Ravil Mingazov

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Ravil Mingazov is a citizen of Russia, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1] His detainee ID number is 702. The Department of Defense reports that Mingazov was born on December 5, 1967, in Bolsheretski, Russia.

[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 Tribunal. 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.

To comply with a Freedom of Information Act request, during the winter and spring of 2005, the Department of Defense released 507 memoranda. Those 507 memoranda each contained the allegations against a single detainee, prepared for their Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The detainee's name and ID numbers were redacted from all but one of the memoranda. However 169 of the memoranda had the detainee's ID hand-written on the top right hand of the first page corner. When the Department of Defense complied with a court order, and released official lists of the detainee's names and ID numbers it was possible to identify who those 169 were written about. Ravil Mingazov was one of those 169 detainees.^[2]

[edit] Allegations

a. The detainee is associated with al Qaida:

The detainee is ###### ###### ###### ###### who voluntarily traveled to Afghanistan via Dushanbe, Tajikistan through Kunduz, Afghanistan; to Mazir-E-Sharif, Afghanistan; to Kabul, Afghanistan; and finally to Kandahar, Afghanistan in February 2000.
The detainee was in the training camp of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which was located in Mazir-E-Sharif, Afghanistan.
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan is a known terrorist group.
The detainee received training at the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan training camp on infantry equipment and how to make and use explosives.
The detainee was at the al Farouq camp and was trained on explosives, chemicals, pistols and rifles plus assassination methods. He also trained on how to make poisons at the Kara Karga camp outside of Kabul.
The detainee observed Usama Bin Laden while at the training camp and listened to his speeches on politics and religion.
The detainee was at the al Farouq camp on 11 September 2001.
The detainee fled Afghanistan following the U.S. bombing campaign and was arrested by Pakistani police in a safehouse in Faisalabad, Pakistan, approximately four months later.