Muhassen Al-Asskari

Muhassen Al-Asskari was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.cite news
url=http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1014&p=local&a=1
title=Ex-Guantanamo detainees in detention
date=January 7 2007
accessdate=2007-01-08
publisher=Yemen Times]

Identity

On January 7 2007 the "Yemen Times" identified five of six Yemenis transferred from Guantanamo to Yemeni custody in early December 2006.The names of four of those five men:
Esam Hamid Al-Jaefi, Ali Hussain Al-Tais, Mohammed Ahmed Al-Asadi, Tawfiq Al-Murwai match names on the lists of captives the US Department of Defense has released. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", April 20 2006] [http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] However, the fifth name, Muhassen Al-Asskari does not match any of the names of Guantanamo captives the DoD has acknowledged holding.

Repatriation

Yemen's President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, demanded the release of the remaining Yemenis held in Guantanamo on December 23 2006.cite news
url=http://www.yobserver.com/article-11423.php
title=Saleh demands release of Guantanamo detainees
author=Nasser Arrabyee
date=December 23 2006
publisher=Yemen Observer
accessdate=2006-12-29] The "Yemen Observer" identified Mohammed Ahmed al-Asadi, Esam Hamid al-Jaefi and Ali Hussain al-Tais as three of the six Yemeni who had been repatriated the previous week.Al Asadi, the first of the six men to be released, on December 29 2006, was asked to sign an undertaking promising to refrain from armed activity.cite news
url=http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/06/12/29/10092755.html
title=Guantanamo detainee released
publisher=Gulf News
date=December 29 2006
accessdate=2006-12-29
author=Nasser Arrabyee] On January 7 2007 the "Yemen Times" identified two of the three remaining men as
Tawfiq Al-Murwai and Muhassen Al-Asskari.cite news
url=http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1014&p=local&a=1
title=Ex-Guantanamo detainees in detention
date=January 7 2007
accessdate=2007-01-08
publisher=Yemen Times] Yemen's President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, said the men would be released as soon as Yemeni authorities had cleared them.

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