[2][10][11][12] Security analysts puzzled over the release as camp commander General Geoffrey Miller on February 2, 2004, told the Red Cross that Tabarak was the sole remaining detainee they would not be allowed access to and the Moroccan authorities described him as the emir of Guantanamo.
The other three men, Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, Ibrahim al-Qosi, and Mohammed al-Qahtani were all to face charges before Guantanamo military commissions.
Ours, a Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent, testified during his interrogation of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, an alleged Osama bin Laden bodyguard and driver, that Hamdan revealed that Abdellah Tabarak had been in charge of Osama bin Laden's security detail.
"According to Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald St Ours "looked stunned" when Hamdan's Defense Counsel asked him if he knew that Tabarak had been released without charge.
[15] Andrew Cohen, a legal affairs commentator for CBS News, called the testimony that Tabarak had been released a "colossal embarrassment".