Mazin Salih Musaid al Awfi

Mazin Salih Musaid al Awfi
Born	August 4, 1979(1979-08-04) Medina, Saudi Arabia
Detained at	Guantanamo
Alternate name	Mazin Salih Musaid Alawfi
ISN	154
Charge(s)	No charge (extrajudicial detention)
Status	Repatriated to Saudi custody on on July 16, 2007; now on list of those who have since engaged in terrorism.
Occupation	traffic policeman

Casio F91W - an inexpensive quartz digital watch

Mazin Salih Musaid al Awfi is a Saudi Arabian citizen who was detained in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.^[1]

Musaid's name came to light after Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered the Department of Defense was to release documents from the Guantanamo detainees's Combatant Status Review Tribunals.^[1] The Detroit Free Press noted him as one of the detainees who was held, in part, because he was wearing a Casio F91W digital watch.

Combatant Status Review

Administrative Review Board hearing

Hearing room where Guantanamo captive's annual Administrative Review Board hearings convened for captives whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal had already determined they were an "enemy combatant".^[2]

Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings. The Administrative Review Boards were not authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they were not authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".

They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat—or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free.

Press reports

On July 12, 2006 the magazine Mother Jones provided excerpts from the transcripts of a selection of the Guantanamo detainees.^[3]

The article informed readers:

More than a dozen detainees were cited for owning cheap digital watches, particularly “the infamous Casio watch of the type used by Al Qaeda members for bomb detonators.”

The article quoted Musaid, and three other watch owners:

 :“Millions and millions of people have these types of Casio watches. If that is a crime, why doesn’t the United States arrest and sentence all the shops and people who own them? This is not a logical or reasonable piece of evidence.”

Repatriation

A captive Saudi officials identified as Mazin Al Oufi was repatriated to Saudi custody, with fifteen other men, on July 16, 2007.^[4]

Pentagon claim he had "returned to the fight"

On May 20, 2009, the New York Times, citing an unreleased Pentagon document, reported that Department of Defense officials claimed Mazin Salih Musaid al Awfi was one of 74 former Guantanatmo captives who "are engaged in terrorism or militant activity."^[5][6]

Main article: Lists of released Guantanamo prisoners who allegedly returned to battle

See also

• List of Guantanamo Bay detainees accused of possessing Casio watches

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Casios cited as evidence at Guantanamo, Detroit Free Press, March 10, 2006
2. ^ (Spc Timothy Book (Friday March 10, 2006). "Review process unprecedented". The Wire (JTF-GTMO). pp. 1. http://www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil/wire/WirePDF/v6/TheWire-v6-i049-10MAR2006.pdf#1. Retrieved 2007-10-12. 
3. ^ "Why Am I in Cuba?", [[Mother Jones (magazine)|]], July 12, 2006
4. ^ Raid Qusti (July 17, 2007). "More Gitmo Detainees Come Home". Arab News. http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=98598&d=17&m=7&y=2007&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom. Retrieved 2007-07-17. 
5. ^ Elizabeth Bumiller (2009-05-20). "Later Terror Link Cited for 1 in 7 Freed Detainees". New York Times. Archived from the original on 2009-05-21. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F05%2F21%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2F21gitmo.html%3Fref%3Damericas&date=2009-05-21. 
6. ^ "Recidivism". New York Times. 2009-05-20. Archived from the original on 2009-05-21. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fprojects.nytimes.com%2Fguantanamo%2Fdetainees%2Frecidivism&date=2009-05-21. 

External links

• Who are the 16 Saudis released from Guantánamo? Andy Worthington

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Name	Awfi, Mazin Salih Musaid Al
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Date of birth	August 4, 1979
Place of birth	Medina, Saudi Arabia
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