- Sami Essid
Sami bin Khamis bin Salih Essid ( _ar. Italian] cell until his arrest outside
Milan in April 2001. He received a five-year sentence for trafficking in arms, explosives, and chemicals [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901020304-212739,00.html The Second Time Around] , "Time", 25 February 2002; with a photo of Essid.] . Essid remains under embargo by theUnited Nations Security Council Committee 1267 US Treasury [http://usinfo.state.gov/is/Archive_Index/U.S._Blocks_Assets_of_10_More_Terrorism_Financiers.html U.S. Blocks Assets of 10 More Terrorism Financiers] , U.S. Department of the Treasury, 19 April 2002] for his terrorist activity. Around 1 July 2007, fresh charges against Sami Essid were read in Italy, where he was still in custody. [http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL0771840320070607 Reuters report] of arrests of GSPC members, 7 July 2007]According to the UN he was born on 10 February 1968 in Menzel Jemil,
Bizerte Governorate ,Tunisia .Guantanamo connection
Following the
United States Supreme Court ruling inRasul v. Bush , theUnited States Department of Defense was forced to conduct reviews of the combatant status of the captives held inextrajudicial detention in itsGuantanamo Bay detainment camp s, inCuba .The allegations that Guantanamo
counter-terror analysts offered to justify the detention of several of these captives assert that they had an association with Sami Essid, or the Sami Essid Network. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_mar05.pdf#176 Summary of Evidence (.pdf)] prepared forAdil Mabrouk Bin Hamida 's "Combatant Status Review Tribunal " -October 8 2004 - page 176] [http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_50_3381-3489.pdf#48 Summarized transcripts (.pdf)] , fromAdil Mabrouk Bin Hamida 's "Combatant Status Review Tribunal " - pages 48-58] [http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Transcript_Set_1_395-584.pdf#64 Summarized transcript (.pdf)] , fromLufti Bin Ali 's "Administrative Review Board hearing" - page 64] [http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Factors_Set_2_1046-1160.pdf#51 Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf)] ofRidah Bin Saleh Al Yazidi "Administrative Review Board ",May 4 2005 - pages 51-53]References
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