Idris Ahmad ʽAbd al Qadir Idris
Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee
Idris Ahmed ʽAbd al Qader Idris is a citizen of Yemen, who was held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.
His detainee ID number was 035.
American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1979, in Rada, Yemen.
Idris was transferred to Oman on June 13, 2015, where the Government of Oman agreed to what the Department of Defense called "appropriate security measures".
He arrived on June 8, 2002, he was held in extrajudicial detention, and never faced criminal charges.
The Department of Defense never fully released its justification for holding Idris, but on April 25, 2011, the Guantanamo Bay files leak was published.
Background
According to Idris he graduated from high school in 1996, and then attended Sanaa University for two years.
After he dropped out, he worked for Yemen's Ministry of Agriculture.
Idris says an imam at the al-Khayr Mosque in Sanaa convinced him to travel to Afghanistan to teach the Quran in 1999.
Idris says he did travel to Afghanistan, and spent eight months teaching the Quran at the al Raham Mosque in Kandahar but denied ever taking any military training or participating in hostilities.
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