Mohammad Al Rahman Al Shumrani

Mohammad Al Rahman Al Shumrani (born February 27, 1975, in Riyadh) is a citizen of Saudi Arabia who was held in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba. In 2004, the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that Guantanamo captives were entitled to being informed of the allegations justifying their detention, and were entitled to try to refute them.

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 was justified by certain common allegations: His Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment, dated October 24, 2008, called him Muhammad Abd al-Rahman al-Shumrant. His assessment was twelve pages long and was signed by camp commandant Rear Admiral David M. Thomas Jr. He recommended continued detention.

Guantanamo Review Task Force

On January 21, 2009, the day he was inaugurated, United States President Barack Obama issued three Executive orders related to the detention of individuals in Guantanamo. He established a task force to re-review the status of all the remaining captives. Where the OARDEC officials reviewing the status of the captives were all "field grade" officers in the US military (Commanders, naval Captains, Lieutenant Colonels and Colonels) the officials seconded to the task force were drawn from not only the Department of Defense, but also from five other agencies, including the Departments of State, Justice, Homeland Security. President Obama gave the task force a year, it recommended the release of 55 individuals who were assessed as not representing a serious threat. The task force recommended several dozen other individuals should face war crime charges before a Guantanamo military commission. A third group was composed of individuals who could not be charged with a crime, because there was no evidence they committed a crime, but who were, nevertheless, considered too dangerous to release.

Al-Shumrani was a listed in the third group.