the soldiers. One day, he impersonated a female soldier. The upshot was that an Initial Reaction Force (IRF) team was called.cite web
url=http://hrw.org/backgrounder/usa/gitmo1004/9.htm
title=Beatings and other inappropriate use of force
publisher=Human Rights Watch
month=October | year=2004
accessdate=July 16
accessyear=2007] "

"The Newstandard" reports::"When Jumah saw them coming he realized something was wrong and was lying on the floor with his head in his hands. If you’re on the floor with your hands on your head, then you would hope that all they would do would be to come in and put the chains on you. That is what they’re supposed to do.

:"The first man is meant to go in with a shield. On this occasion the man with the shield threw the shield away, took his helmet off, when the door was unlocked ran in and did a knee drop onto Jumah's back just between his shoulder blades with his full weight. He must have been about 240 pounds in weight. His name was Smith. He was a sergeant E5. Once he had done that the others came in and were punching and kicking Jumah…

:"Jumah had had an operation and had metal rods in his stomach clamped together in the operation… [Smith] grabbed his head with one hand and with the other hand punched him repeatedly in the face. His nose was broken. He pushed his face and he smashed it into the concrete floor. All of this should be on video. There was blood everywhere. When they took him out they hosed the cell down and the water ran red with blood. We all saw it."

CSRT-Nocite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000201-000299.pdf#97
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal - Al Dosari, Juma Mohammad Abdull Latif
date=14 September 2004
author=OARDEC
pages=pages 97-98
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-01-14]

:"'a. The detainee is sic member of al Qaeda::#Detainee traveled from his home in Saudi Arabia to Afghanistan in 1989 using an Arab guest house in Pakistan. In Afghanistan the detainee trained at the al-Siddeek training camp where he received instruction on the AK-47.:#The detainee traveled to Bosnia in 1995 to participate in the jihad in exchange for 7-10,000 Saudi Riyals.:#The detainee stated that he traveled to Baku, Azerbaijan in 1996 to join other Arabs and to fight in Chechnya.:#The detainee was arrested by Saudi authorities for questioning in the Khobar Towers bombing in 1996.:#The detainee obtained a passport from Bahrain after his Saudi passport was revoked.:#The detainee traveled from the United States to Afgthanistan via Bahrain and Iran in November 2001.:#The detainee was present at Tora Bora.:#The detainee crossed the border from Afghanistan to Pakistan in December 2001 with neither documentation nor authority and surrendered to Pakistani authorities.

Administrative Review Board hearing

Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings. The Administrative Review Boards weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".

They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat -- or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free.

First annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Juma Mohammed Abdul Latif Al Dosari's first annual Administrative Review Board, on 26 September 2005.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000295-000393.pdf#31
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Dosari, Juma Mohammed Abdul Latif
date=26 September 2005
pages=pages 31-33
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-01-14] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

The following primary factors favor continued detention:

:"'a. Commitment:#In October 2001, the detainee says he traveled to Afghanistan to inspect seven mosques in Kabul, Afghanistan. He says he was asked to go to Afghanistan by his local Imam, in Deman, Saudi Arabia, named Muhammad Agelan.:#The detainee stated Agelan provided him sic $3,000 United States Dollars and instructed him to meet a man named Muhammad Gul in Meshed, Iran. The detainee first traveled to Bahrain where he obtained a Bahraini passport and subsequently traveled to Meshed, Iran.:#Once in Meshed, Iran, the detainee purchased a room at the Atlas Hotel. The next morning, Gul arrived at the Atlas Hotel and they both traveled, via taxi, into Afghanistan.:#The detainee and Gul crossed the border into Afghanistan near the city of Herat, Afghanistan and continued on to Kabul, Afghanistan. Once in Kabul, they both stayed at a house owned by Gul.:#The detainee and Gul stayed in Kabul for approximately three weeks before traveling to another house, owned by Gul, in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.:#After leaving Jalalabad, the detainee walked to the Pakistani border where he was arrested and detained by the Pakistani authorities. He did not have his passport in his possession when he was taken into custody, because he said Gul had taken his passport while they were in Jalalabad.:#The detainee stated that when he arrived in Afghanistan he gave Gul his passport, over 20,000 United States Dollars and his notebook.:#The detainee was witnessed as the cook in Tora Bora.:#The detainee said that he was in Bosnia during the was with Serbia and spent time in Saudi prisons. He said that he was imprisoned for being a member of Al Motoaien, a.k.a. Al Mujahadeen sic, and for participating in the Cole bombing.:#Al Motoaien is a network in Saudi Arabia involved in document forgery, weapons and poisons smuggling.

:"'b. Training:#The detainee also traveled from Islamabad to Peshawar, Pakistan and stayed in an Arab guesthouse called Beit Al-Ansar. The leader of this house was an ex-Mujahid from Saudi Arabia. While at the house the detainee was told about two military camps for training in Afghanistan.:#The detainee attended the Al-Siddeek camp. The Al-Siddeek camp was located near Khowst, Afghanistan and the detainee received physical exercise and training on the Kalashnikov.

:"'c. Connections/Associations:#The detainee stated that Sheik Mohammed Al-Shiha from Dammam, Saudi Arabia offered to pay his rent and provided him with 7,000 to 10,000 Saudi Riyals if he would agree to journey to Bosnia to fight. He did so in 1995.:#An al Qaida operative said that Al-Shiha might have supported the Wafa Al-Igatha Al-Islamia, a.k.a., Wafa organization, during the Chechnyan conflict. He also stated that Al-Shiha was a supporter of the Mujahidin.:#The detainee traveled to Mecca and met a man named Abu Abass Al-Emiraitii sic.:#The detainee was invited to Chechnya to fight, but he told Abu Abass he had no money for the trip so Abu Abass gave him with sic 3,000 to 4,000 Saudi Riyals in addition to travel expenses.:#The detainee traveled to Bahrain, went to the United States embassy and received a five-year tourism visa. His father gave him 19,000 Saudi Riyals for his trip to the United States and he flew form Bahrain to Istanbul, Turkey to Chicago, Illinois to Indianapolis, Indiana and was picked up at the airport and taken to Terre Haute, Indiana. The detainee was there for approximately two months before returning to Saudi Arabia to visit his sick father. After eight months in Saudi Arabia, the detainee returned to the United States and made side trips to Michigan and Buffalo, New York.:#The detainee said that he traveled to Lackawana, New York from Indiana after speaking with a man at a local area mosque.:#The detainee worked as an imam at the Buffalo area mosque.:#The detainee stated that he was shocked to learn that his acquaintance is involved with al Qaida or any jihadist activity. He also said that it seemed illogical that this acquaintance and Jamaat Tabligh could be so involved.

:"'d. Other Relevant Data:#The detainee decided to return to Saudi Arabia so he flew to Bahrain and was arrested by Saudi Intelligence under suspicion stemming from the Khobar Towers bombing and his foreign travel. The Saudi government held him fro approximately three months, but his passport was revoked for one and a half years.:#The detainee spent time in prison in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He was eventually released and returned to Dammam, but his passport was revoked for five years.:#The detainee's name is found listed as number 49 on a computer media listing of mujahideen that was seized during safe house raids against al Qaida associated safe houses. The list identifies each individual's trust account and the detainee is noted as having a passport and identification card.:#A United States psychologist obtained a copy of a translated suicide letter drafted by the detainee that said, "All that was going to ruin my reputation abroad, and that my family would learn their son is a terrorist and has taken innocent lives."

The following primary factors favor release or transfer:

:

ee also

*Essa Al Murbati
*Salah Abdul Rasool Al Blooshi
*Adel Kamel Hajee
*Salman Ebrahim Mohamed Ali Al Khalifa
*Abdulla Majid Al Naimi

References

External links

* [http://wid.ap.org/documents/detainees/jumaaldosari.pdf (.pdf) documents from] Al Dossary's Combatant Status Review Tribunal
* [http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/1yr_arc_Articles.asp?Article=121195&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=28169&date=9/5/2005 'Help me' plea by Bay detainee] , "Gulf Daily News", September 5, 2005
* [http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/1yr_arc_Articles.asp?Article=122178&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=28181&date=9/17/2005 Free my son plea by dying Bahraini father] , "Gulf Daily News", September 17, 2005
* [http://www.aljazeerah.info/News%20archives/2005%20News%20Archives/September/22%20n/Lawyer%20Reveals%20Causes%20for%20Guantanamo%20Hunger%20Strike.htm Lawyer Reveals Causes for Guantanamo Hunger Strike] , "Al Jazeera", September 22, 2005
* [http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/1yr_arc_Articles.asp?Article=123809&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=28201&date=10/7/2005 Bahrain 'probing strike reports'] , "Gulf Daily News", October 7, 2005
* [http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/1107-12.htm Family of Suicidal Guantanamo Detainee Plead for his Healthy Return] Commondreams.org News Center, November 7, 2005
* [http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/1yr_arc_Articles.asp?Article=126369&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=28233&date=11/8/2005 Al Dossary 'still being grilled at Guantanamo'] , "Gulf Daily News", November 8, 2005
* [http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR511072005 Days of Adverse Hardship in US Detention Camps - Testimony of Guantanamo Detainee Jumah Al-Dossari] , Amnesty International, December 16, 2005
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/16/AR2005121601784.html Suicidal Guantanamo Inmate Moved Out of Isolation] , "Washington Post", December 17, 2005
* [http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Bahrain/10020447.html Early release unlikely for Guantanamo detainee] , Gulf News, February 22, 2006
* [http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-dossari11jan11,0,3342644.story?coll=la-home-commentary& A voice from Gitmo's darkness] , Los Angeles Times Op-Ed, January 11, 2007
*cite news
url=http://www.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=The+Minutes+of+the+Guant%E1namo+Bay+Bar+Association+--+New+York+Magazine&expire=&urlID=18608268&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnymag.com%2Fnews%2Ffeatures%2F17337%2F%23&partnerID=73272
title=The Minutes of the Guantánamo Bay Bar Association
publisher=New York Magazine
year=2006
author=Stacy Sullivan
accessdate=2007-07-16
*cite web
url=http://humanrights.ucdavis.edu/projects/the-guantanamo-testimonials-project/testimonies/testimomies-of-lawyers/colangelo-bryan-talking-dog-interview
date=January 25, 2006
title=The Talking Dog Blog Interview with Joshua Colangelo Bryan
publisher=Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas
accessdate=July 16
accessyear=2007
* [http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1185]