Mohamed Tahar

Muhammaed Yasir Ahmed Taher
Born1980 (1980)
Ibb, Yemen
DiedMarch 2, 2017(2017-03-02) (aged 36–37)
Yemen
Detained at Guantanamo
Other name(s) 
  • Mohammed Tahir
  • Mohammad Ahmad Ali Tahar
  • Yasir al-Silmi
  • Yasir Ahmad al Tahar
  • Muhammed Ahmad Ali Tahir al-Ibbi al-Dini
  • Farabi
  • Muhammed Tahir al-Sulami
  • Muhammed Hammed Allah
  • Yassir Ali Abdullah Ali Ahmed Al Sulaymi
ISN679
Charge(s)No charge (extrajudicial detention)
StatusReleased

Muhammaed Yasir Ahmed Taher (1980 – March 2, 2017) was a citizen of Yemen, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 679. American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1980, in Ibb, Yemen.

He was the younger brother of Ali Abdullah Ahmed, one of the three Guantanamo detainees who died in custody on June 10, 2006. The three deaths were announced by the Department of Defense as suicides.

He was repatriated on December 19, 2009.

NBC News reported, on March 3, 2017, that he was killed by a missile launched from a surveillance drone on March 2, 2017.