Abdulla Majid Al Naimi

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Abdulla Majid Al Naimi
Born: March 9, 1982 (1982-03-09) (age 26)
Flag of Bahrain - Manama, Bahrain
Detained at: Guantanamo
Alias(s): Abdullah al Noaimi,
Abdullah Majed Sayyah Hasan Alnoaimi
ID number: 159
Alleged to be a member of: al-Qaeda
Conviction(s): no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
Status Released as of November 5, 2005

Abdulla Majid Al Naimi (also transliterated as Abdullah al Noaimi) is a Bahraini, formerly held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 159. The Department of Defense reports he was born on March 9, 1982, in Banama, Bahrain.

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[edit] Identity

Captive 159 was identified inconsistently on official Department of Defense documents:

  • Captive 159 was identified as Abdullah al Noaimi on the official list of captives' names published on May 15, 2006.[1]
  • Captive 159 was identified as Abdullah Majed Sayyah Hasan Alnoaimi on the official list of captives whose habeas corpus petitions should be dismissed following their transfer from US custody.[2]

[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.
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 tribunal 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] Summary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Abdullah Al Noaimi's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 2 September 2004.[3] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

a. The detainee is a Taliban fighter:
  1. The detainee is a Bahrain citizen who admitted he traveled from Bahrain through Meshad [sic] , Iran to Afghanistan on September 13, 2001.
  2. Detainee traveled to Afghanistan to fight for the Taliban and die in Jihad.
  3. Detainee knew he would be fighting the Northern Alliance and the United States.
  4. Upon arriving in Afghanistan detainee requested and received directions from a Taliban representative to an office/guesthouse in Kabul, Afghanistan.
  5. At the Taliban office, the detainee introduced himself and told the Taliban representative that he had come to fight.
  6. After November 2001 the detainee along with four other Arabs and two Afghanis, were guided to the Pakistani border where he was arrested by Pakistan border guards, taken to jail, and later turned over to United States forces in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

[edit] Transcript

There is no record that Abdullah Al Naimi participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

[edit] Witness statements

The documents the Department of Defense released include two statements.[4] If his Board considered these witness statements then it was redacted from their recommendations.

One statement was from Mohammed Salman Al-Khalifa, a cousin of Salman Al Khalifa, a member of the Bahrain royal family. It states since Abdullah Al Noaimi was a childhood friend of Salman Al Khalifa he was asked to travel to Pakistan and Afghanistan to look for him, when he went missing, in August 2001.

The other statement is from Mohamad Suleiman Alkaleifa, a childhood friend who testifies to his good character, and lack of interest in politics.

Both statements are dated November 11, 2004.

[edit] Abdullah AL Noaimi v. George Walker Bush

A writ of habeas corpus was submitted on Abdullah Al Noaimi's behalf.[5] The Department of Defense released a dossier of 24 pages of documents arising from his CSR Tribunal on 9 December 2004.

[edit] Administrative Review Board hearing

Hearing room where Guantanamo captive's annual Administrative Review Board hearings convened for captives whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal had already determined they were an "enemy combatant".
Hearing room where Guantanamo captive's annual Administrative Review Board hearings convened for captives whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal had already determined they were an "enemy combatant".[6]

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] Summary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Abdullah Al Noaimi's Administrative Review Board, on 1 July 2005.[7] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

[edit] Transcript

There is no record that Abdullah Al Noaimi participated in his Board hearing.

[edit] Board recommendations

In early September 2007 the Department of Defense released two heavily redacted memos, from his Board, to Gordon England, the Designated Civilian Official.[8][9] The Board's recommendation was unanimous The Board's recommendation was redacted. England authorized his transfer on 4 October 2005.

[edit] Release

The Gulf Daily News announced on November 5, 2005 that Abdulla had been released, and was one of three Bahraini detainees on their way home. [10]

Bahraini Member of Parliament Mohammed Khalid had called for the Bahrain government to provide financial compensation to the released men.[11]

[edit] Comments on the June 10, 2006 suicides

The deaths of three detainees were announced on June 10, 2006.

Main article: Guantanamo suicide attempts

Al Naimi knew the three men, and commented on their deaths on June 25, 2006. [12] Al Naimi said that Mani Al-Utaybi and Ali Abdullah Ahmed were captured while studying in Pakistan. He said that they were interrogated for only a brief time after their arrival in Guantanamo, and their interrogators had told them they were not regarded as a threat, and that they could expect to be released.

"The interrogations dealt with them only during the first month of their detention. For more than a year before I left Guantanamo in November 2005, they were left alone. But they were still held in bad conditions in the camp by the guards,"

Al Naimi said that the third dead man, Yasser Talal Al Zahrani, was only 16 when he was captured.[12] According to Al Naimi Al Zahrani should have been treated as a minor.

"He was 21 when he died, barely the legal age in most countries, and was merely 16 when he was picked up four and half years ago. His age shows that he is not even supposed to be taken to a police office; he should have been turned over to the underage [juvenile] authorities."

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b OARDEC (May 15, 2006). List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
  2. ^ "Exhibit B: List Of Enemy Combatant Detainees With Pending Habeas Corpus Petitions Who Have Been Released From United States Custody", United States Department of Justice, April 17, 2007. Retrieved on 2008-05-05. 
  3. ^ OARDEC (2 September 2004). Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Al Noaimi, Abdullah page 61. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-12-04.
  4. ^ OARDEC (November 11, 2004). Summary of Administrative Review Board Proceedings of ISN pages 172-174. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-12-05.
  5. ^ OARDEC (9 December 2004). Abdullah AL Noaimi v. George Walker Bush pages 1-24. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-12-05.
  6. ^ Spc Timothy Book. "Review process unprecedented", JTF-GTMO Public Affairs Office, Friday March 10, 2006, pp. pg 1. Retrieved on 2007-10-10. 
  7. ^ OARDEC (1 July 2005). Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Noaimi, Abdullah page 85-86. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-12-05.
  8. ^ OARDEC (4 October 2005). Administrative Review Board assessment and recommendation ICO ISN 159 page 38. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-12-05.
  9. ^ OARDEC (26 July 2005). Classified Record of Proceedings and basis of Administrative Review Board recommendation for ISN 159 pages 39-45. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-12-05.
  10. ^ Free at last!, Gulf Daily News, November 5, 2005
  11. ^ Geoffrey Bew. "Bay victims may get BD50,000", Gulf Daily News, August 23, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-08-23. 
  12. ^ a b Ex-detainee disputes triple suicide report, Gulf Daily News, June 25, 2006


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