Abd Al Razzaq Abdallah Ibrahim Al Tamini

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Abd Al Razzaq Abdallah Ibrahim Al Tamini (also transliterated Abd Al Razaq Abdallah Hamid Ibrahim Al Sharikh) is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1] Al Tamini's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 067. The Department of Defense reports that he was born on January 18, 1984, in Shaqqara, Saudi Arabia.

Main article: Minors detained in the global war on terror

1 Combatant Status Review Tribunal
- 1.1 allegations
2 Second annual Administrative Review Board hearing
3 References

[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a small trailer, the same width, but shorter, than a mobile home. The Tribunal's President sat in the big chair. The detainee sat with their hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor in the white, plastic garden chair. A one way mirror behind the Tribunal President allowed observers to observe clandestinely. In theory the open sessions of the Tribunals were open to the press. Three chairs were reserved for them. In practice the Tribunal only intermittently told the press that Tribunals were being held. And when they did they kept the detainee's identities secret. In practice almost all Tribunals went unobserved.

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.

Al Tamini chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.^[2]

[edit] allegations

a The detainee is a member of Al Qaida.

In about late 2000, the detainee traveled from his native Saudi Arabia to Afghanistan via Pakistan.
The detainee was motivated to travel to Afghanistan to become a martyr like his brother, who died in combat in Chechnya.
Upon arriving at a safe house in Kandahar, Afghanistan, the detainee informed the safe-house facilitator that he wanted to go to the “front lines.”
The detainee received two months of training at the Al Farouq training camp.
While at Al Farouq, the detainee received training on small arms including the Makarov, AK-47, Dragunov SVD, RPG-7, and the RGD-5 hand grenades.
During his training at Al Farouq, the detainee attended a speech given by Usama Bin Laden.
While at the Al Farouq training camp, the detainee observed that the number of recruits training at the camp grew substantially during the summer months of 2001.

b The detainee participated in military operations against the coalition.

The detainee admits that he served on the “front lines” where fighting occurred.
The detainee used the Makarov, Dragunov SVD and AK-47 weapons while serving on the front lines.
The detainee was captured by Pakistani police while traveling with a group of Arabs and Afghanis, some of whom were security guards for Usama Bin Laden.

[edit] Second annual Administrative Review Board hearing

Detainees whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal confirmed their original classification as enemy combatnats have the value of continuing to detain them at Guantanamo reviewed on an annual basis. The BBC offered an account of the Second Administrative Review Board hearing of a young Saudi named Abdul-Razzaq. ^[3] Guantanamo contained about half a dozen detainees named Abdul-Razzaq, or something similar. but Al Tamini is the only one who is a Saudi. The detainee the BBC identified as Abdul-Razzaq said:

"I was 17-years-old and full of enthusiasm for jihad, but now after five years in Guantanamo I have changed. I need to go back to my country, lead a simple life care for my old parents and have a wife and kids."

The BBC reports that the detainee told his Board that two of his brothers were died during jihad, one in Chechnya, and one in Afghanistan, while a third brother was captured at the same time he was.

According to the BBC his Board promised to investigate when he reported:

"...that some of the evidence presented to the board - especially evidence kept from detainees - is false or was taken under pressure or psychological torture."

Main article: Guantanamo detainees who officially reported abuse