Mahmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef

Mahmmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef is a citizen of Yemen, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
In 2004, the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that Guantanamo captives were entitled to being informed of the allegations justifying their detention, and were entitled to try to refute them.
Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants
Following the Supreme Court's ruling the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants.
Scholars at the Brookings Institution, led by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still
held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain
common allegations:
* Mahmmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef was listed as one of the captives who the military alleges were members of either al Qaeda or the Taliban and associated with the other group.
His 11-page Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on December 28, 2007.
It was signed by camp commandant Rear Admiral Mark H. Buzby. He recommended continued detention.
Transfer to the USA
On August 31, 2009, Corrections One, a trade journal for the prison industry, speculated that
"Omar Khalifa Mohammed Abu Bakr" was one of ten captives they speculated might be moved to a maximum security prison in Standish, Michigan.
Transfer to Ghana
Spencer Ackerman, writing in The Guardian, reported that the US had been negotiating for a year with Ghana, for his release. Both men were freed upon arrival.
Ghana's foreign ministry initially announced that the released detainees would stay in the country for two years. Their arrival stirred controversy.

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