Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmad

Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmad is a citizen of Yemen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.
* He was named Majid Abdu Ahmed on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his first annual Administrative Review Board, on November 13, 2005.
* He was named Majid M Abdu Ahmed on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his second annual Administrative Review Board, on September 26, 2006.
Official status reviews
Originally the Bush Presidency asserted that captives apprehended in the "war on terror" were not covered by the Geneva Conventions, and could be held indefinitely, without charge, and without an open and transparent review of the justifications for their detention.
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:
* Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmad was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... are fighters for the Taliban."
A dossier of unclassified documents from his tribunal was released in 2005.
Formerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment
On April 25, 2011, whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts.
His twelve-page Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on February 24, 2008.
It was signed by camp commandant Rear Admiral Mark H. Buzby.
He recommended continued detention.

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