Ahmed Adil
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Ahmed Adil
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| Born: | 1973 (age 34–35) Kashgar, China |
| Detained at: | Guantanamo |
| ID number: | 260 |
| Conviction(s): | no charge, held in extrajudicial detention |
| Status | Transferred to a refugee camp in Albania. |
Ahmed Adil is a citizen of China, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] Adil's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 260. American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1973, in Kashgar, China.
Adil is one of approximately two dozen detainees from the Uyghur ethnic group.[2] Adil is one of approximately half a dozen Uyghurs whose Combatant Status Review Tribunals determined they were not enemy combatants after all.[3][4] Five of the Uyghurs were transferred to Albania.[5] Several others had new Tribunals convened that reversed the earlier determination.[6]
He is one of approximately two dozen Uyghur detainees accused of membership in the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement.[2]
Documents released in response to the writ of habeas corpus Hassan Anvar v. George W. Bush contained a December 30 2004 memo which provided one-paragraph biographies of 22 Uyghur captives, and asserted they were all caught at an "ETIM training camp".[7]
The brief biography of Ahmed Adil stated:
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- Ahmed Adil is a 31-year-old Chinese Citizen who is an ethnic Uighur from the Xinjiang province of China. Adil was last interviewed in the end of 2002. He has no reported incidents of violence in his discipline history. Adil is suspected as [sic] being a probable member of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM). He is suspected of having received training in an ETIM training camp in Afghanistan.
The information paper also identified him as "Ahnad Adil".
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[edit] Combatant Status Review
Initially the Bush administration asserted they could withhold the protections of the Geneva Conventions from captives in the War on Terror, while critics argued the Conventions obligated the United States to conduct competent tribunals to determine the status of prisoners. Subsequently the Department of Defense instituted Combatant Status Review Tribunals, to determine whether the captives met the new definition of an "enemy combatant".
From July 2004 through March 2005, a CSRT was convened to make a determination whether each captive had been correctly classified as an "enemy combatant". Ahmed Adil among the two-thirds of prisoners who chose to participate in their tribunals.[8]
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for the tribunal, listing the alleged facts that led to his detainment. Ahmed Adil's memo accused him of the following: [9]
- The detainee supported the Taliban against the United States and its coalition partners:
- The detainee traveled to Jalalabad, Afghanistan from Pakistan in 2001.
- The detainee went to Afghanistan in October 2001 to receive training.
- The detainee traveled from Jalalabad to a Uighur camp in the Tora Bora mountains and stayed there for approximately forty-five days.
- Uighur groups in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have formed ties with Al Qaeda and other Islamic terrorist groups and China’s two principal militant Uighur groups are the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) and the East Turkistan Liberation Organization (ETLO).
- The East Turkistan Islamic Movement is listed in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Terrorist Organization Reference Guide, as being one of the most militant groups, and has financial and training ties to Al Qaeda.
- While in the Tora Bora Mountains, the detainee learned how to “break down” the Kalashnikov.
- The detainee was in the Tora Bora mountains when the U.S. bombing campaign occurred.
- Pakistani soldiers, while fleeing Afghanistan into Pakistan, captured the detainee, along with other Uighurs and Arabs.
On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a six page summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[10]
[edit] Response to the allegations
- Adil confirmed he traveled to Jalalabad in 2001.
- Adil disputed that he traveled to Afghanistan for training. He said his eventual goal was to immigrate to a Western country.
- Adil disputed that Uyghurs would be associated with al Qaeda.
- Adil stated the Uyghur people looked to the USA for help easing the oppression they experienced from the Chinese.
- Adil stated he didn't understand al Qaeda'a motives:
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- I heard from you guys that most of the Al Qaeda people are Arabs. Those Arabs have their own country and they can live whereever they want in their own country. They are free to do whatever they want. I do not understand why they are causing trouble and making a mess for the world.
- I hear that those people have a little problem in their brain; it doesn't work properly.
- All of the Turkistani people's goals are clear and simple. All they want is to get our [sic] from the Chinese communist country and we want to live like any other country around the world. We want to live in peace, eat good, live good, dress good and be happy in peace.
- Adil denied being part of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement:
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- I'm hearing all of the accusations that I've been involved in this and that and it's new to me right now. I do not believe the accusations about the organizations and I also believe that the smart Uighur leaders know if they have associations with all of those terrorist organizations, which are against the whole peaceful world, then the whole world would be against us. They would understand that if we had ties with them that our goals will disappear and will never happen.
- Adil confirmed he agreed to be shown how to use the AK-47 -- in case there was an armed struggle between the Chinese and the Uyghurs.
- Adil described his group crossing over into Pakistan, being welcomed in a Pakistani border village, only to be handed over to Pakistani authorities.[11]
[edit] Response to Board questioning
- Adil said he never traveled anywhere in Afghanistan, beyond the Uyghur camp.
- He was taken to the camp by A Uyghur he met in Jalalabad named Abdul Wahab. He had been given his name by a Uyghur in Pakistan.
- Adil said he was shown how to use the camp's rifle, a couple of times, but didn't see it afterwards, and the Uyghurs did not take it with them as they fled the American bombing.
[edit] Letter to the Secretary of State
Adil wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on January 19, 2006.[12] In it he wrote that his Tribunal determined he was innocent on May 9, 2005. He said he was appealing directly to Rice because he had tried all other options.
[edit] Asylum in Albania
On May 5, 2006 the Department of Defense announced that they had transferred five Uyghurs who had been determined not to have been enemy combatants, to Albania.[13] Seventeen other Uyghurs continue to be held at Guantanamo, because their CSRTs determined they were enemy combatants.
[edit] References
- ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
- ^ a b China's Uighurs trapped at Guantanamo, Asia Times, November 4, 2004
- ^ Guantanamo Bay Detainees Classifed as "No Longer Enemy Combatants", Washington Post
- ^ "Detainees Found to No Longer Meet the Definition of "Enemy Combatant" during Combatant Status Review Tribunals Held at Guantanamo", United States Department of Defense, November 19, 2007. Retrieved on 2008-04-15.
- ^ "Albanian fix for Guantanamo Dilemma", BBC, January 11, 2007. Retrieved on 2008-04-25.
- ^ Mark Denbeaux, Joshua Denbeaux, David Gratz, John Gregorek, Matthew Darby, Shana Edwards, Shane Hartman, Daniel Mann, Megan Sassaman and Helen Skinner. No-hearing hearings. Seton Hall University School of Law. Retrieved on April 2, 2007.
- ^ Department of Defense, Information paper: Uighur Detainee Population at JTF-GTMO, December 30, 2004
- ^ OARDEC, Index to Transcripts of Detainee Testimony and Documents Submitted by Detainees at Combatant Status Review Tribunals Held at Guantanamo Between July 2004 and March 2005, September 4, 2007
- ^ OARDEC (9 November 2004). Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Adil, Ahmed pages 95-96. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-12-19.
- ^ "US releases Guantanamo files", The Age, April 4, 2006. Retrieved on 2008-03-15.
- ^ OARDEC (date redacted). Summarized Statement pages 56-61. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2008-04-23.
- ^ Letter to Condoleezza Rice, January 19, 2006
- ^ Albania accepts Chinese Guantanamo detainees, Washington Post, May 5, 2006
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