[3] Independent counter-terrorism consultants at the SITE Institute assert a man identified as Abu Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi is actually Al Harbi.

[4] Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives from the war on terror.

Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct competent tribunals to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of prisoner of war status.

[10] According to the study entitled, No-hearing hearings, Al Harbi was an example of a captive who was arbitrarily denied the opportunity to present exculpatory documents to his Tribunal.

[13][14][15] Peter Taylor writing for the BBC News called the Saudis repatriated on November 9, 2007, with al-Harbi, "batch 10".

[4][17] Two of the Al-Qaida spokesmen appearing in the video identified themselves as former Guantanamo captives, and graduates of the Care rehabilitation center, a Saudi facility intended to deprogram former jihadists.

They just forgot all about the damage they have inflicted on the rest of our brothers who have been suffering for years in Guantanamo.On February 3, 2009, the Saudi government published a most wanted list that named 85 suspected terrorists.

[21] Robert Worth, reporting in The New York Times, wrote that fourteen Saudis, formerly held in Guantanamo, had fallen under suspicion of supporting terrorism following their release.

He identified "Abu Hareth Muhammad al-Awfi", an alias of al Harbis as on the list, with two of the three other men who appeared in the threatening video, and a third man.

He attributed his escape to join the jihadists because the abuse he suffered at the hands of the Americans was more powerful than the arguments offered in the Care rehabilitation program.

Thanks to God Almighty's generosity, I realised that and I made a final decision to return to Saudi Arabia.Taylor reported being skeptical of Mohammed al-Awfi's account of his escape to Yemen and his subsequent defection.