Mohammed Ahmed Salam is a citizen of Yemen

Yemen

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, currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp

Guantanamo Bay detainment camp

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s, in Cuba

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 after being classified as an enemy combatant

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 by the United States

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 government.
The Department of Defense

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 reports that Salam was born on October 1, 1980, in Ta'iz, Yemen and assigned him the Internment Serial Number 689.

As of August 17, 2011, Mohammed Ahmed Salam has been held at Guantanamo for nine years two months.

External links

• Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Six: Captured in Pakistan (2 of 3) Andy Worthington, October 6, 2010