Abu Bakr Ibn Ali Muhhammad Alahdal

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Abu Bakr Ibn Ali Muhhammad Alahdal 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 171. American intelligence analysts estimate that Alahdal was born in 1979, in Al Hudaydah, 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. Abu Bakr Ibn Ali Muhhammad Alahdal was one of those 169 detainees.^[2]

[edit] Allegations

a. The detainee is an al Qaida operative:

The detainee traveled from Saudi Arabia to Afghanistan via Pakistan.
The detainee stayed for one week in a known safehouse in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
The detainee stayed at Nejim Al-Jihad, a known terrorist organization housing compound owned by Usama Bin Ladin.

b. The detainee participated in military operations against the coalition:

The detainee received small arms training at the al Farouq training camp.
The detainee was listed on a computer hard drive used by suspected al Qaida members captured by Allied personnel in a suspected al Qaida safehouses in Pakistan.