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Issa Ali Abdullah al Murbati
Born	1965 (age 58–59) Manama, Bahrain

Issa Ali Abdullah al Murbati is a citizen of Bahrain who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. Al Murbati's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 52. American counter-terrorism analysts estimate he was born in 1965, in Manama, Bahrain.

Detention in Kandahar

While held at Kandahar Airfield, al-Muarbati and Moazzam Begg began playing chess on a board the International Red Cross had brought for the detainees.

Hunger strike and Force-Feeding

Al Murbati participated in the hunger strikes of 2005.

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives from the war on terror. This policy was challenged before the Judicial branch. Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct competent tribunals to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of prisoner of war status.

Subsequently the Department of Defense instituted the Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The Tribunals, however, were not authorized to determine whether the captives were lawful combatants -- rather they were merely empowered to make a recommendation as to whether the captive had previously been correctly determined to match the Bush administration's definition of an enemy combatant.

Recorder Exhibit List

Template:Importance-section Unusually Al Murbati's dossier contains an Recorder Exhibit List.

#	Title	Support	Location (Paragraph)	Classification
R1	Unclassified Summary			UNCLASSIFIED
R2	FBI Request for Redaction of National Security Information 15 Sept 04	Exhibit R8		UNCLASSIFIED
R3	USDHS, Terrorist Org Ref Guide, dtd Jan 04, pg 3	3.a.4.		UNCLASSIFIED
R4	SIR, dtd 18 Dec 02	3.a.1. 3.a.2	Subject	SECRET
R5	JTF- 170 Knowledgeability Brief, dtd 13 Jun 02	3.a.1. 3.a.2. 3.b.1.	Subject/5.F. Subject 5G	SECRET
R6	SIR, dtd 8 Oct 02	3.a.3,	2.P.2.	SECRET
R7	FBI 302, dtd 09 Jun 02	3.b.1. 3.b.2. 3.b.3.	10. 8. 9.	FOUO//LES
R8	Results of Quarterly Review of Community Counterterrorism Tiers	3.a.4,	Page 2	SECRET/NOFORN
R9	CITF Assessment 10-JAN-03	Summary		SECRET//NOFORN
R10	JTF GTMO Baseball Card			SECRET/NOFORN
Rll	MFR SA ---------------- 24 September 2004	FYI		SECRET//NOFORN
	Additional information added on 27 Sept 04 per board request of 25 Sept 04
R12	OARDEC INTEL RS, RESPONSE dtd 25 Sep 04	R5, pg 3 and date R10		SECRET
R13	JT assessment	R7, pg 2		SECRET//NOFORN
R8	Results of Quarterly Review of Community Counterterrorism Tiers	F7, pg 2,	added page 3	SECRETI/NOFORN

Allegations

The allegations against Al Murbati, from the Summary of Evidence memo, prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, were:

a The detainee is associated with Al Qaeda:

1. On November 2, 2001, detainee voluntarily traveled from Bahrain to Afghanistan.
2. The detainee traveled to Afghanistan via Pakistan where he planned to fight in the ‘’Jihad’‘.
3. Detainee was a follower of Abu Sayyaf

— Abu Sayyef; they met in the Philippines. They discussed getting money to Arabs in Afghanistan.

1. Abu Sayyef Group is a known terrorist organization.

b The detainee participated in military operations against the United States and its coalition partners.

1. Detainee was injured by a grenade while traveling to Khowst, Afghanistan, and given treatment at a hospital.
2. Detainee was told that if he went to war and fought the Jihad, he would be a better person and have his 15,000 Dinar debt forgiven, and eventually he traveled to Afghanistan.
3. Al Murbati discovered that there was not training available in Kandahar, and since he did not know how to use a Kalisnikov rifle, he traveled to Kabul by taxi, after learning there was training there.

Habeas corpus submission

Al Murbati is one of the sixteen Guantanamo captives whose amalgamated habeas corpus submissions were heard by US District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton, on January 31, 2007.

Main article: Gherebi, et al. v. Bush

Al Murbati has been represented by Joshua Colangelo-Bryan and Clive Stafford Smith. A campaign to free him is being led by Bahraini MP Mohammed Khalid.

Release

Al Murbati was released during August 2007. He was the last Bahraini to be released. On Thursday August 23, 2007 the Gulf Daily News reported that Bahraini Member of Parliament Mohammed Khalid had called for the Bahrain government to provide financial compensation to the released men.

See also

• Solitary confinement
• Juma Mohammed Al Dossary
• Salah Abdul Rasool Al Blooshi
• Adel Kamel Hajee
• Shaikh Salman Ebrahim Mohamed Ali Al Khalifa
• Abdulla Majid Al Naimi

External links

• Isa al-Murbati, the last Bahraini in Guantánamo, returns home (and a former Taliban minister returns to Afghanistan) Andy Worthington
• Bushehri,Shereen Bahrain Urged to Stand Up for Rights of Citizens in Guantanamo Arab News February 6, 2005
• Forced feeding at Guantanamo is now acknowledged, New York Times, 22 February 2006