Ziad Said Farg Jahdari

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Ziad Said Farg Jahdari is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1] His Guantanamo detainee ID is 286. Intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1979, in Jeddah, 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.

Jahdari 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 Jahdari were among the 120 that the Department of Defense released on March 3, 2006.^[2]

[edit] The following primary factors favor continued detention:

a. Commitment

Detainee traveled to [[Afghanistan and stayed in a place called the Afghan Center, 20 kilometers from Kabul. Detainee served as a guard and his responsibility was to watch for the enemy. The Afghan Center was run by the Taliban.
The detainee has been designated as a high priority target and placed on a government watch list.
Detainee departed Saudi Arabia in the Spring 2001, spent two nights in Karachi, Pakistan, then flew on to Quetta, PK. The detainee spent 6 hours in Quetta, PK, then left for Afghanistan. The detainee traveled by car to Kandahar, AF, where he stayed in a house with both Afghanis and Arabs. The detainee stayed there for approximately three weeks before traveling to Kabul, AF. The detainee stayed in Kabul for approximately three weeks before leaving for a village where he trained on the Kalashnikov. The detainee spent two and a half months in the village.

b. Training

The detainee received one day of training with the Kalashnikov rifle before standing guard duty.
The detainee was unable to provide the name of the group which he trained under; the name of the individual who trained him in the operation of the Kalishnikob rifle; the names of the individuals who sent him to the front lines; or the name of the commander he was under.

c. Intent

The detainee was advised to fight with the Taliban if it is needed.
The detainee was recruited to fight the Northern Alliance and was financed for his trip to Afghanistan from Jessah, Saudi Arabia by a Taliban member.
The detainee fired his weapon in the direction of what he believed was the enemy.

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

a. Other Relevant Data

The detainne advised if given the opportunity to return to his home of Jetta, Saudi Arabia, he would get married, obtain a job, and live with his mother and father.
The detainee advised he does not hold any hostility or hatred toward the United States.
The detainee was provided misinformation in the local mosque which he was attending in Saudi Arabia. It was there he was told the aggressors in Afghanistan were not Muslims.