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Gouled Hassan Dourad (
Somali:
Guuleed Xasan Duurad, born 1974) is a citizen of
Somalia and who is currently held in
extrajudicial detention in the
United States Guantánamo Bay detainment camps, in
Cuba.
His Guantana
Internee Security Number is 10023.
Early life
Gouled was born in
Mogadishu,
Somalia. When the
Somali Civil War erupted in 1991, his parents sent him to
Germany where he lived in a
refugee camp.
He traveled to
Sweden and gained asylum there in 1993.
In 1994 he attempted travel to the
United States but was turned back in
Iceland because of his fraudulent passport.
Alleged ties to terrorism
While in Sweden, Gouled attended a Somali mosque, whose imam arranged for Gouled and his friend, future AIAI bombmaker
Qasim Mohamed, to train in
Afghanistan before joining the Somali war effort.
Gouled trained at the
Khalden camp in weapons and explosives from January through October 1996, and at another camp in
Khost in
assassination techniques for several months.
By late 1996 he returned to Somalia.
Gouled became a member of AIAI in 1997 out of a commitment to support the Somali war against Ethiopia and to win the
Ogaden region of Ethiopia back to Somalia.
He fought against the Ethiopians in Ogaden off and on from 1997 to 2002 and trained AIAI fighters.
He allegedly became associated with al-Qaeda because its members were in Somalia and his AIAI cell supported the al-Qaeda.
Gouled was introduced to Abu Talha al-Sudani, who came to Mogadishu to hide following the Mombasa attacks in November 2003, in early 2003 by his AIAI cell leader.
Gouled was recruited to work for al-Sudani, in part, because he'd trained in Afghanistan: spoke
Arabic,
English, some
Swedish and
Somali, and had a high-school education.
According to the United States
Director of National Intelligence, Gouled was the head of the Mogadishu-based facilitation network of
al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI) members that supported
al-Qaeda members in
Somalia.
The allegations Goulad Hassan Dourad faced were:
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Determined to be an "enemy combatant"
The Department of Defense announced, on
August 9 2007 that all fourteen of the "high-value
detainees" who had been transferred to military custody in Guantanamo from custody in the CIA's
black sites, had been officially classified as "enemy combatants".
According to the Department of Defense this determination means the fourteen men can now face charges before
Guantanamo military commissions.
However the military commissions faced by
Omar Khadr and
Salim Ahmed Hamdan dropped all charges on jurisdictional grounds on
June 7 2007.
Colonel Peter Brownback and
Captain Keith J. Allred ruled that the
Military Commissions Act only authorized the trial of "
unlawful enemy combatants", while the Combatant Status Review Tribunals had merely determined the captives to be "enemy combatants".
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