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Bahraini citizen

Jumah Mohammed Abdul Latif Al Dossari (جمعه محمد عبد اللطيف الدوسري) is a Bahraini citizen who was held for five years at Camp Delta, at the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay. He spent 3 1/2 years in solitary confinement. He was released to Saudi Arabia in 2007 with no charges against him. During the 1990s, he fought in Bosnia and Chechnya.

On September 5, 2005, the Gulf Daily News summarized a letter Al Dossari had written, protesting his innocence. The letter was post marked June 10, 2005, and described various abuses he had suffered, including:
cigarettes being extinguished on his body. being made to walk on barbed wire. being urinated on by GIs. On September 17, 2005, the Gulf Daily News summarized a letter received from the father of Al Dossari, saying that he had throat cancer, expects to die soon and pleads to see his son.

An article published on November 7, 2005, quotes Peter J. Ahearn, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Buffalo office concerning interest the FBI had in ties between Al Dossary, and the Lackawanna Six. Six Yemeni Americans from Lackawanna, near Buffalo, secretly traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan, for jihad training, in early 2001. Ahearn told the Buffalo News that two of the Lackawanna Six said that Al Dossary had delivered a "fiery speech" at the Guidance Mosque in Lackawanna. According to Ahearn the FBI is interested in learning whether Al Dossary may have helped fund the Lackawanna men's travel expenses. The Buffalo News article quotes from Al Dossary's Combatant Status Review Tribunal. They report that Al Dossary acknowledges traveling to Buffalo, and acknowledges giving a "fiery speech", but denied ever encouraging anyone to join al Qaeda. They report Al Dossary denied having any ties to al Qaeda or terrorism.

On June 12, 2006 Al Dossary wrote a letter to his lawyer Colangelo Bryan, requesting an independent medical examination. Al Dossary told Colangelo Bryan that he acquired a dangerous blood disease as a result of a blood transfusion that followed his March 11, 2006 suicide attempt. Al Dossary had learned that his father finally died from terminal cancer, shortly before he drafted this letter. The camp authorities had informed him of the death, which they said they learned about over the internet. Al Dossary said that the camp authorities were not allowing him to receive mail from his family, and were withholding his personal belongings from him, and keeping him in solitary confinement. Al Dossary said that bad news, on top of the news of the blood condition, the withholding of all mail from his family, and the solitary confinement, had left him feeling his death was imminent. Al Dossary also reported that the camp authorities had promised him a rare phone call to his family, following his father's death. Al Dossary's June 12 letter was only declassified by the military on July 25, 2006, so it is unknown whether Al Dossary was able to take advantage of the camp authority's offer.

On November 2, 2008, that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown toured the rehabilitation center for former Guantanamo captives, and, while there spoke with al Dossari, Ghanim al Harbi, and other former captives. The former captives received a flat, a job, and 20,000 pounds for a dowry, so they can get married. In 2009, at the inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States, the Associated Press interviewed al Dossary, who stated that his only wish was that " Obama was elected years ago. Guantanamo would not have happened".