Ali Abdullah Ahmed

Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terror analysts estimated he was born in 1977, in Ibb, Yemen.

Ali Abdullah Ahmed, also known as Salah Ahmed al-Salami (Arabic: علي عبدالله احمد) (August 1, 1979 – June 10, 2006), was a citizen of Yemen who died whilst being held as an enemy combatant in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.

His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 693.

Ali Abdullah Ahmed was born in Yemen in 1979 and raised in a Muslim family.

At its height more than 100 detainees participated in this hunger strike in 2005.

The Department of Defense's position was that detainees did not have the right to refuse medical treatment and had the guards force feed them.

The Washington Post reported that Ahmed continued his hunger strike from late 2005 to May 2006.

A widespread hunger strike that began in late May 2005 or early June 2005 came to a negotiated end on July 28, 2005.

Detainees report the camp authorities had agreed to several key concessions but did not carry them out.

The detainees resumed the hunger strike on August 8, 2005.

Initially the DOD reported that none of the three dead men had legal representation.

Ali Abdullah Ahmed died in custody on June 10, 2006.

His death was announced by the Department of Defense as a suicide, on the same day that the deaths of two other detainees were said to be suicides.

Their deaths received wide coverage in the media.

Approximately three dozen detainees were participating in the hunger strike in January 2006, when the DOD instituted a new measure—the use of "restraint chairs".

Detainees were strapped immobile in the restraint chairs during the force-feeding, and for a period of time afterward.

DOD said this was done to ensure that the detainees could not induce vomiting and void the force-fed formula before digestion began.

Detainees claimed that the force-feeding caused extremely painful cramps, and that they restrained for hours, even if they soiled themselves.

DOD said their policy authorized restraining the detainees immobile for only 45 minutes following the end of the force-feeding.

All but four of the hunger strikers ended their hunger strike a few days after the initiation of the use of the restraint chair in January 2006.

On June 10, 2006, DOD reported that three Guantanamo detainees: two Saudis and one Yemeni, had committed suicide.

DOD spokesmen refrained from releasing the names of the dead men.

The next day, June 11, 2006, Saudi Arabian authorities released the names of the two Saudi men.

Later that day, the DOD released the names of all three men.

The dead Yemeni man was identified by DOD for the first time as Ali Abdullah Ahmed.

The dead Saudis were identified as Yasser Talal Al Zahrani and Mani Shaman Turki al-Habardi Al-Utaybi.

At the time, The Washington Post'' reported that DOD alleged Ahmed: "was a mid- to high-level al-Qaeda operative who had key ties to principal facilitators and senior members of the group.'"—and that "Throughout his time in Guantanamo, he had been non-compliant and hostile to the guard force".

In 2006, the Post said that Ahmed was a "long-term hunger striker."There were several widespread hunger strikes during 2005.

On June 14, 2006, DOD acknowledged that Ahmed had legal representation.

But they had not yet given his lawyers the security clearance required to visit with him.

Ali Abdullah Ahmed and Yasser Talal Al Zahrani had previously been listed on DOD's two official lists of detainees.

The other Saudi was previously recorded as either

"Maniy bin Shaman al-Otaibi" or "Mani bin Shaman bin Turki al Habradi", and had not appeared on either official list.

On June 14, 2006, Ali Abdullah Ahmed's father claimed that, as a Muslim, his son would not have committed suicide.

The father alleged that his son was "assassinated by American soldiers".

In 2008, however, The Washington Post received thousands of pages of documents related to a longstanding FOIA request, and related to the NCIS report published in August.

The journalist Josh White found the following about Ahmed in a "previously secret" document:

"Although many of the individuals apprehended during the raid have strong connections to al Qaeda, there is no credible information to suggest Ahmed received terrorist related training or is a member of the al Qaeda network."

His younger brother, Muhammaed Yasir Ahmed Taher, also known as Yasir al-Simli, was also held in Guantanamo, until 2009.

He was killed by a missile, launched from a drone, on March 2, 2017.