Khalid al-'Unaizi

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According to a Human Rights Watch report a Saudi named Khalid al-'Uaizi, and two other Saudis, were repatriated, from extrajudicial (WP) detention in the United States (WP) Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, to Saudi custody on July 20, 2005. This name does not match any on the official list of the names of all detainees held in military custody at Guantanamo, released on May 15, 2006.

Once the list of detainees that were released was made official by the Department of 'Defense', it became apparent that Unaizi's place and particulars on the list was actually held, on the DoD list, by Khalid Sulayman Jaydh Al Hubayshi (WP)

Whether Human Rights Watch got it wrong, or The DoD information they were working from was wrong, or some other explanation is the cause, is not known.

As of May 26, 2006 the three remained held, without charge, in Riyadh's al-Ha'ir prison.

Hubayshi was released as part of a Saudi program especially for the detainees, with great propaganda value for those that support the detentions, but all too late and little for those who had to endure them, and which does absolutely nothing for those remaining in incarceration. The Christian Science Monitor and other news sources described the program as "Cash and Counseling".

See also

• Khalid Sulayman Jaydh Al Hubayshi (WP)
• Salih al-Awshan
• Mishal Awad Sayaf Alhabri

References

• Faiza Saleh Ambah (2008-03-24). "Out of Guantanamo and Bitter Toward Bin Laden". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/23/AR2008032301594.html. Retrieved 2009-12-18. mirror
• Caryle Murphy (2010-09-11). "In Saudi Arabia, re-educating terrorists held at Gitmo". Global Post. Archived from the original on 2011-02-23. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.globalpost.com%2Fdispatch%2Fsaudi-arabia%2F100910%2Fsaudi-arabia-re-educating-terrorists-held-at-gitmo%3Fpage%3Dfull&date=2011-02-23. "Khalid Al Hubayshi, one of the first Saudis released from Guantanamo, said that he and his family were taken to the home of Prince Muhammad. There, he recalled, the prince told him and two other former Guantanamo inmates: “You are our people and we trust you ... and we hope you learn from the past. We are going to take care of you. You are going to get married. We are going to get you back to your jobs. Don’t worry about anything.”"
• Sonia Verma (2008-09-11). "Terrorists 'cured' with cash, cars and counselling". Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 2011-02-23. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theglobeandmail.com%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Farticle708655.ece&date=2011-02-23. "Mr. Al Hubayshi, now 33, is one of the first graduates of a controversial Saudi program designed to rehabilitate hard-core militants who have begun to trickle back home after serving time in U.S. detention."
• Faiza Saleh Ambah (2008-03-25). "From terror camps to day job; Saudi man fought with terrorists but now supports the political process". Hamilton Spectator. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/1450901641.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+25,+2008&author=Faiza+Saleh+Ambah&pub=The+Spectator&desc=From+terror+camps+to+day+job;+Saudi+man+fought+with+terrorists+but+now+supports+the+political+process&pqatl=google. "U.S. government documents and interviews with Hubayshi, now living in Saudi Arabia and working at a utilities company, provide a rare look into the mind of a man who trained for religious warfare, never fought in combat and now says he believes in the political process. But "if the government had not helped me marry and get my job back," he said, "I might be in Iraq now.""
• Carlyle Murphy (2008-08-21). "Saudis use cash and counseling to fight terrorism". Christian Science Monitor. Archived from the original on 2011-02-23. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.csmonitor.com%2FWorld%2FMiddle-East%2F2008%2F0821%2Fp01s01-wome.html&date=2011-02-23. "The young Saudi's break with militant jihadi ideology was not as swift. It started in Guantánamo, but ripened only after he returned home in 2005 to an unexpected reception. Mr. Hubayshi was treated to a mix of forgiveness, theological reeducation, psychological counseling, prison time, and cash."
• Andy Worthington (2008-04-28). ""They All Knew He Was Crazy": The Strange Case of Gitmo Prisoner Abu Zubaydah". Alternet. Archived from the original on 2011-02-23. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alternet.org%2Frights%2F83409%2F%3Fpage%3Dentire&date=2011-02-23. "He explained that, while attempting to return home in 1999, he had been arrested and imprisoned by the Pakistanis, who confiscated his passport, and that he had then returned to his job at a utilities company in Saudi Arabia on a false passport. His return to Afghanistan in 2001 came about when he discovered that he was wanted for questioning by the Saudi authorities, and it was at the camp near Jalalabad, where he "adept at making remote-controlled explosive devices triggered by cellphones and light switches," that he attracted the attention of al-Qaeda."
• Caryle Murphy (2008-08-26). "A creative release for militant minds". The National. Archived from the original on 2011-02-23. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.ae%2Fnews%2Fworldwide%2Fmiddle-east%2Fa-creative-release-for-militant-minds&date=2011-02-23. "They also have individual sessions with Islamic religious scholars. "A religious adviser Â… speaks with you, and asks you what you believe and they discuss with you on what basis you believe in that, and they try to change your mind by convincing," says Khalid al Hubayshi, who was released from Guantanamo in 2005. "It's helped so many guys in the prison, they like it." Prisoners can request a sheikh to talk with, and request a different one if they do not like the one they are first assigned, Mr Hubayshi says."