Mohammed Rajab Sadiq Abu Ghanim

Ghanim and three other men were transferred to Saudi Arabia, on January 5, 2017.

One January 9, 2009, the Department of Defense published two heavily redacted memos, from his Board, to Gordon England, the Designated Civilian Official. The Board's recommendation was unanimous The Board's recommendation was redacted. England authorized his continued detention on March 17, 2008.

Scholars at the Brookings Institution, led by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations:

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for his third annual Administrative Review Board in 2007. The five page memo listed thirty-three "primary factors favor[ing] continued detention" and nine "primary factors favor[ing] release or transfer".

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Mohammed R Abu Ghanim's second annual Administrative Review Board in 2006. The four page memo listed thirty-five "primary factors favor[ing] continued detention" and eight "primary factors favor[ing] release or transfer".

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Mohammed Rajab Sadiq Abu Ghanim's first annual Administrative Review Board in 2005. The six page memo listed fifty "primary factors favor[ing] continued detention" and four "primary factors favor[ing] release or transfer".

Originally the Bush 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. 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.

Carol Rosenberg, of the Miami Herald, has been tracking Guantanamo's first twenty captives, who arrived at Guantanamo on January 11, 2002. She eventually identified Ghanim as one of the first twenty individuals.

Mohammed is alleged to have volunteered to fight in Bosnia's war of liberation, and the Yemeni Civil War, prior to heading to Afghanistan to volunteer to serve as a fighter for the Taliban. He is alleged to have been an Osama bin Laden bodyguard, to know about a secret bigger than al-Qaeda's attacks on September 11, 2001, although he told interrogators he had only served with the Taliban, and had never met Osama bin Laden.

He was alleged to have told interrogators that he knew a very shocking secret, bigger than the attacks on September 11, 2001, which he was withholding from them.

He was alleged to have traveled to volunteer as a fighter in Afghanistan in 2000. He was alleged to have been an Osama bin Laden bodyguard. However, he claimed he only fought with the Taliban, only served in Taliban units.

Thirteen of those factors justified his continued detention based on allegations he had volunteered to fight during the civil war in the former Yugoslavia that lead to the independence of Bosnia. He was alleged to have received a month of military training at a training camp for foreign volunteers in Mehrez, Bosnia, in 1994.