Muhammed Ijaz Khan

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Muhammed Ijaz Khan is a citizen of Pakistan, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1] His detainee ID number is 17.

1 Identity
2 Combatant Status Review Tribunal
3 References

[edit] Identity

During his Tribunal, on March 9, 2007, Abu Faraj al-Libbi was referred to as "detainee 17". Al-Libbi's actual ID number is 10017.

[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

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.

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

[edit] Khan's transcript

Khan's transcript is very brief.

[edit] Statement

Khan acknowledged that he traveled to Afghanistan to fight the Jihad.
Khan never received any military training.
Khan was not issued his own AK-47, but he acknowledged carrying one on the two or three times he was on guard duty.
Khan said there was no fighting in the Konduz area, the area where he was stationed, so he did not actually engage in hostilities.

[edit] Allegations

Unlike most of the transcripts from captive's Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Khan's does not include the allegations he faced.

[edit] Response to Tribunals questions

Khan didn't know that the USA had entered the war until they were bombed by US planes.
Khan testified he traveled from Pakistan by himself.
Khan testified he never received military training.
Khan traveled from Kabul to Konduz in pickup trucks with men he didn't know.
Khan testified: "I didn't have any relations with the Taliban, now or ever."
Khan testified he didn't realize that the Northern Alliance was also composed of Muslims.
Khan acknowledged traveling to Afghanistan to fight in the Jihad. He did not have an AK-47 assigned to him, but he was issued one on the two or three occasions he had guard duty.
Khan said he had never told his interrogators he would try to engage in Jihad again, if he were released.