Ali Ahmad Muhammad Al Rahizi

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Ali Ahmad Muhammad Al Rahizi is a citizen of Yemen held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] Al Rahizi's Guantanamo detainee ID is 45. He was born on October 13, 1979, in Ta'iz, Yemen.

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[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Combatant Status Review Tribunal notice read to a Guantanamo captive. During the period July 2004 through March 2005 a Combatant Status Review Tribunal was convened to make a determination whether they had been correctly classified as an "enemy combatant". Participation was optional. The Department of Defense reports that 317 of the 558 captives who remained in Guantanamo, in military custody, attended their Tribunals.
Combatant Status Review Tribunal notice read to a Guantanamo captive. During the period July 2004 through March 2005 a Combatant Status Review Tribunal was convened to make a determination whether they had been correctly classified as an "enemy combatant". Participation was optional. The Department of Defense reports that 317 of the 558 captives who remained in Guantanamo, in military custody, attended their Tribunals.

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 Rahizi chose not to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

[edit] allegations

The allegations against Al Rezehi were:[2]

a. The detainee is a member of al Qaida:
  1. The detainee has been identified as a bodyguard for Usama Bin Laden.
b.The detainee supported military operations against the United States or its coalition partners.
  1. Detainee was the Amir at the “small mudafah in Kandahar.”
  2. The mudafah in Kandaher billeted fighters pending further training or operational assignment.
  3. The mudafah was operated by the Operations and Logistics element of al Qaida

[edit] Administrative Review Board hearing

Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings. The Administrative Review Boards weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".

They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat -- or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free.

The factors for and against continuing to detain Al Rahizi were among the 121 that the Department of Defense released on March 3, 2006.[3]

[edit] The following primary factors favor continued detention:

a. Commitment
  1. The detainee was the Amir at the "small mudafah in Kandahar."
  2. The mudafah in Kandahar billeted fighters pending further training or operational assignment.
  3. The mudafah was operated by the Operations and Logistics elements of al Qaida.
  4. The detainee met Ali al Adeni in a discussion group held at the Jama al Dawa mosque in Taaz, Yemen.
  5. Ali al Adeni was known for spreading support for jihad.
  6. The detainee gave his passport to Ali al Adeni, who returned his same passport to the detainee along with a Pakistani visa.
  7. The detainee is a Sunni Muslim and agrees with the Taliban government where the Islamic law codes are enforced.
  8. The detainee was captured on 15 December 2001, with thirty suspected al Qaida members.
b. Training
  1. The detainee was identified at al Farouq in May 2000; he was in the Teknek group led by Hamza al Zubair.
  2. Hamza al Zubair was the primary liaison between Khalid Shaykh Muhammad and Hasan ba Attash al-Dini.
c. Connections/Associations
  1. The detainee has been identified as a bodyguard for Usama Bin Laden.

[edit] The following primary factors favor release or transfer:

  • The detainee claims to have been in Afghanistan as a religious missionary.
  • The detainee stated he was unaware of any Taliban activity in the village of Showradab, Afghanistan where he taught the Koran to 18 people.
  • The detainee denied staying at a guesthouse in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
  • The detainee denied any knowledge of the attacks in the United States prior to their execution on September 11, 2001.
  • The detainee denied knowledge of any rumors or plans of future attacks on the United States or United States interests.
  • The detainee denied knowledge of the planning of internal uprisings at the Guantanamo detention facility.
  • The detainee stated he did not know Usama Bin Laden.
  • The detainee believes the investigators have him mixed up with someone else.

[edit] References

  1. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
  2. ^ documents (.pdf) from Ali Ahmad Muhammad Al Rahizi's Combatant Status Review Tribunal
  3. ^ Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf) of Ali Ahmad Muhammad Al Rahizi Administrative Review Board - page 38
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