Abdullah Saleh Ali Al Ajmi

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Abdullah Saleh Ali Al Ajmi is a Kuwaiti who was detained in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1]

On September 2, 2003 attorney Thomas Wilner filed a Petition for writ of Certiorari on behalf of Al Ajmi and eleven other Guantanamo detainees.[2]

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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 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.

Al Ajmi chose not to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

[edit] Allegations

The allegations against Al Ajmi were:

a. The detainee is a Taliban fighter:
  1. The detainee went AWOL from the Kuwaiti military in order to travel to Afghanistan to participate in the Jihad.
  2. The detainee was issued an AK-47, ammunition and hand grenades by the Taliban.
b. The detainee participated in military operations against the coalition.
  1. The detainee admitted he was in Afghanistan fighting with the Taliban in the Bagram area.
  2. The detainee was placed in a defensive position by the Taliban in order to block the Northern Alliance.
  3. The detainee admitted spending eight months on the front line at the Aiubi Center, AF. (sic)
  4. The detainee admitted engaging in two or three fire fights with the Northern Alliance.
  5. The detainee retreated to the Tora Bora region of AF and was later captured as he attempted to escape to Pakistan.

[edit] Release and Acquittal

Al Ajmi was repatriated to Kuwait, and taken into Kuwaiti custody on November 3, 2005.[3]

Al Ajmi was freed, on bail, while he awaited trial.[4] His trial began in March 2006, and he was acquittd on July 22, 2006.

[edit] References

  1. ^ documents (.pdf), from Abdullah Saleh Ali Al Ajmi, Combatant Status Review Tribunal
  2. ^ Petition for writ of Certiorari, Findlaw, September 2, 2003
  3. ^ Kuwaitis released from Guantanamo, BBC, November 3, 2005
  4. ^ Kuwait's Gitmo men acquitted - again, Kuwait Times, July 23, 2006
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