Yusif Khalil Abdallah Nur

Yusif Khalil Abdallah Nur is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.
Nur's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 73.
The Department of Defense reports that he was born on March 16, 1982, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Nur was repatriated without ever been charged on June 24, 2006.
==Identity==
A most wanted poster, from the Defense Intelligence Agency, asserts that a suspect named 
Abdul Rahman Abdallah Noor is a former Guantanamo captive.
However Abdul Rahman Abdallah Noor's name is not on the official list of all the Guantanamo captives.
 
According to the DIA his alias is Abd al-Rahman Bin Khalil Bin Abdallah Nur.
Both men are from Saudi Arabia, but Abdul Rahman Abdallah Noor date of birth is reported to have been January 2, 1980.
One of the factors offered to justify Yusif Khalil Abdallah Nur's continued detention was that he was named on a suspicious list.[ Summarized transcript (.pdf)], from Yusif Khalil Abdallah Nur's Administrative Review Board hearing - page 1
On the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his second annual review board in 2006 his name was transliterated as "Yusef K Abdullah".
 
== Combatant Status Review ==
===Testimony in response to the allegations===
The Department of Defense published a three-page summarize transcript.
Nur said he didn't travel to Afghanistan for jihad. He went there to be with his beloved, older brother.
Nur acknowledged calling on the Taliban to help him locate his brother. 
He added that if his brother had been serving in the Northern Alliance he would have called on them to help him locate his brother.
Nur acknowledged that his brother showed him how to use hand grenades. 
But he claimed that he did not use any weapons while he was in Afghanistan, not even taking a turn performing guard duty.He was considered too young to participate.
Nur acknowledged that he was familiar with the use of the Kalashnikov. 
Nur claimed that when the US bombing campaign began he and his brother were ordered to try to return to Saudi Arabia. 
But all the roads were blocked. So he and his brother stayed with his brother's group, until it retrated to Konduz.
Nur acknowledged surrendering at Mazari Sharif; being sent to the al-Jenki prison; and being wounded in the uprising. 
But he asserted he didn't participate in the uprising.
The second part of the first allegation of hostile activity was that Nur had manned a foxhole for five months. 
Nur's reply was:
:"Yes, I was with my brother on the front lines but being in charge for five months, that's the first time I ever heard of this. I was in charge? They never even let me do my guard turn so how could I be in charge?"
===Testimony in response to the Tribunal officer's questions===
In response to questions from the Tribunal officer's questions:
*Nur answered that his brother was also in the al-Jenki prison. But he never saw him after the uprising, and he didn't know what had happened to him.
*Nur had reached College, and spent his first two months in College, prior to traveling to Afghanistan.
*Nur's brother's name was Adjhar Rhaman . He is two or three years older than Nur.
*Nur learned to use the Kalashnikov on a previous trip to Afghanistan.
*Nur denied participating in the prison uprising. He said he was bound in restraints when the revolt began, and when he was injured.
*Nur said he was injured in the stomach during the uprising.
*Nur said that his brother had talked him into his first, one-month trip to Afghanistan, by criticizing his lifestyle, his lack of goals, and his lack of commitment to Islam.
*Nur denied believing in jihad.
*Nur said he traveled to Afghanistan legally on his Saudi passport, and that his brother had paid his travel expenses.
===First annual Administrative Review Board hearing===
A Summary of Evidence memo was drafted for his first
annual Administrative Review Board hearing in 2005.
The following primary factors favor continued detention
The following primary factors favor release or repatriation
====Transcript====
Nur chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.
The Department of Defense published a ten-page summarized transcript from the unclassified session of his hearing.
===Second annual Administrative Review Board hearing===
A four-page Summary of Evidence memo was drafted for his second
annual Administrative Review Board hearing in 2006.
The four page memo listed 
twenty-four
"primary factors favor[ing] continued detention" and 
eight
"primary factors favor[ing] release or transfer".
(U) The following primary factors favor continued detention
(U) The following primary factors favor release or transfer
==Repatriation==
On November 26, 2008 the Department of Defense published a list of the dates when captives were transferred from Guantanamo.
According to that list
he
was transferred on June 24, 2006.
Thirteen other men were repatriated with him.
==References==
==External links==
Category:Saudi Arabian extrajudicial prisoners of the United States
Category:Living people
Category:Guantanamo detainees known to have been released
Category:People from Mecca