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Ali Ahmad Muhammad Al Rahizi is a citizen of Yemen currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 45. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts reports he was born on October 13, 1979, in Ta'iz, Yemen.

Ali Ahmad Muhammad al Rahizi arrived at Guantanamo on January 11, 2002, and has been held there for.

Combatant Status Review
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for his tribunal. The memo accused him of the following:

Conclusion
Ali Ahmad Muhammad Al Rahizi's Tribunal based its conclusion on classified evidence. His Tribunal unanimously concluded that he had properly been deternmined to have been an "enemy combatant".

Ali Ahmed Mohammed Al Rezehi v. George W. Bush
A writ of habeas corpus, Ali Ahmed Mohammed Al Rezehi v. George W. Bush, was submitted on Ali Ahmed Mohammed Al Rezehi's behalf. In response, on 14 October 2004 the Department of Defense released 26 pages of unclassified documents related to his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

Mentioned in the "No-hearing hearings" study
According to the study entitled, No-hearing hearings, there was an anomaly in Al Rahizi's record. Al Rahizi's Personal Representative met with him for twenty minutes on September 23, 2004. Al Rahizi's Tribunal convened on September 28, 2004, without Al Rahizi being present.

The study quoted from the Summary of the Basis for Tribunal Decision:

The study then commented:

Administrative Review Board
Detainees whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal labeled them "enemy combatants" were scheduled for annual Administrative Review Board hearings. These hearings were designed to assess the threat a detainee might pose if released or transferred, and whether there were other factors that warranted his continued detention.

The factors for and against continuing to detain Al Rahizi were among the 121 that the Department of Defense released on March 3, 2006.

First annual Administrative Review Board
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Ali Ahmad Muhammad Al Rahizi's second annual Administrative Review Board, on 31 January 2005. The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

The following primary factors favor continued detention

The following primary factors favor release or transfer

Transcript
There is no record that Ali Ahmed Mohammed Al Razehi participated in his first annual Review. An affidavit his brother sent to Guantanamo was included with the ARB transcripts. According to his brother their 65 year old father supports their family by selling vegetables from a cart. Ali Ahmed Mohmmed Al Razehi finished high school. He then went and fulfilled his obligatory national military service. He disappeared soon afterwards.

According to his brother:
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 * Everyone in our area loved him because he had such a good sense of humor. He used to make fun of the accents of Aden people in a particularly amusing way. He also had a very beautiful and polite manner.
 * Everyone in our area loved him because he had such a good sense of humor. He used to make fun of the accents of Aden people in a particularly amusing way. He also had a very beautiful and polite manner.


 * I do not believe that my brother would have done anything criminal or violent. He was not gone for very long, and would not have changed that much. He could never harm anyone. His religion forbids him ot harm or kill anyone and he took that very seriously.
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Second annual Administrative Review Board
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Ali Ahmad Muhammad Al Rahizi's second annual Administrative Review Board, on 19 July 2006. The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

The following primary factors favor continued detention

The following primary factors favor release or transfer

Third annual Administrative Review Board
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Ali Ahmad Muhammad Al Rahizi's third annual Administrative Review Board, on 19 July 2006. The three page memo listed fourteen "primary factors favor[ing] continued detention" and five "primary factors favor[ing] release or transfer".

Board recommendations
One January 9, 2009, the Department of Defense published two heavily redacted memos, from his Board, to Gordon England, the Designated Civilian Official. The Board's recommendation was unanimous The Board's recommendation was redacted. England authorized his continued detention on November 13, 2007.