Mahmud Salem Horan Mohammed Mutlak Al Ali | |
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Born | Doha, Syria | 5 May 1974
Detained at | Guantanamo |
ISN | 537 |
Status | Released to Germany in September 2010 |
Spouse | Married |
Children | 1 |
Mahmud Salem Horan Mohammed Mutlak Al Ali is a citizen of Syria, best known for the more than eight years he spent in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States.[1] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 537. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts report that Mahmud Salem Horan Mohammed Mutlak Al Ali was born on 5 May 1974, in Doha, Qatar. He and Palestinian Ohmed Ahmed Mahamoud Al Shurfa were released to Germany on 16 September 2010.[2][3]
The Pentagon reduced its Guantánamo prison camps census to 174 foreign captives on Thursday, announcing that it had sent two Arabs to resettlement in Germany.
Later on Thursday, a second former Guantanamo prisoner -- 36-year-old Mahmoud Salim al-Ali of Syria -- arrived in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in central-western Germany, an official with the state's Interior Ministry said. "According to our knowledge, he does not pose any threat," a spokesman said. "We haven't brought a sleeper into our country," he said, referring to the phenomenon of potential terrorists like the 9/11 cell that infiltrate society and appear to be normal residents before they are activated.