Abdel Malik al Rahabi

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Abdel Malik al Rahabi
Abd al-Malik Abd al-Wahab identity portrait
Abd al-Malik Abd al-Wahab identity portrait, showing him wearing the white uniform issued to compliant individuals.
Nationality Yemen
Known for held for over 12 years without charge

Abdel Malik al-Rahabi is a citizen of Yemen who is who has been held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba, since 2002.[1] The United States has never charged him with a crime. In 2009 United States President Barack Obama authorized the creation of the Guantanamo Review Task Force, to conduct new reviews of the the status of individuals held in Guantanamo. Rahabi's 2009 review recommended that while the evidence necessary to charge him with a crime did not exist, he nevertheless might pose a meaningful risk to the USA, if he were released, and that he should therefore continue to be held without charge.[2] he had ever been in

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  1. "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006". United States Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf. Retrieved 2006-05-15.  16x16px Works related to List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006 at Wikisource
  2. David Dishneau (2014-01-28). "US: detained Yemeni may rejoin al Qaida if freed". Arlington, Virginia: Associated Press. Archived from the original on 2014-01-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20140128183259/http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GUANTANAMO_PRISONER_REVIEWS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT.