Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al-Darbi is a citizen of Saudi Arabia who was held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba from August 2002 to May 2018; in May 2018, he was transferred to Saudi Arabia's custody.
15 Facts About Ahmed al-Darbi
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Ahmed al-Darbi was the only detainee held at Guantanamo released during President Donald Trump's administration.
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Ahmed al-Darbi was arrested in Azerbaijan in June 2002, renditioned by United States forces to Afghanistan, where he was held at Bagram Air Force Base, and then transferred to Guantanamo in August that year.
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In February 2014, Ahmed al-Darbi pleaded guilty to terrorism charges before a military commission in relation to the October 2002 attack on the Limburg, a French oil tanker off Yemen.
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Ahmed al-Darbi is the sixth detainee to plead guilty to charges, in part to establish a sentence and date for leaving Guantanamo.
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The brother-in-law of Khalid al-Mihdhar, who participated in the September 11,2001 attacks in the United States, specifically that on the Pentagon, Ahmed al-Darbi was captured in Azerbaijan and arrested in June 2002.
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Ahmed al-Darbi was renditioned by United States forces into Afghanistan.
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Ahmed al-Darbi was charged, among other things, with the 2002 attack on the French oil tanker MV Limburg.
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Ahmed al-Darbi dismissed his military defense lawyer Brian Broyles, who described the refusal a "reasoned decision".
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Carol Rosenberg, writing in the Miami Herald, reported that Commission President James Pohl scheduled a hearing for May 27,2009, to rule on how much of the evidence against Ahmed al-Darbi was coerced through torture.
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At a hearing on September 23,2009, the Presiding Officer of the military commission to hear Ahmed al-Darbi's case agreed to a 60-day delay.
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On February 5,2014, Carol Rosenberg, writing in the Miami Herald, reported that the Pentagon had decided to "go forward" with new charges against Ahmed al-Darbi, prosecuting him for the bombing of a French oil tanker in 2002.
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Ahmed al-Darbi was classified as of April 19,2013, as among 71 individuals considered too dangerous to release but with insufficient evidence for charges.
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Obama promised that such detainees would start to receive reviews from a Periodic Review Board, though Ahmed al-Darbi eventually pleaded guilty.
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Ahmed al-Darbi pleaded guilty in February 2014 to the charges in the expectation of receiving a firm sentence and ultimately being released from Guantanamo, rather than continuing to be held in indefinite detention as he had been for the previous 12 years.