Tarek Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada

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Tarek Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada 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 178. American intelligence analysts estimate that Baada was born in 1976, in Shebwa, Yemen.

[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. Tarek Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada was one of those 169 detainees.^[2]

[edit] Allegations

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

The detainee and his group were positioned about 4km south of the front line in a place called Omar Saif, which was the third line area,
After the fall of Kabul, the detainee fled to the Tora Bora mountains.
The detainee was on guard duty with an AK-47 while in the Tora Bora Mountains.
The detainee was arrested by the Pakistani Army as he and others crossed the Pakistan border.

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

The detainee traveled to Afghanistan in June 2001, to train for Jihad.
The detainee attended the al Farouq training camp.
The detainee received training on the AK-47 and pistols while at the al Farouq camp.
The detainee was in Afghanistan on 11 September 2001.