Ahmed Mohamed

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Ahmed Mohamed is a citizen of China, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.[1] His detainee ID number is 328. Intelligence analysts report that Mohamad was born on May 1, 1978 in Atush, China.

Mohamed is one of approximately two dozen detainees from the Uighur ethnic group.

Main article: Uighur detainees in Guantanamo

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[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

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.

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 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.

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

[edit] allegations

The allegations Mohamed faced during his Tribunal were:

a. -- The general summary of the allegations that establish an association with terrorism were missing from the transcript. --
  1. The detainee traveled to Afghanistan via Pakistan to receive training at a Uighur training camp in Tora Bora.
  2. The detainee arrived at the Uighur Tora Bora training camp in November 2000.
  3. The detainee received training on pistols, AK-47, and two types of rifles while at the Uighur Tora Bora training camp.
  4. The detainee was a weapons instructor from May 2001-October 2001.
  5. The detainee was at the Uighur Tora Bora training camp when it was bombed by US/coalition forces in October, 2001.
  6. The detainee evaded in the Tora Bora Mountains before being captured by Pakistani Security Forces along with a group of other Uighur fighters.

[edit] testimony of Sabel Khan [sic]

Mohamed called another Uighur detainee, who is identified in the transcript as Sabel Khan [sic]. Mohamed asked his witness to testify that he had not served as a weapons instructor.

[edit] References

  1. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
  2. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Ahmed Mohamed'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 22-30
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