Sami Abdul Aziz Salim Allaithy Alkinani (born October 28, 1956) is an Egyptian professor who was held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
This includes any person who commits a belligerent act or has directly supported hostilities in aid of enemy armed forces.
[8] A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for the tribunal of each detainee, listing the allegations that supported their detention as an "enemy combatant".
The memo accused him of the following:[9][10] On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a seven-page summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
[11] The allegations, as read aloud during his Tribunal, differed markedly from those recorded on his Summary of Evidence memo: a The detainee is associated with Al Qaeda and is a Taliban fighter.
Sami al Laithy's weight was recorded just seven times—once in February 2002, then in March, April, May, June, September, October 2004, and finally in May 2005.
[16] In early October, American authorities announced that they had repatriated an Egyptian national back to his home country.
He continues to refute the claim and asserts that the loss was due to brutal treatment while in custody and that records are a forgery.