Umran Bakr Muhammad Hawsawi

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Umran Bakr Muhammad Hawsawi is a citizen of Saudi Arabia held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1] Hawsawi's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 368. American intelligence analysts estimate that Hawsawi was born in 1975, in Ta'if, Saudi Arabia.

1 Combatant Status Review Tribunal
2 Administrative Review Board hearing
- 2.1 The following primary factors favor continued detention:
- 2.2 The following primary factors favor release or transfer:
3 References

[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 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.

Hawsawi chose not to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

[edit] Administrative Review Board hearing

Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings. The Administrative Review Boards weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".

They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat -- or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free.

The factors for and against continuing to detain Hawsawi were among the 121 that the Department of Defense released on March 3, 2006.^[2]

[edit] The following primary factors favor continued detention:

a. Commitment

The detainee admitted knowing that Sheik Amoud Shouib Ouqula in Saudi Arabia had issued a Fatwa for Muslims to go and fight with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Sheikh Hamud ((Al-Uqqla)) is a Saudi Mufti who issued a Fatwa calling for jihad against Christians and Jews. Al-Uqqla condoned the 11 September 2001 attacks against the United States of America.
The detainee decided to travel to an Afghani refugee camp sometime in September 2001 after hearing of the war in that area.
The detainee was in the camp when the United States bombardment began and he sustained shrapnel injuries.

b. Training

The detainee was identified to be in Kabul, Afghanistna training at the al Farouq camp.
The detainee stated that he went to Afghanistan for the training. [sic]

c. Connections/Associations

The detainee traveled from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to Damascus, Syria, then to Tehran, Iran, then to Mashad, Iran before crossing the border into Afghanistan.
The detainee attempted to enter Afghanistan legally but he was turned back by Iranian officials. He did eventually sneak across the border, aided by another individual.
Prior to being turned over to U.S. Forces, detainee surrendered his passport in Quetta while he was staying at the Saudi Red Crescent Hospital.
The detainee's passport had altered stamps which indicated a possible al Qaida connection.
A senior al Qaida lieutenant stated that the detainee is a member of al Qaida. The detainee is on the media committee along with Khalid Shaykh Muhammad (KSM).

d. Other relevant Data

The detainee has committed two assaults which consisted of throwing food, milk, tea, water and body fluids on the MPs. He has also harassed the guards by telling them to die and making threatening gestures at them.

[edit] The following primary factors favor release or transfer:

The detainee said he traveled to Afghanistan to teach the Koran and to fulfill the Koran's religious principles.
The detainee denied any knowledge of training camps in Afghanistan or of the al Qaida organization.