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S E C R E T MANAMA 000089 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR NEA/ARPI, S/WCI 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/23/2016 
TAGS: KAWC PREL PTER ASEC OPDC BA OFFICIALS CTR BILAT
SUBJECT: DELIVERY OF DIPNOTE ON BAHRAINI DETAINEES AT GTMO 
 
REF: A. STATE 10487 
     ¶B. MANAMA 0063 
     ¶C. 05 MANAMA 1886 
 
Classified by DCM Susan L. Ziadeh for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 
 
¶1.  (S) The Ambassador January 21 delivered Ref A diplomatic 
note concerning the health, treatment, and status of the 
three remaining Bahraini detainees at Guantanamo to Foreign 
Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa in a meeting 
covering several issues (septels).  Shaikh Khalid asked about 
the timing of the next Administrative Review Board (ARB) 
sessions for the three.  He emphasized that Bahrain had done 
its part to keep the three detainees who returned to Bahrain 
in November under control by monitoring their communications, 
including phone calls, and restricting their travel and 
contacts.  A friend of one of the returnees had begun to talk 
to him about jihad, and the security services picked up the 
friend, told him he would be prosecuted if he continued this 
sort of talk, and the man stopped.  Shaikh Khalid said that 
former detainee Abdulla Al Noaimi had married since his 
return and the Al Khalifa family was looking for a bride for 
Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa. 
 
¶2.  (S) Shaikh Khalid pledged that if the remaining three 
detainees returned to Bahrain, the government would maintain 
the same sort of continuous monitoring on them.  The GOB is 
being blamed for not doing enough and is coming under 
pressure from the media, lawyers, and families to gain the 
detainees' return.  He requested that the U.S. authorities 
not wait a full year before doing ARBs for Al Dossari, Al 
Balushi, and Al Murbati, and hold the sessions as soon as 
possible.  He stressed that both the U.S. and Bahrain "need 
to put this issue behind us." 
 
MONROE