Muhammed Yahia Mosin Al Zayla
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Muhammed Yahia Mosin Al Zayla is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.[1] Al Zayla's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 055. The Department of Defense reports that Al Zayla was born on July 25, 1977, in Medina, Saudi Arabia.
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[edit] Identity
When he was repatriated to Saudi Arabia in December 2006 his brother Mohsen al-Zaylaei said that the USA had been transliterating their name incorrectly, as Al Zayla., not Al-Zaylaei.[2]
[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.
Al Zayla chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[3]
[edit] allegations
The allegations Al Zayla faced during his Tribunal were:[3]
- a. Association
- Detainee traveled from his home in Saudi Arabia to Afghanistan via Kuwait and Pakistan in March 2001.
- Detainee received training in the use of AK-47 and rocket propelled grenades at the Al-Farouq training camp.
- b. Hostile activity
- Detainee voluntarily left the training base at Al-Farouq to engage in military operations against the Northern Alliance.
- Detainee carried a weapon on the battlefield.
- Detainee continued to participated in military operations against United States forces [sic] after September 11, 2001.
- Detainee retreated from the battlefield to Pakistan where he surrendered, as part of a group of thirty individuals, to Pakistani forces.
[edit] testimony
[edit] Repatriation and Release
Al Zaylaei was repatriated to Saudi Arabia in early December of 2006.[2] His brother Mohsen said his family was committed to finding Muhammed a wife, because so many of his letters had contained the wish that he get married and return to a normal life.
[edit] References
- ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
- ^ a b "16 Saudis released from Guantanamo arrive home, are immediately detained", WHDH, December 14, 2006. Retrieved on January 7, 2007.
- ^ a b Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Muhammed Yahia Mosin Al Zayla's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 9-18