Yussef al-Shihri, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yussef al-Shihri

Saudi Arabian Guantanamo detainee

Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1985

Place of Birth: Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia

Date of Death: 13-Oct-2009

Nationality: Saudi Arabia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Yussef Mohammed Mubarak al-Shihri (1985–2009) was a citizen of Saudi Arabia who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. He was born on September 8, 1985, in Riyadh Saudi Arabia. At the age of sixteen, he was captured along with his older cousin as part of a large group of 120 soldiers near Kunduz, and transferred to Shiberghan prison for six weeks, before being flown to Guantanamo on January 16, 2002.On June 15, 2005, human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith identified al-Shihri as one of a dozen teenage boys held in the adult portion of the prison. According to Smith, al-Shihri was 13 years old when captured.
Smith observed that official US documents referred to this dozen minors solely by their initials, because US law prohibits identifying minors.
Official documents referred to Al Shihri as "YAS". An October 2009 article in the Saudi Gazette asserts his older brother Saad Muhammad Al-Shehri took him to Afghanistan after he finished "intermediate school". Yussef Al-Shehri passed through the Saudi militant rehabilitation program following his repatriation from Guantanamo.
He was named on Saudi Arabia's list of most wanted terrorist suspects on February 3, 2009.
He was killed in a shootout with Saudi police, while apparently preparing to commit a suicide attack wearing an explosive belt on October 18, 2009.