Hamidullah (Guantanamo Bay detainee 1119) Hamidullah (Guantanamo Bay detainee 1119) Hamidullah is a citizen of Afghanistan, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 1119. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate he was born in 1963, in Kabul, Afghanistan. He was transferred to the United Arab Emirates on August 15, 2016. A senior Taliban leader, also named Hamidullah, surrendered on 24 November 2001. According to a widely republished Associated Press article: He was identified inconsistently on official US Government documents. Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all
Guantanamo Bay detention camp or investigations; 30 detainees from Yemen were designated for "conditional detention" due to the poor security environment in Yemen; 126 detainees were approved for transfer; 48 detainees were determined "too dangerous to transfer but not feasible for prosecution". On 6 January 2011, President Obama signed the 2011 Defense Authorization Bill, which, in part, placed restrictions on the transfer of Guantanamo prisoners to the mainland or to foreign countries, thus impeding the closure of the facility. In February 2011, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that Guantanamo Bay was unlikely to be closed, due to opposition in the Congress. Congress