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.[3][6][7][8][9][10][11]
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.[12]
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.[13] In Guantanamo, he compiled a 2000 word Arabic to English, English to Arabic dictionary.[14]
Official status reviews
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.[15]
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
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:[19]
Abdul Latif Nasir was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... traveled to Afghanistan for jihad."[19]
Abdul Latif Nasir was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges that the following detainees stayed in Al Qaeda, Taliban or other guest- or safehouses."[19]
Abdul Latif Nasir was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... took military or terrorist training in Afghanistan."[19]
Abdul Latif Nasir was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... fought for the Taliban."[19]
Abdul Latif Nasir was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... were at Tora Bora."[19]
Abdul Latif Nasir was listed as one of the captives whose "names or aliases were found on material seized in raids on Al Qaeda safehouses and facilities."[19]
Abdul Latif Nasir was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges that the following detainees were captured under circumstances that strongly suggest belligerency."[19]
Abdul Latif Nasir was listed as one of the captives who was a member of the "al Qaeda leadership cadre".[19]
Abdul Latif Nasir 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."[19]
Formerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment
Carol Rosenberg, of the Miami Herald worked for years to get the Department of Defense to release its classification of the remaining captives.[23] In 2013 she was able to learn that Abdul Latif Nasser was one of 48 captives for whom there was no evidence for being held, and who officials nevertheless regarded as too potentially dangerous to release -- "forever prisoners".
Status during the Trump administration
President Barack Obama's administration pushed to transfer as many individuals from Guantanamo as possible during his last year.[24]The Washington Post reported that Abdul Latif Nasir was one of five individuals who had been cleared for release, but remained in Guantanamo when President Donald Trump was inaugurated.
On July 19, 2021, he was released and repatriated to Morocco.[26] 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.[27]
^"2 Guantanamo prisoners ask for release before Trump takes office". Business Standard. 2017-01-17. Retrieved 2017-01-17. Lawyers for two lower-level detainees from the wartime prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, are urgently asking a court to send them home before Trump takes office, specially after 10 such prisoners were released, media reports said.
^"Cleared Guantánamo Prisoner Files Last-Ditch Lawsuit Seeking Immediate Release". Reprieve. 2017-01-19. Abdul Latif Nasser, 51, was unanimously cleared by the Periodic Review Board for transfer home to Morocco on July 11, but remains imprisoned because the government's transfer process has been too slow. He now faces indefinite detention at the mercy of the Trump Administration.
^ ab"U.S. military reviews 'enemy combatant' use". USA Today. Associated Press. October 11, 2007. Archived from the original on October 23, 2007. 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.
^Carol Rosenberg (2013-06-17). "FOAI suit reveals Guantanamo's 'indefinite detainees'". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on 2014-11-21. Retrieved 2016-08-18. The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg, with the assistance of the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic at the Yale Law School, filed suit in federal court in Washington D.C., in March for the list under the Freedom of Information Act. The students, in collaboration with Washington attorney Jay Brown, represented Rosenberg in a lawsuit that specifically sought the names of the 46 surviving prisoners.
