Salah Abdul Rasool Al Blooshi Salah Abdul Rasool Al Blooshi ( Arabic : صلاح عبد الرسول البلوشي ) is a Bahraini , who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camp s , in Cuba . On May 15 , 2006 the U . S . Department of Defense complied with a court order and released a list of the identities of the Guantaanamo detainees . The DoD calls him Salah Abdul Rasul Ali Abdul Rahman Al Balushi . His Guantanamo Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 227 . The DoD reports that he was born on February 12 , 1981 , in Muharraq , Bahrain . Mr Al Bloushi was reportedly arrested by Pakistani authorities after crossing over from Afghanistan in December 2001 and handed over to the US military . Al Blooshi is represented by Joshua Colangelo - Bryan , Esq . The campaign to free the detainee is being led by Bahraini MP Mohammed Khalid . Combatant Status Review Tribunal . Initially the Bush Presidency asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives from the war on terror . This policy was challenged before the Judicial branch . Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct competent tribunal s to determine whether captives are , or are not , entitled to the protections of prisoner of war status . Subsequently the Department of Defense instituted the Combatant Status Review Tribunal s . The Tribunals , however , were not authorized to determine whether the captives were " lawful combatants " — rather they were merely empowered to make a recommendation as to whether the captive had previously been correctly determined to match the Bush Presidency ' s definition of an enemy combatant . Summary of Evidence memo . A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Salah Abdul Rasul Ali Abdul Rahman Al Balushi ' s Combatant Status Review Tribunal , on 23 September 2004 . The memo listed the following allegations against him : Transcript . There is no record that captive 227 participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal . Habeas corpus . A writ of habeas corpus , Salah Abdul Rasul Ali Abdul Rahman Al Balushi v . George W . Bush , was submitted on captive 227 ' s behalf . In response , on 12 October 2004 the Department of Defense released 16 pages of unclassified documents related to his Combatant Status Review Tribunal . The Legal Advisor ' s declaration was drafted by Commander James R . Crisfield Jr . , a JAG officer . His enemy combatant status was confirmed by Tribunal panel 6 on 28 September 2004 . The Detainee election form prepared by his Personal Representative on 27 September 2004 stated : Administrative Review Board hearing . Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as " enemy combatants " were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings . The Administrative Review Boards were not authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status , nor were they authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an " enemy combatant " . They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States , because they continued to pose a threat , or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country , or whether they could be set free . First annual Administrative Review Board . A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Salah Abdul Rasul Ali Abdul Al Balushi ' s first annual Administrative Review Board , on 28 January 2005 . The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention . " The following primary factors favor continued detention " " The following primary factors favor release or transfer " Letter from Mark S . Sullivan . The Department of Defense did not publish the transcript from captive 227 ' s Board hearing . It did publish a redacted version of a two - page letter from Mark S . Sullivan , one of the lawyers helping him access the US justice system , dated January 19 , 2005 , entitled : " " Administrative Review Board Submission for Salah Abdul Rasul Al Bloushi , ISN # 227 . " They also published an unsigned note . Sullivan ' s letter stated , in part : The unsigned note said : Second annual Administrative Review Board . The " Gulf Daily News " reported , on July 2 , 2006 , that Colangelo - Bryan summarized the allegations against al Blooshi from his second Administrative Review Board . Colangelo - Bryan asked how , even if the allegations were true , they showed that Al Blooshi had ever represented a threat to the USA . Summary of Evidence . In September 2007 the DoD released a Summary of Evidence memo prepared for Salah Abdul Rasul Ali Abdul Rahman Al Balushi ' s second annual Administrative Review Board , on 30 January 2006 . The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention . " The following primary factors favor continued detention " " The following primary factors favor release or transfer " Board recommendations . In early September 2007 the Department of Defense released two heavily redacted memos , from his Board , to Gordon R . England , the Designated Civilian Official . The Board ' s recommendation was unanimous The Board ' s recommendation was redacted . England authorized his transfer on 15 June 2006 . His Board concluded that he " " . . . continues to be a threat to the United States and its allies . " Al Blooshi ' s last interrogation . On July 23 , 2006 Colangelo - Bryan described Al Blooshi ' s last interrogation . He said that the camp authorities acknowledge that 75 % of the detainees are no longer interrogated . He estimated that even fewer detainees are currently being interrogated than US spokesment acknowledged . Al Blooshi has not been interrogated at all in 2006 . Colangelo - Bryan said that during his last interrogation Al Blooshi was asked about his activities in the war in Bosnia in 1995 . Release . Salah has been released . On Thursday August 23 , 2007 the " Gulf Daily News " reported that Bahraini Member of Parliament Mohammed Khalid had called for the Bahrain government to provide financial compensation to the released men .