Gouled Hassan Dourad

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subject_name = Gouled Hassan Dourad

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date_of_birth = Birth year and age|1974
place_of_birth = Somalia
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detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 10023
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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csrt_summary = [http://www.defenselink.mil/news/ISN10023.pdf#1 1-3]
csrt_transcript= [http://www.defenselink.mil/news/transcript_ISN10023.pdf#1 1-7]
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Gouled Hassan Dourad (Somali: "Guuleed Xasan Duurad", born 1974) is a citizen of Somalia and who is currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantánamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.cite press release
title = Biographies of High Value Terrorist Detainees Transferred to the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay
publisher = Office of the Director of National Intelligence
date= 2006-09-06
url = http://www.dni.gov/announcements/content/DetaineeBiographies.pdf
format = PDF
accessdate = 2006-12-16] His Guantana Internee Security Number is 10023.

Early life

Gouled was born in Mogadishu, Somalia. When the Somali Civil War erupted in 1991, his parents sent him to Germany where he lived in a refugee camp. Fact|date=August 2007He traveled to Sweden and gained asylum there in 1993.Fact|date=August 2007In 1994 he attempted travel to the United States but was turned back in Iceland because of his fraudulent passport.Fact|date=August 2007

Alleged ties to terrorism

While in Sweden, Gouled attended a Somali mosque, whose imam arranged for Gouled and his friend, future AIAI bombmaker Qasim Mohamed, to train in Afghanistan before joining the Somali war effort.Fact|date=August 2007Gouled trained at the Khalden camp in weapons and explosives from January through October 1996, and at another camp in Khost in assassination techniques for several months.Fact|date=August 2007By late 1996 he returned to Somalia.Fact|date=August 2007

Gouled became a member of AIAI in 1997 out of a commitment to support the Somali war against Ethiopia and to win the Ogaden region of Ethiopia back to Somalia.Fact|date=August 2007He fought against the Ethiopians in Ogaden off and on from 1997 to 2002 and trained AIAI fighters.Fact|date=August 2007He allegedly became associated with al-Qaeda because its members were in Somalia and his AIAI cell supported the al-Qaeda.Fact|date=August 2007Gouled was introduced to Abu Talha al-Sudani, who came to Mogadishu to hide following the Mombasa attacks in November 2003, in early 2003 by his AIAI cell leader.Fact|date=August 2007Gouled was recruited to work for al-Sudani, in part, because he had trained in Afghanistan: spoke Arabic, English, some Swedish and Somali, and had a high-school education.Fact|date=August 2007

According to the United States Director of National Intelligence, Gouled was the head of the Mogadishu-based facilitation network of al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI) members that supported al-Qaeda members in Somalia.Gouled was a member of a small, selective group of AIAI members who worked for the East African al-Qaida cell led by Abu Talha al-Sudani. Gouled's responsibilities included locating safehouses, assisting in the transfer of funds, and procuring weapons, explosives and other supplies. Gouled was privy to several terrorist plots under consideration by his AIAI cell, including shooting down an Ethiopian jetliner landing at an airport in Somalia in 2003 and kidnapping Western NGO-workers in Hargeysa, Somalia, in 2002 as a means to raise money for future AIAI operations.

Following Gouled's arrest, AIAI terrorists on March 192004, tried unsuccessfully to kidnap a German aid worker and murdered a Kenyan contract employee in Hargeysa.

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

CSRT-Yescite web
url=http://www.defenselink.mil/news/ISN10023.pdf#1
pages=pages 1-3
title=Summary of Evidence for Goulad Hassan Dourad
publisher=Department of Defense
author=OARDEC
date=April 25 2007
accessdate=2007-05-09]

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Transcript

Gouled Hassan Dourad chose not to attend his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.cite web
url=http://www.defenselink.mil/news/transcript_ISN10023.pdf#1
title=Verbatim transcript for detainee 10023
publisher=Department of Defense
author=OARDEC
date=April 28 2007
accessdate=2007-05-09] But his Personal Representative read a statement on his behalf::

ee also

*Mehdi Ghezali

References

Persondata
NAME=Dourad, Gouled Hassan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Guantanamo Bay detainee
DATE OF BIRTH=1974
PLACE OF BIRTH=Mogadishu, Somalia