Hassan bin 'Attash

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash

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place_of_birth = Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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id_number = 1456
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alias = Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash,
Hassan Mohammed Salih Bin Attash
charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention, previously held in "the dark prison"
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Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment 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] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 1456.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate that Bin Attash was born in 1985, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Clive Stafford Smith said bin Attash was just seventeen when he was captured. [http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7880 Kids of Guantanamo] , "cageprisoners.com, June 15 2005] 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. [http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/11/30/usdom12109.htm List of “Ghost Prisoners” Possibly in CIA Custody] , "Human Rights Watch", December 1 2005] Hassin too claims he spent time in the other prisons, including "the dark prison", prior to being detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HRW/05bee6d5f916310a6f68909e2e67ecf7.htm U.S. Operated Secret 'Dark Prison' in Kabul] , "Reuters", December 19 2005]

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. [http://web.amnesty.org/pages/stoptorture-061120-features-eng Guantánamo: pain and distress for thousands of children] , "Amnesty International"] [http://www.reprieve.org.uk/press_germanyusedforrendition_06_10_06.htm Reprieve uncovers evidence indicating German territory may have been used in rendition and abuse] , "Reprieve", October 10 2006] [http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/11/30/usdom12109.htm List of “Ghost Prisoners” Possibly in CIA Custody] , Human Rights Watch, December 1 2005] [http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/04/26/7_detainees_report_transfer_to_nations_that_use_torture/ 7 detainees report transfer to nations that use torture] , "Boston Globe", April 26 2006] 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," [http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/04/26/7_detainees_report_transfer_to_nations_that_use_torture/ 7 detainees report transfer to nations that use torture] , "Boston Globe", April 26 2006] "

Peppler repeated the assertion that none of the captive's assertions of abuse were credible because al Qaeda trained operatives to lie about abuse. [http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/04/26/7_detainees_report_transfer_to_nations_that_use_torture/ 7 detainees report transfer to nations that use torture] , "Boston Globe", April 26 2006]

Identity

Captive 1456 was identified inconsistently on official Department of Defense documents:
* Captive 1456 was identified as Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 9 November 2004.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000700-000783.pdf#64
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Bin Attash, Hassan Mohammed Ali (released September 2007)
date=9 November 2004
pages=pages 64-65
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-12-21]
* Captive 1456 was identified as Hassan Mohammed Salih Bin Attash on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his first annual Administrative Review Board, on 31 October 2005.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000895-000943.pdf#1
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Bin Attash, Hassan Mohammed Salih
date=31 October 2005
pages=pages 1-3
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-12-19]

Diego Garcia

Diego Garcia is an isolated Island in the Indian Ocean. It is a British Protectorate, that was controversially depopulated several decades ago, to make room for a large American military base. Human Rights critics have speculated that the American base at Diego Garcia, or American ships moored at Diego Garcia, was the site of an American secret interrogation center.cite news
url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/10/ciarendition.terrorism
title=Fresh questions on torture flights spark demands for inquiry
publisher=The Guardian
author=Richard Norton-Taylor, Duncan Campbell
date=Monday March 10 2008
accessdate=2008-03-17
quote=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.' ] Human Rights group Reprieve reports that flight records show that two captives named
Al-Sharqawi and Hassan bin Attash were flown from Diego Garcia in September 2002.The man and the teenage boy were flown aboard N379P, a plane known to be part of the CIA's ghost fleet.Flight records showed that the plane stopped in Morocco, Portugal, then Kabul.

CSRT-No cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_mar05.pdf#274
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- name redacted (released March 2005)
date=9 November 2004
pages=pages 174-175
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-12-21] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000700-000783.pdf#64
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Bin Attash, Hassan Mohammed Ali (released September 2007)
date=9 November 2004
pages=pages 64-65
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-12-21]

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Transcript

There is no record that captive 1456 participated in this Board hearing.

Second annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash's second annualAdministrative Review Board, on
15 September 2006.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_900-1009.pdf#73
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Ali Bin Attash, Hassan Mohammed
date=15 September 2006
pages=pages 73-75
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-12-21] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

The following primary factors favor continued detention:

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The following primary factors favor release or transfer:

::The detainee indicated he did not know what the remote detonators he was asked to transport would be used for.

Transcript

There is no record that captive 1456 participated in this Board hearing.

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