Majid Abdallah Husayn Muhammad Al Samluli Al Harbi

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Majid Abdallah Husayn Muhammad Al Samluli Al Harbi is a citizen of Saudi Arabia who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1] His Guantanamo detainee ID number is 158. The Department of Defense reports he was born on June 28, 1980, in Jedda, Saudi Arabia.

[edit] Identity

A Saudi named Majed Abdullah Hussein Al-Harbi was one of seven repatriated on February 22, 2007.^[2][3]

[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.

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.

There is no record that Majed al-Harbi chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

According to the Department of Defense all the cpatives who were held in military custody in the camp, between July 2004 and March 2005 had their status considered by a CSRT.

[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.

There is no record that Majed al-Harbi chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.

[edit] Repatriation and Saudi detention

Al-Harbi and the other six men were detained in Hayer Prison.^[4] The newspaper Al-Madinah quoted Majed Al-Harbi: “I feel like having ^[sic] reborn when I landed in the Kingdom,”

Al-Harbi and the other men were allowed to meet with their families.^[4]

[edit] References

1. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
2. ^ Seven Saudi Guantanamo detainees return to the Kingdom. Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia Washington DC (February 21, 2007). Retrieved on March 3, 2007.
3. ^ "Saudi terror suspects go home", United Press International, February 22, 2007. Retrieved on March 3.
4. ^ ^{a b} P.K. Abdul Ghafour. "Families Meet With Gitmo Returnees", Arab News, Saturday, February 24, 2007. Retrieved on March 3.