Abdul Latif Nasir

Abdul Latif Nasir is a Moroccan man formerly held in administrative detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 244. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts report he was born on March 4, 1965, in Casablanca, Morocco. Abdul Latif Nasir and Sufyian Barhoumi tried to file emergency requests to be transferred from Guantanamo in the final days of Barack Obama's presidency.

Inconsistent identification Nasser was identified inconsistently on official Department of Defense documents: He was identified as Abdul Latif Nasir on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 29 November 2004, on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his first annual Administrative Review Board, on 21 November 2005, and on five official lists of captives' names. He was identified as Abdulatif Nasser on the Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for his second annual Administrative Review Board, on 17 October 2006.

Life in Guantanamo

Nasir was captured in Afghanistan in the fall of 2001 by fighters of the Northern Alliance. His attorneys claimed he was given to the US Military for a bounty. He was transferred to Guantanamo in 2002. In Guantanamo, he compiled a 2000 word Arabic to English, English to Arabic dictionary. In 2004 the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that Guantanamo captives were entitled to be informed of the allegations against them, and were entitled to challenge their detention.

Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants 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.

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 without charges was justified by evidence of common allegations:

Abdul Latif Nasir was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... traveled to Afghanistan for jihad." His 15-page Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on October 22, 2008. It was signed by camp commandant Rear Admiral David M. Thomas Jr. He recommended continued detention.

Guantanamo Joint Review Task Force

Carol Rosenberg, of the Miami Herald worked for years to get the Department of Defense to release its classification of the remaining captives.

Release

On July 19, 2021, he was released and repatriated to Morocco. He had been recommended for discharge since 2016. Nasser's family members in Casablanca pledged to support him by finding him work in his brother's swimming pool cleaning business, according to his lawyer Thomas Anthony Durkin. He was detained for 19 years and was never charged.