Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmad

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Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmad is a citizen of Yemen held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camp, in Cuba.^[1] Ahmad's detainee number is 041^[2] The Department of Defense reports that he was born on June 15, 1980, in Burayqah, Yemen.

[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 tribunal 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.

Ahmad declined to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

[edit] allegations

The allegations against Ahmad were:

a The detainee is a member of the Taliban.

The detainee was an Usama Bin Laden [sic] bodyguard.
The detainee stayed at a Kandahar guesthouse in Afghanistan.
The detainee admits traveling to Afghanistan to fight for the Taliban.

b The detainee participated in military operations against the coalition.

The detainee served on the front lines in Afghanistan before retreating after September 11, 2001
The detainee was armed with an AK-47, three magazines and two anti-personnel grenades.
The detainee trained at the front lines on the proper technique to throw grenades.