Khalid Saud Abd Al Rahman Al Bawardi

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Khalid Saud Abd Al Rahman Al Bawardi is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.[1] Al Bawardi's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 068. American intelligence analysts estimate that Al Bawardi was born in 1977, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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[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.
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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 Bawardi chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[2]

[edit] allegations

The allegations Al Bawardi faced druing his Tribunal were:[2]

  1. The detainee is associated with the Jama'at al Tabligh [sic].
  2. Jama'at al Tabligh [sic], a Pakistan based Islamic missionary organization is being used as a cover to mask travel and activities of terrorists, including members of Al Qaeda.
  3. The detainee's name appeared on a list of Al Qaeda mujahedin seized from an Al Qaeda safehouse in Pakistan.
  4. The detainee was captured with a group of Al Qaeda members.

[edit] testimony

[edit] References

  1. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, April 20, 2006
  2. ^ a b Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Khalid Saud Abd Al Rahman Al Bawardi's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 15-33
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