Hassan Bin 'Attash

Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 1456. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate that Bin Attash was born in 1985, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

As of March 26, 2010, Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash has been held at Guantanamo for five years six months.

Clive Stafford Smith said bin Attash was just seventeen when he was captured. Hassin is the brother of Waleed Mohammed bin Attash, who has also been described as an inmate in the CIA's network of secret prisons. Hassin too claims he spent time in the other prisons, including "the dark prison", prior to being detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Human Rights Concern
The circumstances of Hassan Bin Attash have triggered the attention of several human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, Reprieve and Human Rights Watch. According to their accounts Hassan Bin Attash was captured on September 10, 2002, spent time in the dark prison, spent four months in Jordan, where he was hung upside down, and beaten on the soles of his feet, which were then immersed in salt water. They assert that he underwent this kind of questioning until he was willing to sign anything. They claim that he wasn't interrogated about anything he himself had done, but rather about the activity of his older brother. They assert that his 70 year-old father underwent similar questioning. Bin Attash was flown to Guantanamo in March 2003.

The Boston Globe quoted Guantanamo spokesmen Lieutenant Commander Chito Peppler, who insisted, "US policy requires all detainees to be treated humanely," 

Peppler repeated the assertion that none of the captive's assertions of abuse were credible because al Qaeda trained operatives to lie about abuse.

Transportation to Guantanamo Bay
Human Rights group Reprieve reports that flight records show two captives named Al-Sharqawi and Hassan bin Attash were flown from Kabul in September 2002. The two men were flown aboard N379P, a plane suspected to be part of the CIA's ghost fleet. Flight records showed that the plane originally departed from Diego Garcia, stopped in Morocco, Portugal, then Kabul before landing in Guantanamo Bay.

Combatant Status Review
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for his tribunal. The memo accused him of the following:

First annual Administrative Review Board
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Hassan Mohammed Salih Bin Attash's first annual Administrative Review Board, on 31 October 2005. The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

The following primary factors favor continued detention

The following primary factors favor release or transfer

Transcript
There is no record that Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash participated in this Board hearing.

Second annual Administrative Review Board
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash's second annual Administrative Review Board, on 15 September 2006. He faced 17 "primary factors favoring continued detention" and 1 "primary factor favoring transfer or release".

The following primary factors favor continued detention

The following primary factors favor release or transfer

Third annual Administrative Review Board
A five page Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash's third annual Administrative Review Board, on October 31, 2007. He faced 32 "primary factors favoring continued detention" and 2 "primary factors favoring transfer or release".