Abdulla Majid Al Naimi

Inconsistent identification

Abdulla Majid Al Naimi was identified inconsistently on official Department of Defense documents:

Press reports transliterate his name as "Abdullah Al Nuaimi".

Witness statements

The documents the Department of Defense released include two statements, both dated November 11, 2004.

One statement was from Mohammed Salman Al-Khalifa, a cousin of Salman Al Khalifa, a member of the Bahrain royal family. It states since Abdullah Al Noaimi was a childhood friend of Salman Al Khalifa he was asked to travel to Pakistan and Afghanistan to look for him, when he went missing, in August 2001.

The other statement is from Mohamad Suleiman Alkaleifa, a childhood friend who testified to his good character, and lack of interest in politics.

If his Board considered these witness statements then it was redacted from their recommendations.

Abdullah AL Noaimi v. George Walker Bush

A writ of habeas corpus was submitted on Abdullah Al Noaimi's behalf. The Department of Defense released a dossier of 24 pages of documents arising from his CSR Tribunal on 9 December 2004.

Administrative Review Board

Detainees whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal labeled them "enemy combatants" were scheduled for annual Administrative Review Board hearings. These hearings were designed to assess the threat a detainee might pose if released or transferred, and whether there were other factors that warranted his continued detention.

Summary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Abdullah Al Noaimi's Administrative Review Board, on July 1, 2005. The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

There is no record that Al Noaimi participated in his Board hearing.

Board recommendations

In early September 2007, the Department of Defense released two heavily redacted memos, from his Board, to Gordon J. England, the Designated Civilian Official. The Board's recommendation was unanimous The Board's recommendation was redacted. England authorized his transfer on 4 October 2005.

Release

Represented by attorney Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, al-Naimi was one of three Bahraini detainees released and sent back to Bahrain in November 2005.

Bahraini Member of Parliament Mohammed Khalid had called for the Bahrain government to provide financial compensation to the released men.

Abdulla Al Noaimi lived for three years only after Guantanamo bay as a free man, he enrolled immediately in January 2006 in NYIT, and graduated in 2008. He was given a Bachelor degree in Business Administration with a GPA of 3.92 of 4.00. He was in the board of Honor of NYIT. He also continued doing his MBA which was ruined by his arrest in saudi.Abdulla in that three years including graduating, started his own business, as Electrical Contractor. In the first year of business he could get contracts of six figures on his office desk.Abdulla in that three years, could come up with an invention that reduces the supermarkets crowd at the point of sale. He register it in the GCC patent office, but was given a later wrong registration time. Which might give some people the opportunity to re-register the invention few hours before the time given to him, after going through his ideas.Abdulla Got married after two months of his release and before his arrest in Saudi he had two sons.

Comments on the June 10, 2006 suicides

The deaths of three detainees were announced on June 10, 2006. Al Naimi knew the three men, and commented on their deaths on June 25, 2006. Al Naimi said that Mani Al-Utaybi and Ali Abdullah Ahmed were captured while studying in Pakistan. He said that they were interrogated for only a brief time after their arrival in Guantanamo, and their interrogators had told them they were not regarded as a threat, and that they could expect to be released.

Al Naimi said that the third dead man, Yasser Talal Al Zahrani, was only 16 when he was captured. According to Al Naimi Al Zahrani should have been treated as a minor.

Saudi arrest

The Gulf Daily News reports that he was arrested in Saudi Arabia in late October 2008. Bahraini Member of Parliament Mohammed Khalid expressed dismay at the arrest of a third former Guantanamo captive by Saudi authorities, and said that the Saudis had not offered a formal justification for his arrest.

In late November 2008 another Bahraini in extrajudicial detention in Saudi Arabia, Khalil Janahi, was reported to have been repatriated. Mohammed Janahi described Khalid Janahi's repatriation as a hopeful development for Al Naimi, and two other Bahrainis in extrajudicial detention in Saudi Arabia -- Abdulraheem Al Murbati, and Hassan Al Yabis. Al Naimi and the other men remained held by Saudi Arabia in April 2009.

On August 2, 2010, Newsblaze reported on an incident where Bahraini police had been recorded beating a Saudi citizen. Newsblaze speculated that Saudi officials had not complained about the incident because Saudi Arabia did not want to explain its detention of Naomi, Khalil Janahi, and Abdurrahim Al Murbati.

Abdulla Al Noaimi was not allowed to have an attorney in Saudi, nor have the ability to contact anyone of his family. He was interrogated in isolation continuously for four months days and nights. Some of the sessions would start from 7 pm till the other day 4 pm and continue again at night.The interrogator typed a lot of papers then came to Abdulla in the four months stress, the interrogator read the papers and forced Abdulla to write it. Abdulla Al Noaimi was told by the Interrogators that they need nothing from him anymore, they will send him back to Bahrain, but he need to finish his identity procedure in the court. He was taken to the court and the judge showed him a picture of himself and asked him if that's him. Abdulla answered yes. The judge told him sign here and stamp your thumb. Abdulla knew then from the officers and prisoners that the judge was supposed to read to him his saying, ask him if it's true, ask him if he was forced to write it or it's by his own will.Abdulla wasn't sent back to Bahrain after the four-month interrogation, instead was taken from Riyadh to Dammam prison. He was interrogated by the same interrogator who came all the way from Riyadh. Abdulla asked him "you made me sign on thing not true" the interrogator laughed and said "I Know, it doesn't matter that's in the past"Abdulla wasn't taken to trial for 6 years. After 6 years Abdulla so a judge for the first time with the beginning of the Arab spring. Abdulla was not prosecuted till the 8th year. One of the prisoners who was taken to the court asked the secretary of the judge of Abdulla about the court date. The secretary said the case was dropped by the supreme court because the judge did not accept to judge that Abdulla is a Bahraini citizen and his country should judge him.Abdulla was sent to Bahrain in 21 April 2016, with no prosecution. The Saudi intelligence made him sign on a paper that says he should stay in Bahrain prison till 23 July 2017.

Pentagon claim he had "returned to the fight"

The Claim that Abdulla Majed Al Noaimi returned to the fight is False, Abdulla did not get involved in any fight.

On May 20, 2009, the New York Times, citing an unreleased Pentagon document, reported that Department of Defense officials claimed Abdullah al Noaimi was one of 74 former Guantanatmo captives who "are engaged in terrorism or militant activity."