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{{Short description|Saudi former
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'''Ghassan Abdallah Ghazi al-Sharbi''' (born 28 December 1974) is a [[Saudi Arabia|Saudi]] citizen who was held in [[extrajudicial detention]] in the [[United States]] [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp]]s, in [[Cuba]].<ref name=DoDList2>
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Captured in [[Faisalabad]], [[Pakistan]] in March 2002, al-Sharbi was transferred to Guantanamo Bay later that year. In 2006, al-Sharbi told a military commission that he was a member of [[al-Qaeda]] and proud of his actions against the United States. Serious war crimes charges were dropped against him in October 2008, as it had been found they were based on evidence gained through [[torture]] of [[Abu Zubaydah]]. Al-Sharbi had a [[habeas corpus]] petition which his father had initiated on his behalf; when it reached the court in March 2009, al-Sharbi requested that it be dismissed. He did not want to pursue it.
==Early life and education==
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He was captured in March 2002 by Pakistani forces during a raid at [[Faisalabad]], [[Pakistan]]. He was held in [[Islamabad]] for two months before being turned over the United States forces.
When he was taken to [[Bagram Air Base]] for interrogation in June 2002, he was designated as prisoner #237. According to Chris Mackey, a lead interrogator at the base who wrote a chapter about the Saudi's interrogation in his 2004 memoir, al-Sharbi was designated as prisoner #237 at Bagram. He spoke fluent English and was considered "dismissive and aloof" by the interrogators.<ref name="mackey">Mackey, Chris and Greg Miller, "Prisoner 237," ''The Interrogators: Inside the Secret War Against al Qaeda'', New York: Hachette Digital, 2004</ref> He offered the names, addresses and phone numbers of several American classmates, professors and landlords who he said would vouch for his having done nothing wrong.
Al-Sharbi asked the interrogations chief whether he had read anything by [[T. E. Lawrence]], or ''From Beirut to Jerusalem.'' When the interrogator said that he graduated from [[Fordham University]], al-Sharbi said it was a "third-tier school". The interrogator later remarked that al-Sharbi wanted to assert superiority and had a "seeming preoccupation with death".<ref name="mackey" /> When it was arranged to transfer al-Shirbi to Guantanamo, he calmly told his interrogators that "after a while, the truth would blur for him and that he would just say whatever we wanted to hear just to have the solitude that would come from the end of our questioning".<ref name="mackey" />
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</ref> The report stated al-Sharbi was subjected to the [[Frequent flyer program (Guantanamo)|"frequent flyer"]] program from November 2003 to February 2004. It also said that such sleep deprivation was applied widely against numerous detainees, and guards had continued to use it for months after it was banned.<ref name=WashingtonPost20080807/>
[[Robert Rachlin]], one of his lawyers, stated:<blockquote>"We have to assume that the frequent flyer program, what its details were, was not designed to strengthen the comfort and resolve of the prisoner. Sleep deprivation is coercive. Of course it troubles me."
▲"We have to assume that the frequent flyer program, what its details were, was not designed to strengthen the comfort and resolve of the prisoner. Sleep deprivation is coercive. Of course it troubles me."}}<ref name=WashingtonPost20080807/>
The [[United States Supreme Court]] decision in ''[[Boumediene v. Bush]]'' (2008) overturned the Military Commissions Act of 2006, reaffirming detainee rights to use the ''[[habeas corpus]]'' process and to petition directly in the US courts. Many habeas corpus cases were reinstated, including that for al-Sharbi, which his father had initiated on his behalf.
==Dropped habeas petition==
On March 10, 2009, [[US District Court Judge]] [[Emmet G. Sullivan]] dismissed a [[habeas corpus]] petition filed on Al Sharbi's behalf.<ref name=WashingtonPost2009-03-10>
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==Release==
Al-Sharbi was transferred to Saudi Arabia on March 8, 2023.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Rosenberg |first=Carol |date=2023-03-08 |title=U.S. Military Repatriates Saudi Engineer Who From Guantánamo Bay |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/us/politics/saudi-guantanamo-bay-al-sharbi-transfer.html |access-date=2023-03-31 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
== See also ==
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