Othman Ahmad Othman al-Ghamdi

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Othman Ahmed Othman Al Omairah (also transliterated as Othman Ahmad Othman al-Ghamdi) is a citizen of either Yemen or Saudi Arabia, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1] American counter-terror analysts estimate al-Ghamdi was born in 1973, in Shabwa, Yemen.

1 Identity
2 Combatant Status Review Tribunal
3 Administrative Review Board hearing
4 Guantanamo record
5 Transfer to Saudi Arabia
6 References

[edit] Identity

Guantanamo captive 184 was listed on the list released on May 15, 2006.^[1] The US Department of Defense reported that the he was born in 1973, in Shabwa, Yemen. The DoD reported that he was a citizen of Yemen. But, on June 25, 2006, the USA repatriated 14 men to Saudi Arabia, including a man named Othman Ahmad Othman al-Ghamdi.

[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 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.

[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.

[edit] Guantanamo record

There is no record that Othman Ahmad Othman al-Ghamdi chose to attend either his Combatant Status Review Tribunal or his Administrative Review Board hearing.

[edit] Transfer to Saudi Arabia

On June 25, 2006 14 men were transferred from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia.^[2] A Saudi identified as Othman Ahmad Othman al-Ghamdi was identified as one of the released men.