Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab Al Rahabi

Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab al Rahabi is a citizen of Yemen who was held in extrajudicial detention by the United States from December 2001 to June 22, 2015. He was one of the first twenty captives transferred to the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba, on January 11, 2001, and was held there until he was transferred to Montenegro, which granted him politcal asylum.

One of the allegations US intelligence analysts used to justify his detention was that he was captured with a group of thirty Osama bin Laden bodyguards. Historian Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, has criticized this allegation as it required taking at face value the denunciations of captives who lacked credibility.

Al Rahabi, born in 1979 or 1980, was a married man, when he was captured. His wife had just given birth toa daughter.

Al Rahabi was one of the camp's most determined hunger strikers.

Official status reviews

er strie |hunger striks]] Originally the Bush Presidency asserted that captives apprehended in the "war on terror" were not covered by the Geneva Conventions, and could be held indefinitely, without charge, and without an open and transparent review of the justifications for their detention. In 2004 the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that Guantanamo captives were entitled to being informed of the allegations justifying their detention, and were entitled to try to refute them.

Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants

Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a 3x5 meter trailer where the captive sat with his hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor.

Following the Supreme Court's ruling the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants.

Scholars at the Brookings Institute, lead by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations:

• Abd Al Malik Abd Al Wahab was listed as one of the captives who the military alleges were members of either al Qaeda or the Taliban and associated with the other group.
• Abd Al Malik Abd Al Wahab was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... took military or terrorist training in Afghanistan."
• Abd Al Malik Abd Al Wahab was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... served on Osama Bin Laden’s security detail."
• Abd Al Malik Abd Al Wahab was listed as one of the captives who was an "al Qaeda operative".
• Abd Al Malik Abd Al Wahab was listed as one of the "34 [captives] admit to some lesser measure of affiliation—like staying in Taliban or Al Qaeda guesthouses or spending time at one of their training camps."
• Abd Al Malik Abd Al Wahab was listed as one of the captives who had admitted "some form of associational conduct."

Formerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment

On April 25, 2011, whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts. His eleven-page Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on April 28, 2008. It was signed by camp commandant Rear Admiral Mark H. Buzby. He recommended continued detention.