Ahmed al-Darbi

There he was held in the Bagram Collection Point, while it was still under control of Alpha Company of the 519th Military Intelligence Battalion.

Al-Darbi was born on January 9, 1975, in Taif, Saudi Arabia.

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, al-Darbi was captured in Azerbaijan and arrested in June 2002.

He was renditioned by United States forces into Afghanistan.

They were reported to have beat their captives, allegedly resulting in the deaths of two prisoners on December 4, 2001, and December 10, 2001.

Al-Darbi later identified Damien M. Corsetti, a soldier nicknamed "the King of Torture" by his fellow GIs, as one of his abusers.

Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al-Darbi (احمد محمد احمد هزاع الدربي) 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.

He was the only detainee held at Guantanamo released during President Donald Trump's administration.

He 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.

Al-Darbi was transported from Bagram to the detention center at Guantanamo Navy Base in August 2002.

He was charged, among other things, with the 2002 attack on the French oil tanker MV Limburg.

Charges included the following:

He was alleged to have:

While held at Guantanamo, from 2005 to 2006, Slahi wrote a memoir.

After ten years of legal struggle, Slahi's lawyers succeeded in getting the manuscript declassified after numerous redactions.

In May 2006, Department of Defense spokesmen said that al-Darbi would not be allowed to testify at Corsetti's court martial for the deaths of detainees under his control.

On December 21, 2007, charges against Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al-Darbi were referred to the convening authority for the Office of Military Commissions.

On December 21, 2007, charges against Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al-Darbi were referred to Susan Crawford, head of the Guantanamo military commissions, who approved them to continue to trial.

In April 2008, al-Darbi announced that he refused to participate in the Military Commission, as he believed it lacked legitimacy.

He dismissed his military defense lawyer Brian Broyles, who described the refusal a "reasoned decision".

According to the Associated Press, at a hearing in December 2008, al-Darbi had

"held up a photo of President Barack Obama as a sign of hope."

According to the Associated Press, al-Darbi wrote to his lawyer that Obama could: "earn back the legitimacy the United States has lost in the eyes of the world."

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 al-Darbi was coerced through torture.

At a hearing on September 23, 2009, the Presiding Officer of the military commission to hear al-Darbi's case agreed to a 60-day delay.

His lawyer Ramzi Kassem told reporters after the hearing that al-Darbi had written a brief note, addressed to President Obama, that he had hoped to read aloud at the hearing.

Kassem read the note aloud to reporters.

The Associated Press quoted passages from the note.

In 2009, US District Court Judge James Robertson had issued a special ruling, that Mohamedou Ould Slahi could no longer be interrogated.

Slahi had been subjected to months of well-documented torture.

The Associated Press reported that the new charges had first been proposed in 2012.

In February 2014, 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.

By the time of the attack, al-Darbi was already detained at Guantanamo but was later charged with being a principal in planning the attack.

He is the sixth detainee to plead guilty to charges, in part to establish a sentence and date for leaving Guantanamo.

On February 5, 2014, Carol Rosenberg, writing in the Miami Herald, reported that the Pentagon had decided to "go forward" with new charges against al-Darbi, prosecuting him for the bombing of a French oil tanker in 2002.

On July 30, 2015, Spencer Ackerman, reporting in The Guardian, described efforts by al-Darbi's prosecution team to acquire incriminating evidence.

They tried to persuade another detainee, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, to agree to be interrogated about al-Darbi.

Published in January 2015 as Guantanamo Diary, his memoir became an international bestseller.

He described suffering torture, including at Guantanamo.

After the publication of his memoir, camp authorities tried to cut off Slahi's contact with his lawyers.