page_title: Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab Al Rahabi
section_title: Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants
hierarchical_section_title: Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab Al Rahabi / Official status reviews / Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants
context_page_description: Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab al Rahabi is a citizen of Yemen who was held in extrajudicial detention by the United States from December 2001 to June 22, 2016.
  He was one of the first twenty captives transferred to the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba, on January 11, 2002, and was held there until he was transferred to Montenegro, which granted him political asylum.
  One of the allegations US intelligence analysts used to justify his detention was that he was captured with a group of thirty Osama bin Laden bodyguards. Historian Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, has criticized this allegation as it required taking at face value the denunciations of captives who lacked credibility.
  Al Rahabi was a married man when he was captured. His wife had just given birth to a daughter. Al Rahabi was one of the camp's most determined hunger strikers.
context_section_description: Following the Supreme Court's ruling the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants.
  Scholars at the Brookings Institution, led by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations:
  Abd Al Malik Abd Al Wahab  was listed as one of the captives who the military alleges were members of either al Qaeda or the Taliban and associated with the other group.
  Abd Al Malik Abd Al Wahab  was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... took military or terrorist training in Afghanistan."
  Abd Al Malik Abd Al Wahab  was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... served on Osama Bin Laden's security detail."
  Abd Al Malik Abd Al Wahab  was listed as one of the captives who was an "al Qaeda operative".
  Abd Al Malik Abd Al Wahab  was listed as one of the "34 [captives] admit to some lesser measure of affiliation—like staying in Taliban or Al Qaeda guesthouses or spending time at one of their training camps."
  Abd Al Malik Abd Al Wahab was listed as one of the captives who had admitted "some form of associational conduct."
caption: Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a 3x5 meter trailer where the captive sat with his hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor.[16][17]
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