Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun

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Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun 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 576. The Department of Defense reports that Bin Hamdoun was born on November 13, 1979, in Ash Shihr, 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 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. Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun was one of those 169 detainees.[2]

[edit] Allegations

a. The detainee is associated with al Qaida:
  1. The detainee arrived in Afghanistan in the fall of 1999 from Yemen via Pakistan.
  2. The detainee trained at the al Farouq camp.
  3. The detainee completed training on the AK-47 fifle, M-16 rifle, rocket-propelled grenade launcher, PK pistol, and hand grenades.
  4. The detainee attended a lecture by Usama Bin Laden.
  5. The detainee stayed at mutliple safehouses.
  6. The detainee was arrested in a safehouse.
  7. During detainee's arrest, two flotation devices, with explosive residue on them, were discover [sic].

[edit] References

  1. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
  2. ^ Summary of Evidence memo (.pdf) prepared for Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - October 14, 2004 page 260

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