Abdul Rahman Abdullah Mohamed Juma Kahm

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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 his 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.
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 his 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.
The caption to this poster, distributed by the CIA in Afghanistan, reads: “You can receive millions of dollars for helping the Anti-Taliban Force catch Al-Qaida and Taliban murderers. This enough money to take care of your family, your village, your tribe for the rest of your life. Pay for livestock and doctors and school books and housing for all your people."
The caption to this poster, distributed by the CIA in Afghanistan, reads: “You can receive millions of dollars for helping the Anti-Taliban Force catch Al-Qaida and Taliban murderers. This enough money to take care of your family, your village, your tribe for the rest of your life. Pay for livestock and doctors and school books and housing for all your people."

Abdul Rahman Abdullah Mohamed Juma Kahm (Arabic: عبد الرحمن عبدالله محمد جما خان) is a citizen of Afghanistan, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] Kahm's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 118. American intelligence analysts estimate Kahm was born in 1969, in Fara, Afghanistan.

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[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions from 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.

Kahm chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[2]

[edit] Testimony

Kahm's transcript did not repeat the allegations against Kahm.

He started with the following statement:

"I have evidence I am not an enemy combatant, I was taken by force. I joined the Taliban by force not by choice. Everyone in Afghanistan knows if the Taliban asks you to go with them you cannot say no. The Taliban were fighting against two Generals and they were recruiting people from all over the country. They wanted people to help fight and they took me by force. Our area was under Taliban control, so we could not fight them. We were so poor I could not move my family, that’s why I stayed in the area. The Taliban were there taking things from people, taking money, they were there by foce. That is all I am going to say, I said it under oath and it is the truth.[2]"

In answer to questions Kahm testified that he was under continuous guard after his forcible conscription, and that he expected he would have been shot if he tried to escape.

Prior to his conscription he had once been given four days of training on the AK47.

[edit] Repatriation and Release

The New York Times reported that a 38 year old Afghani captive named "Abdul Rahman" was repatriated to Afghanistan with six other Afghans on December 16, 2006.[3][4][5] The men were released the next day. The story reported:

"'The Taliban sent me there by force as they made every family provide one fighter or give money instead,' he said.
"He said he had been taken into custody in the city of Kunduz, held in the town of Sheberghan, and then 'sold' to Americans."

[edit] References

  1. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
  2. ^ a b Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdul Rahman Abdullah Mohamed Juma Kahm'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 34-37
  3. ^ Abdul Waheed Wafa, Freed From Guantánamo Bay, 7 Afghans Arrive in Kabul, New York Times, December 17, 2006
  4. ^ Abdul Waheed Wafa, 7 Afghans free after 5 years at Guantánamo, International Herald Tribune, December 17, 2006
  5. ^ Seven home from Guantanamo, Taipei Times, December 17, 2006
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