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{{Infobox War on Terror detainee
| name           = Ahmed Ould Abd al-Aziz
| image          = ISN 00757, Ahmed Ould Abd al-Aziz.jpg
| image_size     = 
| caption        = Ahmed Ould Abd al-Aziz, wearing the tan coverals of a compliant captive
| birth_date     = {{Birth-date and age|1970}}
| birth_place    = [[Atar, Mauritania]]
| arrest_date    = 2002-06-25
| arrest_place   = [[Pakistan]]
| arresting_authority= Pakistani security officials
| release_date   = 
| release_place  = 
| death_date     = <!-- {{Death-date and age| death date | birth date }} -->
| death_place    = 
| citizenship    = [[Mauritania]]
| detained_at    = [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp|Guantanamo]]
| id_number      = 757
| group          = 
| alias          = * Ahmed Abdel Aziz
* Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz
* Ahmed Ould Abdul Aziz
* Ahmed Ould Abdal Aziz
* Ahmed Ould Abd al-Aziz
* Akhmed Aziz
* Abu Jafar al-Mauritani
* Abu Muhammad,
* Abu Ubaydah al-Husni al-Shinqiti
* Muhammad Amin
* Muhammad Lemine Ould Bouchama
* Nejib
* Muhammad Mahmoud
| charge         = no charge, [[extrajudicial detention]]
| penalty        = 
| status         = 
| occupation     = teacher
| spouse         = 
| parents        = 
| children       = 
}}

'''Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz''' is a citizen of [[Mauritanian]], who was held in [[extrajudicial detention]] in the [[United States]] [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp]]s, in [[Cuba]].<ref name=DoDList2>
{{cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf 
| title=List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
| publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]
| accessdate=2006-05-15
| quote=
}}
</ref>
His Guantanamo [[Internee Security Number]] is 757.
[[Joint Task Force Guantanamo]] analysts report that he was born on February 24, 1970, [[Atar, Mauritania|Atar]], Mauritania.

==Background==

Historian [[Andy Worthington]], the author of ''[[The Guantanamo Files]]'', described al-Aziz as a scholar, who was fluent in [[French language|French]] and [[English language|English]] as well as [[Arabic language|Arabic]].<ref name=AndyWorthington>
{{cite news 
| url         = http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/10/13/who-are-the-remaining-prisoners-in-guantanamo-part-seven-captured-in-pakistan-3-of-3/
| title       = Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Seven: Captured in Pakistan (3 of 3)
| publisher   = 
| author      = [[Andy Worthington]]
| date        = 2010-10-13
| accessdate  = 2013-06-02
| archivedate = 
| archiveurl  = 
| deadurl     = No 
| quote       = A Mauritanian seized in a house raid on June 25, 2002, Abdul Aziz is accused of being a member of al-Qaeda, even though the US government has failed to come up with a single piece of evidence to support the claim. Evidently an educated and articulate man (his first lawyers at Guantánamo noted that he studied literature and philosophy, and speaks French and English, in addition to Arabic), Abdul Aziz, according to the government’s account, traveled to Afghanistan in September 1999 to support the Taliban against the Northern Alliance, and undertook training in 2000. At the time of his capture, however, he was working as an Arabic language teacher at an institute in Pakistan, far from the battlefields of Afghanistan, and there is no evidence that he ever took up arms against anyone, and certainly no evidence that he was ever involved in any activities against the United States. Instead, he is quoted in the government’s documents as saying that he “believed his direct supervisor was more affiliated with the Taliban than with al-Qaeda,” that he “visited [the] supervisor’s house but never discussed things such as al-Qaeda,” and that, although “a man he worked for told him that al-Qaeda needed a good administrator and approached him on al-Qaeda’s behalf,” he turned down the offer. Set against this are an array of unsubstantiated al-Qaeda allegations, which are in marked contrast to Abdul Aziz’s own account, in which he admitted that he “spoke with Osama bin Laden about the Institute … for approximately five minutes in October 2000.” The claim that he was a member of al-Qaeda came from an unidentified “source,” who also claimed that he had sworn bayat (an oath of loyalty) to Osama bin Laden. It was also claimed that he had been recruited to join al-Qaeda by “a personal adviser of Osama bin Laden, who leads the Mauritanian al-Qaeda cell,” and had attended the wedding of one of bin Laden’s sons in 1999 or 2000.
}}
</ref>

The [[Guantanamo Review Joint Task Force]] instituted by [[United States President|President]] [[Barack Obama]] in January 2009 al-Aziz acknowledges that al-Aziz asserted he had been tortured.<ref name=Feb2009interviews>
{{cite web
| url=http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs/App4.pdf
| title=Interview
| date=2009-02
| publisher=[[Department of Defense]]
| archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.defenselink.mil%2Fpubs%2Fpdfs%2FApp4.pdf&date=2009-06-01
| archivedate=2009-06-01
}}</ref>

==Inconsistent identification==

Aziz's name was spelled inconsistently on various official documents released by  the [[United States Department of Defense]].
* Aziz is called '''Ahmed Abdel Aziz''' on the official list of all Guantanamo captives, released on May 15, 2006.<ref name=DoDList2/>
* Aziz is called '''Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz''' on the official list of captives whose earlier determination as an "[[enemy combatant]]s" was reconsiderd by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal, and on various official memos and lists released in September of 2007.<ref name=DoDList>[http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)], ''[[US Department of Defense]]'', 2006-04-20</ref><ref name=CsrtSummaryOfEvidenceAhmedOuldAbdelAziz>
{{cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000500-000599.pdf#100
| title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Aziz, Ahmed Ould Abdel
| publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]
| author=[[OARDEC]]
| date=2004-11-01
| pages=pages 100-101
| accessdate=2007-10-10
}}</ref><ref name=ArbSummaryOfEvidenceAhmedOuldAbdelziz>
{{cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000595-000693.pdf#60
| title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Aziz, Ahmed Ould Abdel
| publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]
| author=[[OARDEC]]
| date=2005-11-08
| pages=pages 60-61
| accessdate=2007-10-10
}}</ref><ref name=OardecCsrtSummaryOfEvidence20070717>
{{cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_CSRT_unclassified_summaries.pdf
|format=PDF| title=Index for Combatant Status Review Board unclassified summaries of evidence
| author=[[OARDEC]]
| publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]
| date=2007-07-17
| accessdate=2007-09-29
}}</ref><ref name=OardecArb1Factors>
{{cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_1_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf 
|format=PDF| title=Index to Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round One
| author=[[OARDEC]]
| publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]
| date=2007-08-09
| accessdate=2007-09-29
}}</ref><ref name=OardecArb2Factors20070717>
{{cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_2_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf
|format=PDF| title=Index of Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round Two
| author=[[OARDEC]]
| publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]
| date=2007-07-17
| accessdate=2007-09-29
}}</ref>
* Aziz is called '''Akhmed Aziz''' on the [[Summary of Evidence (ARB)|Summary of Evidence memos]] prepared for his second, third and fourth annual [[Administrative Review Board]]s.<ref name=Arb2SummaryOfEvidenceIsn757>
{{cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_799-899.pdf#page=6
| title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Aziz, Akhmed
| publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]
| author=[[OARDEC]]
| date=2006-09-20
| pages=pages 6-9
| accessdate=2007-10-10
}}</ref><ref name=Arb3SummaryOfEvidenceIsn757>
{{cite news 
| url         = http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/757-ahamed-abdel-aziz/documents/9
| title       = Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Aziz, Akhmed
| publisher   = [[United States Department of Defense]]
| author      = [[OARDEC]]
| date        = 2007-11-27
| accessdate  = 2013-06-01
| quote       = 
}}
</ref><ref name=Arb4SummaryOfEvidenceIsn757>
{{cite news 
| url         = http://commons.wikimedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=File%3AARB_4_Documents_for_ISNs_757_through_1461.pdf&page=9
| title       = Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Aziz, Akhmed
| publisher   = [[United States Department of Defense]]
| author      = [[OARDEC]]
| date        = 2008-07-30
| accessdate  = 2013-06-01
| quote       = 
}}
</ref>
* Aziz is called '''Ahmed Ould Abd al-Aziz''' on the [[Joint Task Force Guantanamo]] assessment drafted on February 27, 2008.<ref name=TheTelegraphDabIsn757>
{{cite news
| url         = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/guantanamo-bay-wikileaks-files/8477159/Guantanamo-Bay-detainee-file-on-Ahmed-Ould-Abdel-Aziz-US9MR-000757DP.html
| title       = Guantanamo Bay detainee file on Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz, US9MR-000757DP, passed to the Telegraph by Wikileaks 
| publisher   = [[The Telegraph (UK)]]
| author      = 
| date        = 2011-04-27
| page        = 
| accessdate  = 2013-06-01
| archivedate = 2011-20-10
| archiveurl  = http://web.archive.org/web/20111010223924/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/guantanamo-bay-wikileaks-files/8477159/Guantanamo-Bay-detainee-file-on-Ahmed-Ould-Abdel-Aziz-US9MR-000757DP.html
| deadurl = no
| quote       = Recommendation: Continued detention under DoD control
}}  
</ref>

==Official status reviews==

Originally the [[George W. Bush|Bush]] [[United States President|Presidency]] asserted that captives apprehended in the ''"[[war on terror]]"'' were not covered by the [[Geneva Conventions]], and could be held indefinitely, without charge, and without an open and transparent review of the justifications for their detention.<ref name=UsaToday20071011>
{{cite news
| url         = http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-10-11-guantanamo-combatants_N.htm
| title       = U.S. military reviews 'enemy combatant' use
| publisher   = [[USA Today]]
| date        = 2007-10-11
| archivedate = 2012-08-11
| archiveurl  = http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fnews%2Fwashington%2F2007-10-11-guantanamo-combatants_N.htm&date=2012-08-11
| deadurl     = no
| quote       = Critics called it an overdue acknowledgment that the so-called Combatant Status Review Tribunals are unfairly geared toward labeling detainees the enemy, even when they pose little danger. Simply redoing the tribunals won't fix the problem, they said, because the system still allows coerced evidence and denies detainees legal representation.
}}  
</ref>
In 2004 the [[United States Supreme Court]] ruled, in [[Rasul v. Bush]], that Guantanamo captives were entitled to being informed of the allegations justifying their detention, and were entitled to try to refute them.

===Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants===

Following the Supreme Court's ruling the [[Department of Defense]] set up the [[Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants]].<ref name=UsaToday20071011/>

====Combatant Status Review Tribunal====
[[Image:CSRT notice read to a Guantanamo captive.jpg|thumb|Combatant Status Review Tribunal notice read to a Guantanamo captive. During the period July 2004 through March 2005 a Combatant Status Review Tribunal was convened to make a determination whether they had been correctly classified as an "enemy combatant". Participation was optional. The Department of Defense reports that 317 of the 558 captives who remained in Guantanamo, in military custody, attended their Tribunals.]]

Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the [[Geneva Conventions]] to captives from [[the war on terror]]. This policy was challenged before the Judicial branch. Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct [[competent tribunal]]s to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of [[prisoner of war]] status. 

Subsequently the [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] instituted the [[Combatant Status Review Tribunal]]s. The Tribunals, however, were not authorized to determine whether the captives were ''lawful combatants'' -- rather they were merely empowered to make a recommendation as to whether the captive had previously been correctly determined to match the Bush administration's definition of an [[enemy combatant]]. 

=====Summary of Evidence memo=====

A [[Summary of Evidence (CSRT)|Summary of Evidence memo]] was prepared for Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on November 1, 2004.<ref name=CsrtSummaryOfEvidenceAhmedOuldAbdelAziz>
{{cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000500-000599.pdf#100
| title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Aziz, Ahmed Ould Abdel 
| date=2004-11-01
| pages='''pages 100-101'''
| author=[[OARDEC]]
| publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]
| accessdate=2008-02-26
}}</ref>
There were 23 allegations listed on Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz's Summary of Evidence memo, including:
* That he traveled to Afghanistan in 1999.
* That he attended the celebration of [[al-Zawahiri]] joining [[al Qaida]].
* That he fought for the [[Taliban]].
* That he stayed at al Qaeda guest houses in [[Kabul]] and [[Jalalabad]].
* That he trained at [[Afghan military camp]]s.
* Thae he had spoken with [[Usama bin Ladin]], and attended his son's wedding.
* That someone from al Qaeda arranged a wedding for him.

====Administrative Review Board hearing====
[[Image:Administrative Review Board hearing room.jpg|thumb|Hearing room where Guantanamo captive's annual Administrative Review Board hearings convened for captives whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal had already determined they were an "enemy combatant".<ref name=TheWire20060310> ({{cite news | url=http://www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil/wire/WirePDF/v6/TheWire-v6-i049-10MAR2006.pdf#1 | title=Review process unprecedented | publisher=[[The Wire (JTF-GTMO)]] | pages= 1 | author=Spc Timothy Book | date=2006-03-10|accessdate=2007-10-12 }}</ref>]]

Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual [[Administrative Review Board]] hearings. The Administrative Review Boards weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant". 

They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat—or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free. XXX chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.

=====First annual Administrative Review Board=====

A [[Summary of Evidence (ARB)|Summary of Evidence memo]] was prepared for Aziz's first annual Administrative Review Board, on 2005-11-08.<ref name=ArbSummaryOfEvidenceAhmedOuldAbdelziz/>

=====Second annual Administrative Review Board=====

A [[Summary of Evidence (ARB)|Summary of Evidence memo]] was prepared for Aziz's second annual Administrative Review Board, on September 20, 2006.<ref name=Arb2SummaryOfEvidenceIsn757/>
Aziz was named '''Akhmed Aziz''' on this memo.
That memo was three pages long.

=====Third annual Administrative Review Board=====

A [[Summary of Evidence (ARB)|Summary of Evidence memo]] was prepared for Aziz's third annual Administrative Review Board, on November 27, 2007.<ref name=Arb3SummaryOfEvidenceIsn757/>
That memo was four pages long.

=====Fourth annual Administrative Review Board=====

A [[Summary of Evidence (ARB)|Summary of Evidence memo]] was prepared for Aziz's fourth annual Administrative Review Board, on July 30, 2008.<ref name=Arb4SummaryOfEvidenceIsn757/>
That memo was five pages long.

====Brookings summary====

Scholars at the [[Brookings Institute]], lead by [[Benjamin Wittes]], listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations<ref name=Brookings2008-12-16>
{{cite news
| url=http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/reports/2008/12/16%20detainees%20wittes/1216_detainees_wittes.pdf
| title=The Current Detainee Population of Guantánamo: An Empirical Study
| publisher=[[The Brookings Institute]]
| date=2008-12-16
| author=[[Benjamin Wittes]], Zaathira Wyne
| accessdate=2010-02-16
| quote=Al Sani said he traveled to Afghanistan shortly before September 11 and trained on a Kalashnikov. “I felt it was important in coming of age,” he said. “I went to Afghanistan for weapons training, not to fight anyone.”
}} 
[http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brookings.edu%2F%7E%2Fmedia%2Fresearch%2Ffiles%2Freports%2F2008%2F12%2F16%2520detainees%2520wittes%2F1216_detainees_wittes.pdf&date=2012-06-22 mirror]
</ref>:

* Al-Aziz  was listed as one of the captives who ''"The military alleges ... are associated with both Al Qaeda and the Taliban."''<ref name=Brookings2008-12-16/>
* Al-Aziz  was listed as one of the captives who ''"The military alleges that the following detainees stayed in Al Qaeda, Taliban or other guest- or safehouses."''<ref name=Brookings2008-12-16/>
* Al-Aziz  was listed as one of the captives who ''"The military alleges ... took military or terrorist training in Afghanistan."''<ref name=Brookings2008-12-16/>
* Al-Aziz  was listed as one of the captives who ''"The military alleges ... fought for the Taliban."''<ref name=Brookings2008-12-16/>
* Al-Aziz  was listed as one of the captives who was ab ''"al Qaeda operative"''.<ref name=Brookings2008-12-16/>
* Al-Aziz  was listed as one of the ''"82 detainees made no statement to CSRT or ARB tribunals or made statements that do not bear materially on the military’s allegations against them."''<ref name=Brookings2008-12-16/>

===Formerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment===

On April 25, 2011, whistleblower organization [[WikiLeaks]] published formerly secret assessments drafted by [[Joint Task Force Guantanamo]] analysts.<ref name=TelegraphWikiLeaksRevealed2011-04-25>
{{cite news
| url         = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8471907/WikiLeaks-Guantanamo-Bay-terrorist-secrets-revealed.html
| title       = WikiLeaks: Guantanamo Bay terrorist secrets revealed -- Guantanamo Bay has been used to incarcerate dozens of terrorists who have admitted plotting terrifying attacks against the West – while imprisoning more than 150 totally innocent people, top-secret files disclose
| publisher   = [[The Telegraph (UK)]]
| date        = 2011-04-27
| accessdate  = 2012-07-13
| author      = Christopher Hope, Robert Winnett, Holly Watt, Heidi Blake
| archivedate = 2012-07-13
| archiveurl  = http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworldnews%2Fwikileaks%2F8471907%2FWikiLeaks-Guantanamo-Bay-terrorist-secrets-revealed.html&date=2012-07-13
| deadurl = no
| quote       = The Daily Telegraph, along with other newspapers including The Washington Post, today exposes America’s own analysis of almost ten years of controversial interrogations on the world’s most dangerous terrorists. This newspaper has been shown thousands of pages of top-secret files obtained by the WikiLeaks website.
}}  
</ref><ref name=TheTelegraphDabDatabase>
{{cite news
| url         = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/guantanamo-bay-wikileaks-files/8476672/WikiLeaks-The-Guantanamo-files-database.html
| title       = WikiLeaks: The Guantánamo files database
| publisher   = [[The Telegraph (UK)]]
| date        = 2011-04-27
| accessdate  = 2012-07-10
| archivedate = 
| archiveurl  = 
| deadurl = no
}}  
</ref>
Aziz's assessment was 14 pages long.<ref name=TheTelegraphDabIsn757/>

===Interviewed by President Obama's review team===

[[United States President]] [[Barack Obama]] dispatched a team to report back to him about Guantanamo.<ref name=Feb2009interviews>
{{cite web
| url=http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs/App4.pdf
| title=Interview
| date=2009-02
| publisher=[[Department of Defense]]
| archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.defenselink.mil%2Fpubs%2Fpdfs%2FApp4.pdf&date=2009-06-01
| archivedate=2009-06-01
}}</ref>  
His team conducted close to one hundred interviews.  Eleven interviews were conducted with captives.  Their [[Internee Security Number]] were redacted from the field devoted to that purpose.  But the comment field for two of the interviews contained Ahmed Ould's ID number.  
The notes said he was interviewed in "Papa tier" of [[Camp 3, Guantanamo|Camp 3]] by a legal member of the team.  He said:
:{| class="wikitable"
| 2009-02-05 || '''''757''' made unsolicited claim he was tortured (showing a "bandage" on his thigh); followed up with DIMS reports, [[Forced cell extraction (Guantanamo)|FCE]] record and medical reDorts
|-
| 2009-02-09 || ''Explained findings "unsubstantiated" during walk-through, when '''757''' made additional, unrelated claims.
|}

==Repatriation==

Historian and journalist [[Andy Worthington]] reported on June 1, 2013 that Aziz and his compatriot [[Mohamedou Ould Slahi]] were repatriated on May 31, 2013.<ref name=AndyWorthington2013-06-01>
{{cite news 
| url         = http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2013/06/01/exclusive-two-guantanamo-prisoners-released-in-mauritania/
| title       = EXCLUSIVE: Two Guantánamo Prisoners Released in Mauritania
| publisher   = 
| author      = [[Andy Worthington]]
| date        = 2013-06-01
| page        = 
| location    = 
| isbn        = 
| accessdate  = 2013-06-01
| archivedate = 
| archiveurl  = 
| deadurl     = No 
| quote       = In news that has so far only been available in Arabic, and which I was informed about by a Mauritanian friend on Facebook, I can confirm that two prisoners from Guantánamo have been released, and returned to their home country of Mauritania. 
}}
</ref><ref name=Tad2013-05-31>
{{cite news 
| url         = http://taqadoumy.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3688:2013-05-31-23-37-16&catid=77:personal-tech&Itemid=478
| title       = وصول ولد صلاحي و ولد عبد العزيز لنواكشوط
| publisher   = 
| author      = 
| date        = 2013-05-31
| accessdate  = 2013-06-01
| language    = [[Arabic language|Arabic]] 
| trans_title = Access Ould Salahi and Abdel Aziz in Nouakchott
| archivedate = 
| archiveurl  = 
| deadurl     = No 
| quote       = 
}}
</ref><ref name=AniMr2013-05-31>
{{cite news 
| url         = http://ani.mr/?menuLink=9bf31c7ff062936a96d3c8bd1f8f2ff3&idNews=21882
| title       = عاجل: وصول ولد الصلاحي وولد عبد العزيز من غوانتنامو إلى نواكشوط
| publisher   = 
| author      = 
| date        = 2013-05-31
| page        = 
| location    = 
| isbn        = 
| accessdate  = 2013-06-01
| language    = [[Arabic language|Arabic]] 
| trans_title =  URGENT: Born Salahi access and Ould Abdel Aziz, from Guantánamo to Nouakchott
| archivedate = 
| archiveurl  = 
| deadurl     = No 
| quote       = 
}}
</ref><ref name=Sondakika2013-06-01>
{{cite news 
| url         = http://www.sondakika.com/haber/haber-guantanamo-daki-2-moritanyali-serbest-birakildi-4688463/
| title       =  Guantanamo'daki 2 Moritanyalı Serbest Bırakıldı: Guantanamo'da 10 yıldır tutuklu bulunan 2 Moritanya vatandaşı, ülkelerine gönderildi
| publisher   = [[Sondakika]]
| date        = 2013-06-01
| accessdate  = 2013-06-01
| language    = [[Turkish language|Turkish]] 
| trans_title = 2 Mauritanian citizen detained in Guantanamo for 10 years, was sent to the countries.
| archivedate = 2013-06-01
| archiveurl  = http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sondakika.com%2Fhaber%2Fhaber-guantanamo-daki-2-moritanyali-serbest-birakildi-4688463%2F&date=2013-06-01
| deadurl     = No 
| quote       = Baza americana din Guantanamo Bay de peste 10 ani de închisoare și a fost eliberat două țări au fost livrate la cetățenii din Mauritania spus.   Conform informațiilor de la rudele de două Moritanyalının lansat, forțele de securitate americane, Makhdoom Ould Ahmed Ould Salahi și Abdulaziz'i, autoritățile Novakșot din Mauritania predat la aeroport. Familiile au spus că se întâlnesc la petreceri. 
}}
</ref>
Worthington wrote that their release ''"...appears to be confirmation that President Obama’s promise to resume the release of prisoners from Guantánamo was not as hollow as many of his promises have turned out to be."''
Also repatriated was a Mauritanian who had been a long term captive in the [[Bagram Theater Internment Facility]].

==References==
<references/>

==External links==
{{tlx|Portal|Biography}}
* [http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/10/13/who-are-the-remaining-prisoners-in-guantanamo-part-seven-captured-in-pakistan-3-of-3/ Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Seven: Captured in Pakistan (3 of 3)] Andy Worthington, October 13, 2010

{{tlx|WoTPrisoners|state=collapsed}}

{{tlx|Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. -->
| NAME              = Ahmed Ould Abd al-Aziz
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
| SHORT DESCRIPTION =
| DATE OF BIRTH     = 1970
| PLACE OF BIRTH    =
| DATE OF DEATH     =
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ahmed Ould Abd al-Aziz}}
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