Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi

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Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 030. American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1972, in Ta'iz, Yemen.

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[edit] Identity

American intelligence analysts spelled al Hikimi's name differently on the two official lists of names the Department of Defense has released:

[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

CSRT notice read to a Guantanamo captive.
CSRT notice read to a Guantanamo captive.

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. Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi was one of those 169 detainees.[3]

[edit] Allegations

a. The detainee is associated with al Qaida and the Taliban:
  1. The detainee's name along with other personal property infomrations was found on a list recovered during raids against al Qaida associated safe houses.
  2. The detainee was identified as an al Qaida associate.
  3. The detainee fought on the front lines with the Taliban abainst the Northern Alliance (prior to 2001).
  4. The detainee was a driver on the Taliban front lines, for some time during the period of late 1999 through early 2000.
b. The detainee participated in military operations against the United States or its coalition partners.
  1. The detainee was in Tora Bora and left the region with 30 other suspected al Qaida members.
  2. The detainee was captured while trying to cross into Pakistan from Afghanistan on 15 December 2001, with 30 other suspected al Qaida members.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
  2. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, April 20, 2006
  3. ^ Summary of Evidence memo (.pdf) prepared for Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - October 6, 2004 - page 186
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