Yasser Talal Al Zahrani - Death

Death

Main article: Guantanamo Bay murder accusations See also: Guantanamo suicide attempts

On June 10, 2006 the DoD reported that three Guantanamo detainees, two Saudis, and one Yemeni committed suicide. DoD spokesmen refrained from releasing the dead men's identities.

On June 11, 2006 Saudi authorities released the names of the two Saudi men. One was identified as Al Zahrani.

The other Saudi was identified as both Maniy bin Shaman al-Otaibi and Mani bin Shaman bin Turki al Habradi. Neither of these names is on either of the two official lists of Guantanamo names the DoD has released.

In February 2009 Staff Sergeant Joe Hickman, a U.S. Army Non Commissioned Officer stationed in Guantanamo Bay, and on duty June 9, 2006, Reported to the Justice Department that he did not think the deaths were suicides from what he and other soldiers had witnessed.

On January 18, 2010, Scott Horton of Harper’s Magazine published a story denouncing al-Salami's, Al-Utaybi' and Al-Zahrani's deaths as accidental manslaughter during a torture session, and the official account as a cover-up.

A report, Death in Camp Delta, was published by the Center for Policy & Research of Seton Hall University School of Law, under the supervision of its director, Professor Mark Denbeaux, denouncing numerous inconsistencies in the official accounts of these deaths.

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