Abd al Malik Abd al Wahab

Abd al Malik Abd al Wahab is a Yemeni citizen currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States government.
His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 037.
He was born somewhere between 1983 and 1984. Abd al Wahab was arrested in the winter of 2001/2002, apparently by Pakistani officials, and is accused of being a member of Al-Qaeda.
According to him he was working as a Qur'an teacher in Afghanistan shortly before the U.S. invasion.
Combatant Status Review Tribunal
Initially the Bush Presidency 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.
Al Wahab chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, though his attorneys were not allowed to participate.
The memo listed the following allegations against him:
Abdulmalik Abdulwahhab Al-Rahabi v. George W. Bush
Abd al Malik Abd al Wahab was one of 179 sets of habeas corpus documents the Department of Defense released in September 2007.
The set of documents was 133 pages long. The first 25 pages were OARDEC documents. The remaining pages were from a writ of habeas corpus submitted on his behalf by David H. Remes and Kenneth L. Wainstein
together with thirteen other men.
He was named Abdulmalik Abdulwahhab Al-Rahabi in the documents.
The other men's name were also spelled inconsistently with the spelling on the DoD's official lists.
The lawyer's provided biographical details about the fourteen men: Captive 37's description said:
: Petitioner Abdulmalik Abdulwahhab A1-Rahabi
*Petitioner Abdulmalik Abdulwabahab A1-Rahabi ("Al-Rahabi’~ is twenty-two years old, married and the father of a four-year old daughter. See Ex. E (Affidavit of ############### pgs. 2-3.
*Around September 2000, A1-Rahabi traveled with his wife to Pakistan in order to study the Koran. Id. at pgs 5-6. Their daughter was born while they were together in Pakistan. Id. at pg 6.
*In November 2001, his wife returned to Yemen. Id. pg. 7. A1-Rahabi intended to return as well, but he was arrested while in Pakistan. Id. His family learned from newspaper accounts that he was being detained in Guantanamo Bay. Id. at pg. 7.
*The family has received very limited correspondence from Al-Rahabi and heard nothing from him for a nine-month period before receiving a pair of censored, months-old letters.Id. at pg. 8.
Lawyer's notes
The Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas gathered references from the unclassified notes from the Guantanamo Bay attorneys that concerned Abd al-Malik al-Wahab.
They report that Mark Falkoff's notes recorded:
:"A group of soldiers sprayed Mr. al-Wahab with “disorienting gas,” burst in his cell, handcuffed him, pulled him out of his cell, and pushed and rubbed his head against concrete until he lost consciousness."
Current status
In 2004, when the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants,its mandate was both to run the Combatant Status Review Tribunals, and also to run annual Administrative Review Board hearings.
The Board hearings were authorized to determine whether captives, who remained classified as "enemy combatants", no longer represented a threat to the USA, and no longer held intelligence value. In that case the Boards were authorized to recommend "release or transfer".
The DoD released the transcripts and the Summary of Evidence memos from all Board hearings held in 2005 and 2006.
There is no record that Board hearings were convened to consider whether Abd al Malik Abd al Wahab should be released or transferred.
On 27 August 2007 The Yemen Observer published an article about David Remes had made to Guantanamo.
Remes is a lawyer for fifteen Yemeni captives in Guantanamo.
The article reports that, on this visit, he met with two cousins from Ibb, Yasin Qasem Muhammad Ismail and Abdul Malik Abdul Wahab Al Rahabi.
According to the article
Remes says that Abdul Malik is being held in solitary confinement in Camp Six.
According to the article Remes says that the captives are issued plastic blankets.

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