He was first recommended for release in 2006.[2]
He was transferred to Ghana with fellow YemeniMahmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef on January 7, 2016.[3] The pair were the first individuals to be transferred to a sub-Saharan nation of which they were not a citizen.
Official status reviews
Originally the BushPresidency asserted that captives apprehended in the "war on terror" were not covered by the Geneva Conventions, and could be held indefinitely, without charge, and without an open and transparent review of the justifications for their detention.[4]
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
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:[8]
Khalid Mohammed Salih Al Dhuby was listed as one of the "82 detainees made no statement to CSRT or ARB tribunals or made statements that do not bear materially on the military’s allegations against them."[8]
Formerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment
^ abc"'Gitmo 2 likely to stay in Ghana till end of contract'". Ghana Web. 2017-01-25. Archived from the original on 2017-05-05. Retrieved 2017-01-26. The two former detainees from Guantanamo Bay currently being hosted in Ghana, may continue to stay in the country until the two-year contract signed between the government of Ghana and the US expires.
^ ab"U.S. military reviews 'enemy combatant' use". USA Today. 2007-10-11. Archived from the original on 2007-10-23. Critics called it an overdue acknowledgment that the so-called Combatant Status Review Tribunals are unfairly geared toward labeling detainees the enemy, even when they pose little danger. Simply redoing the tribunals won't fix the problem, they said, because the system still allows coerced evidence and denies detainees legal representation.
^"Latest Gitmo detainee set free once considered high risk Al Qaeda recruiter". Fox News. 2016-01-11. Retrieved 2017-01-26. Al Dhuby, a 34 or 35-year-old citizen of Yemen, also was freed from Gitmo and transferred to Ghana on Jan. 6. He was assessed to be a "medium risk," and the Defense Department described him as a probable member of Al Qaeda who utilized the terrorist travel-network for access to Afghanistan and to receive militant training. Al Dhuby arrived at Gitmo on May 5, 2002.