Abd Al Hadio Omar Mahmoud Faraj

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Abd Al Hadio Omar Mahmoud Faraj is a Syrian held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.^[1] Faraj's detainee ID number is 329.

1 Combatant Status Review Tribunal
- 1.1 Allegations
- 1.2 Testimony
2 Administrative Review Board hearing
3 References

[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives from the war on terror. This policy was challenged before the Judicial branch. Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct a competent tribunals to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of prisoner of war status.

Subsequently the Department of Defense instituted the Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The Tribunals, however, were not authorized to determine whether the captives were lawful combatants -- rather they were merely empowered to make a recommendation as to whether the captive had previously been correctly determined to match the Bush administration's definition of an enemy combatant.

Faraj chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

[edit] Allegations

The allegations against Faraj were:^[2]

a The detainee is associated with the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

Originally from Syria, the detainee arrived in Afghanistan in 2000 after spending several months in Iran.
The detainee stayed in a house reserved for Syrians, was located in Kabul, Afghanistan.
The host of the house made training available to people going to fight coalition forces.
The detainee’s name or alias appears on a document recovered from safehouse raids on suspected Al Qaeda.
A foreign intelligence organization has provided information that indicates that the detainee joined an Al Qaeda training camp upon arriving in Afghanistan.

[edit] Testimony

[edit] Administrative Review Board hearing

Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings. The Administrative Review Boards weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".

They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat -- or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free.

Faraj chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.^[3]