Official Account
The Washington Post reported that the DoD allege Ahmed: "was a mid- to high-level al-Qaida operative who had key ties to principal facilitators and senior members of the group." -- and that "Throughout his time in Guantanamo, he had been non-compliant and hostile to the guard force,"
The Washington Post reports that Ahmed was a "long-term hunger striker." -- There were several widespread hunger strikes during 2005. A widespread hunger strike that began in late May 2005 or early June 2005 came to a negotiated end on July 28, 2005. Detainees report the camp authorities had agreed to several key concessions, and that they were forced to resume the hunger strike on August 8, 2006.
Initially the DoD reported that none of the three dead men had legal representation. However, on June 14, 2006 the DoD had to acknowledge that Ahmed did have legal representation. But they had yet to give his lawyers the clearance required to visit with him.
Mani Al-Utaybi's legal team reported that they had waited over nine months for the DoD to grant them clearance to see Al-Utaybi. They said that the DoD would not allow them to correspond with Al-Utaybi, because they claimed his legal team did not know the DoD's official spelling of Al-Utaybi's name.
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