Mahmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef

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Mahmmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] His detainee ID number is 202. American intelligence analysts report that Bin Atef was born in 1980, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

[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 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 Tribunal. 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.

To comply with a Freedom of Information Act request, during the winter and spring of 2005, the Department of Defense released 507 memoranda. Those 507 memoranda each contained the allegations against a single detainee, prepared for their Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The detainee's name and ID numbers were redacted from all but one of the memoranda. However 169 of the memoranda had the detainee's ID hand-written on the top right hand of the first page corner. When the Department of Defense complied with a court order, and released official lists of the detainee's names and ID numbers it was possible to identify who those 169 were written about. Mahmmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef was one of those 169 detainees.[2]

[edit] Allegations

a. The detainee is a member of the Taliban and associated with al Qaida:
  1. The detainee arrived in Afghanistan in June 2001 from Saudi Arabia via Pakistan.
  2. The detainee went to Afghanistant to fight the jihad.
  3. The detainee is a member of the Taliban.
  4. The detainee completed military training at Al Farouq.
  5. The detainee received weapons training on the Kalashnikov rifle, rocket-propelled grenade launcher, and pistols.
  6. The detainee met Usama Bin Laden.
b. The detainee participated in military operations against the United States and its coalition partners:
  1. The detainee was engaged in the conflict at the Konduz line.
  2. The detainee was engaged in the conflict at the Khoshaghar line.
  3. The detainee was present at the Al Janki [sic] uprising at Mazur-e-Sharif [sic].

[edit] References

  1. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
  2. ^ Summary of Evidence memo (.pdf) prepared for Mahmmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - October 7, 2004 page 270
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