Bashir Nashir Al-Marwalah

Bashir Nashir Ali Al-Marwalah is a Yemeni, who was captured in Pakistan, on September 11, 2002, and transferred to extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 837. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts reports that Al-Marwalah was born on December 1, 1979, in Al-Haymah, Yemen.

Bashir Al-Marwalah was apprehended by a combined force of Pakistani security officials and a CIA black site team, on 11 September 2002—the anniversary of al Qaeda's attack within the USA. He and five other individuals spent slightly more than a month in CIA custody at the Salt Pit, prior to being transferred to Guantanamo. Guantanamo analysts maintained the narrative that these six were an al Qaeda sleeper cell they called the "Karachi Six". However, that claim had been dropped by his 2016 Periodic Review Board hearing.

As of December 3, 2009, Bashir Nasir Ali Al-Marwalah had been held at Guantanamo for seven years two months.

Al-Marwalah was transferred to the United Arab Emirates on August 13, 2016.

Official status reviews
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


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 Institution, led by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations:


 * Bashir Nasir Ali Al-Marwalah was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... are Al Qaeda fighters."
 * Bashir Nasir Ali Al-Marwalah was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... traveled to Afghanistan for jihad."
 * Bashir Nasir Ali Al-Marwalah was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges that the following detainees stayed in Al Qaeda, Taliban or other guest- or safehouses|stayed in Al Qaeda, Taliban, or other guest- or safehouses."
 * Bashir Nasir Ali Al-Marwalah was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... took military or terrorist training in Afghanistan."
 * Bashir Nasir Ali Al-Marwalah was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... fought for the Taliban."
 * Bashir Nasir Ali Al-Marwalah was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges that the following detainees were captured under circumstances that strongly suggest belligerency."
 * Bashir Nasir Ali Al-Marwalah was listed as one of the captives who was an "al Qaeda operative".
 * Bashir Nasir Ali Al-Marwalah was listed as one of "36 [captives who] openly admit either membership or significant association with Al Qaeda, the Taliban, or some other group the government considers militarily hostile to the United States."
 * Bashir Nasir Ali Al-Marwalah was listed as one of the captives who had admitted "fighting on behalf of Al Qaeda or the Taliban."