Mohammad Lameen Sidi Mohammad

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Mohammad Lameen Sidi Mohammad (Arabic: محمد لمين سيدي محمد‎) is a citizen of Mauretania, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.^[1] His detainee ID number is 706. The Department of Defense reports that he was born on September 10, 1981, in Zandeer, Niger.

1 Combatant Status Review Tribunal
- 1.1 Allegations
- 1.2 Testimony
2 Administrative Review Board hearing
- 2.1 The following primary factors favor continued detention:
- 2.2 The following primary factors favor release or transfer:
3 References

[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.

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.

[edit] Allegations

During the winter and spring of 2005 the Department of Defense complied with a Freedom of Information Act request, and released five files that contained 507 memoranda which each summarized the allegations against a single detainee. These memos, entitled "Summary of Evidence" were prepared for the detainee's Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The detainee's names and ID numbers were redacted from all but one of these memos, when they were first released in 2005. But some of them contain notations in pen. 169 of the memos bear a hand-written notation specifying the detainee's ID number. One of the memos had a notation specifying Mohammed's detainee ID.^[2] The allegations he would have faced, during his Tribunal, were:

a. The detainee is associated with al Qaida:

Detainee traveled to Pakistan in support of a jihad against the United States and its coalition partners.
Detainee attempted to obtain forged documents in an effort to enter Afghanistan.
Detainee was captured in Pakistan as he attempted to cross the border into Afghanistan.
Detainee associated with an organization with known ties to the al Qaida organization, while living in a safe house.
This organization with known ties to al Qaida is designated as a foreign terrorist organization.
Detainee received training on an AK-47 Kalishnikov ^[sic] rifle while at a safehouse with ties to al Qaida.

[edit] Testimony

There is no record that Mohammed chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

[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 Mohammed 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

The detainee traveled to Pakistan in support of a Jihad against the United States.
The detainee attempted to obtain false identification in an effort to enter Afghanistan.
The detainee was captured in Pakistan as he attempted to cross the border into Afghanistan.

b. Training

The detainee learned how to field strip and fire an AK-47 assault rifle at a Lashkar Taiba ^[sic] safe house.

c. Connections/Associations

In a village located just outside Peshawar, the detainee and eight other fighters moved between four different Lashkar Taiba houses.
Lashkar e Tayyiba (LT) ("Army of the Righteous") is listed in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Terrorist Organization Reference Guide as a terrorist organization.
The detainee signed up for missionary work with Tagligi Jamiat (JT) to attain entry into Afghanistan.
The Jama'at Al Tablighi, a Pakistan based Islamic missionary organization is being used as a cover for action by Islamic Extremeists.

d. Intent

The detainee stated that he went to Afghanistan to fight the Americans.
The detainee decided to go on Jihad after becoming angered over the U.S. air attacks in Afghanistan. He felt it was his duty as a Muslim.

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

The detainee said never heard of al Qaida until after the 11 September 2001 attacks. He is only aware of the attacks on the World Trade Center; he believes the attacks were wrong, because Islam teaches that it is wrong to kill innocent women and children. He does not know anyone that is a member of al Qaida.
Detainee perceived Bin Laden as one of the Muslim people, who may have been right or may have been wrong as a human being. Detainee also felt that Bin Laden made many mistakes, such as the events of 11 September 2001, which cost the lives of many innocent people.