Bin Atef arrived in Guantanamo on February 7, 2002, and was held there until January 7, 2016.[2][3] Bin Atef, and fellow Yemeni captives in Guantanamo Khalid Mohammed Salih Al Dhuby, were the first two individuals to be transferred to a sub-Saharan Africa country—other than the country of their citizenship.[4]