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[[Image:Casio F91W digital watch.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Add image caption here.{{Casio F91W digital watch.jpg/credit}}]]
The '''Casio F91W''' is an inexpensive model of digital watch, manufactured by the Japanese firm [[Casio]].<ref name=APasscessmylibrary20060309>
{{cite news
| url=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/262432_gitmo10.html
| title=Casio watch is terror 'evidence' at Guantanamo: U.S. cases against at least 8 detainees cite the timepieces
| publisher=[[Seattle Post Intelligencer]]
| author=[[Ben Fox]]
| date=[[March 10]] [[2006]]
| accessdate=2007-10-20
}}</ref><ref name=NationalJournal20060203>
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| url=http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2006/0203nj4.htm
| title=Empty Evidence
| publisher=[[National Journal]]
| author=[[Corine Hegland]]
| date=Friday, [[February 3]] [[2006]]
| accessdate=2007-10-20
}}</ref><ref name=HarpersSeptember2005>
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| url=http://www.harpers.org/archive/2005/09/0080721
| title=Keeps on tickin'
| publisher=[[Harpers magazine]]
| date=September 2005
| accessdate=2007-10-20
}}</ref><ref name=UsaToday20041103>
{{cite news
| url=http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-11-03-gitmo-detainees_x.htm
| title=Detainees' cases show another side of Gitmo
| publisher=[[USA Today]]
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| author=[[Toni Locy]]
| date=[[November 3]] [[2004]]
| accessdate=2007-10-20
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Casio introduced this model in 1997.  It has a daily alarm, and a countdown timer.  These features trigger an audible alarm.
This model of watch is notable because [[United States]] [[Military intelligence|intelligence]] officials have identified it as the watch that terrorists use when constructing [[timebomb]]s.  [[Ahmed Ressam]], the millenial bomber, bought two Casio F91W,<ref name=Wcvb>[http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/7879445/detail.html Guantanamo Captives Jailed Because Of Digital Watches], ''[[WCVB]]'', [[March 10]] [[2006]]</ref>
When the [[Department of Defense]] was forced to comply with [[US District Court]] justice [[Jed Rakoff]]'s [[court order]] to release the documents from Guantanamo detainees' [[Combatant Status Review Tribunal]]s it became known that the allegations against approximately one dozen of the Guantanamo detainees justified their continued detention because they had been wearing this model of watch, when captured.<ref>[http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/onnesha/32048/?comments=view&cID=85991&pID=84682 Guantanamo: what you need to know], ''[[Alternet]]''</ref>
Casio officials declined to be interviewed about the U.S. intelligence accusations.<ref name=Wcvb>[http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/7879445/detail.html Guantanamo Captives Jailed Because Of Digital Watches], ''[[WCVB]]'', [[March 10]] [[2006]]</ref>  But Casio did issue a statement, where they said the watch ''"has no exclusive technology,"'' and, ''"Casio continues to work closely with all government agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security to help limit any potential threats and deal with security concerns."''
Detainees who testified to their surprise and confusion over this allegation have described their watches, and those descriptions have not matched the description of the F91W.  Their descriptions have mentioned built-in [[compass]]es and [[calculator]]s -- features the F91W lacks.
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