Ahmed Adil

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Ahmed Adil is a citizen of China, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.^[1] Adil's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 260. American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1973, in Kashkar, China.

Adil is one of approximately two dozen detainees from the Uighur ethnic group.^[2]

Main article: Uighur detainees in Guantanamo

1 Combatant Status Review Tribunal
- 1.1 allegations
2 Letter to the Secretary of State
3 Asylum in Albania
4 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.

Adil chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.^[3]

[edit] allegations

The allegations against Adil were:

The detainee traveled to Jalalabad, Afghanistan from Pakistan in 2001.
The detainee went to Afghanistan in October 2001 to receive training.
The detainee traveled from Jalalabad to a Uighur camp in the Tora Bora mountains and stayed there for approximately forty-five days.
Uighur groups in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have formed ties with Al Qaeda and other Islamic terrorist groups and China’s two principal militant Uighur groups are the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) and the East Turkistan Liberation Organization (ETLO).
The East Turkistan Islamic Movement is listed in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Terrorist Organization Reference Guide, as being one of the most militant groups, and has financial and training ties to Al Qaeda.
While in the Tora Bora Mountains, the detainee learned how to “break down” the Kalashnikov.
The detainee was in the Tora Bora mountains when the U.S. bombing campaign occurred.
Pakistani soldiers, while fleeing Afghanistan into Pakistan, captured the detainee, along with other Uighurs and Arabs.

[edit] Letter to the Secretary of State

Adil wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on January 19, 2006.^[4] In it he wrote that his Tribunal determined he was innocent on May 9, 2005. He said he was appealing directly to Rice because he had tried all other options.

[edit] Asylum in Albania

On May 5, 2006 the Department of Defense announced that they had transferred five Uighurs who had been determined not to have been enemy combatants, to Albania.^[5] Seventeen other Uighurs continue to be held at Guantanamo, because their CSRTs determined they were enemy combatants.