Rami Bin Said Al Taibi

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Rami Bin Said Al Taibi is a Saudi Arabia held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1] Al Taibi's detainee ID number is 318. The Department of Defense reports that Al Taibi was born on December 24, 1980, in Ta'if, Saudi Arabia.

1 Combatant Status Review Tribunal
- 1.1 Allegations
- 1.2 Testimony
2 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.

[edit] Allegations

A memorandum summarizing the evidence against Al Taibi prepared for his Combatan Status Reiew Tribunal, was among those released in March of 2005.^[2]

The allegations Al Taibi faced were:

a. The detainee is associated with al Qaida:

The detainee traveled to Afghanistan from Saudi Arabia in approximately August of 2001.
The detainee received training at a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan.
The detainee's name was included in a computer file recovered from an al Qaida safehouse in Islamabad that listed prisoners currently incarcerated in Pakistan.
The detainee's name was found in a document recovered from an al Qaida safehouse in Karachi.
The detainee's name was listed as al Qaida Mujahidin who had not yet completed training in a document recovered from an al Qaida safehouse in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
One of the detainee's known aliases was on a list of captured al Qaida members that was discovered on a computer hard drive associated with a senior al Qaida member.

[edit] Testimony

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

Al Taibi denied any relationship with al Qaeda.

He acknowledged traveling to Afghanistan for training - religious training.

He was sure that the name of the person who participate in Mujahidin training was not his.

He has no aliases, so no aliases of his could be found in safehouses, or on captured hard drives, because he didn’t have any aliases.

He said that as the only son in his family he was exempt from being conscripted into a jihad, and he had an official document, a hathwa, confirming this.