Salem Ahmed Hadi

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Salem Ahmed Hadi is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1] His detainee ID number is 131. The Department of Defense reports that Hadi was born on January 15, 1976, in Hadramaut, Yemen.

1 Identity
2 Combatant Status Review Tribunal
- 2.1 Allegations
3 References

[edit] Identity

The Department of Defense released a list of the 558 detainees whose cases had been processed by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on April 20, 2006.^[2] On that list detainee 131's name was spelled Salem Ahmed Ben Kend. On the list of all 759 detainees who had been in military custody at Guantanamo, released on May 15, 2006, detainee 131's name was listed as Salem Ahmed Hadi.^[1]

[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 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. Salem Ahmed Hadi was one of those 169 detainees.^[3]

[edit] Allegations

a. The detainee is a member of al Qaida or the Taliban:

The detainee traveled from his home ######### to Afghanistan.
The detainee voluntarily went to Afghanistan for Jihad.
The detainee fought with the Taliban in Kabul and Kandahar from July to December 2001.
The detainee was issued his weapon, a Kalashnikov rifle, from a distribution center, one day before he was sent to the front line.
The detainee was in Afghanistan on 11 September 2001.

b. The detainee participated in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners.

The detainee spent his first four months stationed on the second line which was approximately two to three kilometers behind the front lines.
The detainee was sent north to the front lines and fought against the Northern Alliance.
The detainee was wounded by the Northern Alliance.
The detainee was captured at Mazar-e-Sharif.