Gouled Hassan Dourad
| Gouled Hassan Dourad جوليد حسن دوراد | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1974 (age 49–50) Somalia |
| Arrested | 2004 Somalia |
| Detained at | CIA black sites Guantanamo |
| ISN | 10023 |
| Status | still held in Guantanamo |
| Spouse | yes |
| Children | 4 |
Gouled Hassan Dourad (Template:Lang-so, Template:Lang-ar), born 1974, is a citizen of Somalia who is held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantánamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba.[1]
Gouled Hassan Dourad arrived at Guantanamo on September 6, 2006, and has been held there for 18 years, 3 months and 16 days.[1][2][3][4]
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.[5][6] He traveled to Sweden and gained asylum there in 1993. In 1994, he attempted travel to the United States but was turned back in Iceland on account of his fraudulent passport.
Alleged ties to terrorism
According to American counter-terrorism officials, 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.[5] Gouled 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. By late 1996 he returned to Somalia.
American counterterrorism officials assert 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.[5] He fought against the Ethiopians in Ogaden off and on from 1997 to 2002 and trained AIAI fighters. He allegedly became associated with al-Qaeda because its members were in Somalia and his AIAI cell supported the al-Qaeda. Gouled 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. Gouled 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.
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.[1] 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.[1] 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.[1]
Following Gouled's arrest, AIAI terrorists on March 19, 2004, tried unsuccessfully to kidnap a German aid worker and murdered a Kenyan contract employee in Hargeysa.[1]
Mother's appeal
On November 23, 2009 Africa News published a profile of Gouled's mother, Adar Mohammed Yusuf, who asserted that he was innocent.[7] Adar said her son was captured by a Somali warlord in 2004.
Adar was quoted as saying:
"If my son is a terrorist, why isn't he charged accordingly in a court of law. I am calling on the Somali government and human rights groups to look at my son’s case.”
Africa News reports Goulad was captured by the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism, which was associated with the CIA.[7] Africa News reports that Goulad was one of dozens of captives apprehended by the Alliance.
Goulad's mother asserted that he had four children.[7]
Joint Review Task Force
When he assumed office in January 2009 President Barack Obama made a number of promises about the future of Guantanamo.[8][9][10] He promised the use of torture would cease at the camp. He promised to institute a new review system. That new review system was composed of officials from six departments, where the OARDEC reviews were conducted entirely by the Department of Defense. When it reported back, a year later, the Joint Review Task Force classified some individuals as too dangerous to be transferred from Guantanamo, even though there was no evidence to justify laying charges against them. On April 9, 2013, that document was made public after a Freedom of Information Act request.[11] Guleed Hassan Ahmed was one of the 71 individuals deemed too innocent to charge, but too dangerous to release. Although Obama promised that those deemed too innocent to charge, but too dangerous to release would start to receive reviews from a Periodic Review Board less than a quarter of men have received a review.
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f "Biographies of High Value Terrorist Detainees Transferred to the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay" (PDF) (Press release). Office of the Director of National Intelligence. 2006-09-06. Retrieved 2006-12-16.
- ^ Margot Williams (2008-11-03). "Guantanamo Docket: Gouled Hassan Dourad". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-03-30.
- ^ JTF-GTMO (2007-03-16). "Measurements of Heights and Weights of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba". Department of Defense. Retrieved 2008-12-22. mirror
- ^ "Measurements of Heights and Weights of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (ordered and consolidated version)". Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas, from DoD data. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-12-21.
- ^ a b c "Gouled Hasan Dourad". Countering Terrorism Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-08-31.
- ^ "Gouled Hasan Dourad". United States Department of Defense. 2009-09-06. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-08-31.
- ^ a b c Muhyadin Ahmed Roble (2009-11-23). "``Release my son in Guantanamo``". Africa News. Archived from the original on 2009-11-23.
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Peter Finn (January 22, 2010). "Justice task force recommends about 50 Guantanamo detainees be held indefinitely". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2015-05-19. Retrieved July 21, 2010.
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Peter Finn (May 29, 2010). "Most Guantanamo detainees low-level fighters, task force report says". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2015-05-19. Retrieved July 21, 2010.
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Andy Worthington (June 11, 2010). "Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Guantánamo?". Archived from the original on 2010-06-16. Retrieved July 21, 2010.
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"71 Guantanamo Detainees Determined Eligible to Receive a Periodic Review Board as of April 19, 2013". Joint Review Task Force. 2013-04-09. Archived from the original on 2015-05-19. Retrieved 2015-05-18.
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External links
- UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons Andy Worthington
- David M. Thomas Jr. (2008-09-19). "Recommendation for Continued Detention Under DoD Control (CD) for Guantanamo Detainee, ISN US9SO-010023DP (S)" (PDF). JTF-GTMO.
Media related to File:ISN 10023, Hassan Guleed's Guantanamo detainee assessment.pdf at Wikimedia Commons
