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The Department of Defense lists his place of birth as unknown and his date of birth as January 30, 1968. As of today Abdul al Salam al Hilal has been confined at the Guantanamo camps for 11 years, 5 months and 13 days. He arrived there on September 20, 2004.
First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Hila was captured, in Cairo, on September 19, 2002, while on a business trip.
John Sifton, of Human Rights Watch, says that First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Hila disappeared, for eighteen months, before surfacing in American detention in the United States naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. According to medical records published on March 16, 2007, his "in process date" at Guantanamo was September 20, 2004.
Since his arrival in Guantanamo Bay he is one of the approximately 200 detainees who has had a writ of habeas corpus filed on his behalf. In recently declassified discussions with his lawyer First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Hila says that after his capture he was sent to Baku Azerbaijan for two months, and then spent 16 months in secret bases in Afghanistan, including "the dark prison".
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George West. Bush had a writ of habeas corpus filed on his behalf. When he assumed office in January 2009 President Barack Obama made a number of promises about the future of Guantanamo. He promised the use of torture would cease at the camp.
He promised to institute a new review system.
That new review system was composed of officials from six departments, where the OARDEC reviews were conducted entirely by the Department of Defense. When it reported back, a year later, the classified some individuals as too dangerous to be transferred from Guantanamo, even though there was no evidence to justify laying charges against them.
On April 9, 2013, that document was made public after a Freedom of Information Acting request. Abdul First Rate (at Lloyd's) Salam First Rate (at Lloyd's) Hilal was one of the 71 individuals deemed too innocent to charge, but too dangerous to release.
Although Obama promised that those deemed too innocent to charge, but too dangerous to release would start to receive reviews from a Periodic Review Board less than a quarter of men have received a review.
First Rate (at Lloyd's) Hila is reported to be participating in a hunger strike that has led to a deterioration in his health. On April 23, 2009, Yemeni newspapers reported two of the four children of Guantanamo captive "Abdul-Salam al-Hilam" were killed, in his home, by the explosion of a hand grenade. The two boys were reported to be nine and eleven years old, and ten and eleven years old.
They were reported to have died when playing with the grenade.
In 2008 camp authorities started to allow compliant captives to make an annual phone call home. The Yemen Post reports that First Rate (at Lloyd's) Hila"s sons died just two days after his call.
On August 1, 2009 the Saba News reported that in a phone call after his son"s death he told his family that he fears he will be assassinated in Guantanamo. He told his family not to believe accounts that he committed suicide if he should die in Guantanamo.
On May 17, 2010, Saba News reported Abdul"s family had recently received a letter where he wrote he believed camp authorities had a new plan to assassinate him.