Ahmed Hassan Jamil Suleyman

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Ahmed Hassan Jamil Suleyman

is a citizen of Jordan held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo detainee ID number is 662. The Department of Defense reports that he was born on June 4, 1961, in Aman [sic] Jordan.

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[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 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. Ahmed Hassan Jamil Suleyman was one of those 169 detainees.[2]

[edit] Allegations

a. The detainee is a member of al Qaida and associated with the Taliban:
  1. The detainee reportedly is a senior commander and trainer of al Qaida, with contacts to Usama Bin Laden, Sheikh Al-Liby [sic] , and Abu Zubaida [sic] .
  2. The detainee attended a class on the AK-47 rifle in Khowst, Afghanistan.
  3. The detainee was arrested carrying a letter with the name of a senior al Qaida member and aide to Usama Bin Laden written at the top.
  4. The detainee is a member of the Maktab al-Khidmat.
  5. The detainee is associated with Jammaa al Tableegh [sic] (JT).
  6. Many al Qaida operatives joined the religious organization Jama'at al-Tabligh [sic] in order to travel to Europe in the guise of Islamic missionaries.

[edit] Testimony

There is no record that Suleyman chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

[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".[3]

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.

The factors for and against continuing to detain Ahmed Hassan Jamil Suleyman were among the 121 that the Department of Defense released on March 3, 2006.[4]

[edit] The following primary factors favor continued detention:

a. Commitment
  1. The detainee is a member of the Maktab al-Khidmat.
  2. The detainee is associated with Jamaa al Tableegh (JT) [sic] .
  3. Maktab al-Khidmat is a Terrorist Exclusion List designee.
  4. Jamat al Tabligh [sic] , a Pakistani-based Islamic missionary organization, is being used as a cover to mask travel and activities of terrorist including members of al Qaida.
b. Training
  1. The detainee attended a class on the AK-47 rifle in Khowst, Afghanistan.
  2. The detainee reportedly is a senior commander and trainer of al Qaida, with contacts to Usama Bin Laden, Sheikh Al-Liby, and Abu Zubaida.
  3. The detainee was at Khalden Camp between May 1994 and 1999.
c. Connection/Associations
  1. The detainee was arrested carrying a letter with the name of a senior al Qaida member and aide to Usama Bin Laden written at the top.
  2. The detainee’s father-in-law is known as an al Qaeda supporter and former employee of a construction company owned by Usama Bin Laden.
  3. The detainee occasionally would perform volunteer work with the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO.)
  4. The IIRO has connections to terrorist organizations and has channeled funds to Islamic extremists from Afghanistan.
  5. The detainee said he traveled to Saudi Arabia several times.
d. Other relevant data
Detainee has nine documented instances of spitting on guards, interpreters, visiting officers and other detainees; three instances of throwing toilet water and unknown liquids on guards; and two instances of violent behavior towards guards by slamming the bean hole on guard’s hands. On one occasion the detainee threatened to kill the guard, and on two occasions, the detainee sang songs about killing Americans.

[edit] The following primary factors favor release of transfer:

  • The detainee said what happened on September 11 was terrible and he condemned UBL’s actions.
  • The detainee said that he traveled to Saudi Arabia to visit religious places.

[edit] Transcript

A summarized transcript of Ahmed Hassan Jamil Suleyman's Administrative Review Board was released.[5]

[edit] Response to the factors

Ahmed Hassan Jamil Suleyman's Assisting Military Officer read responses to the factors that had been prepared during the pre=hearing interview.

  • Ahmed Hassan Jamil Suleyman denied knowing anything about Maktab Al-Mukhabarat. He claimed he worked in a relief organization
  • Ahmed Hassan Jamil Suleyman acknowledged participating in the Tablighi Jamaat movement.
Further information: Allegations that Tablighi Jamaat has ties to terrorism
  • Ahmed Hassan Jamil Suleyman claimed he had never fired an AK-47.
  • Ahmed Hassan Jamil Suleyman claimed he had never been in Afghanistan. All his relief work had been on the Pakistani side of the border.
  • Ahmed Hassan Jamil Suleyman denied being a senior commander for al Qaida, denied being a trainer for al Qaida, denied contact with Osama bin Laden or any other member of al Qaida.
  • Ahmed Hassan Jamil Suleyman denied being captured in Kandahar. Said he was captured in Peshawar, Pakistan.
  • Ahmed Hassan Jamil Suleyman denied that his father-in-law was an al Qaeda supporter, or had any ties with Osama bin Laden. He said: "My father-in-law is a modest man. He is approximately eighty years old and lives in Pakistan."
  • Ahmed Hassan Jamil Suleyman acknowledged working for the IIRO, but full time, not part time. He said: "This organization helps poor people, immigrants and orphans and feeds people during Ramadan and Eid Al-Adha.
  • In response to the allegation that he spit on guards Ahmed Hassan Jamil Suleyman replied:

I only spit at the guard after he spit at me and I never tfircw any water or fluids. This guard was spitting in front of detainees taking a shower and had many complaints about him. The guards record a lot of information about the detainees that is not true. It is personal revenge. I never slammed the door on the guard's arm.

The notes Ahmed Hassan Jamil Suleyman's Assisting Military Officer read out concluded with the statement:

In summary, people accuse me of things I did not do. I'm a person who was living in Peshawar, Pakistan. I had my job and I had my Idds and mey grabbed me from Pakistan. Are all people terrorists to you? If America respects human rights, why are you killing innocent children and not the terrorists you are after? Our religion is truthful without a doubt, and Islam, the religion of Allah the Great the Almighty, is the one that truly wants human rights. And in closing the Detainee would like to make a request to the board. The Detainee requests books in his cell.

[edit] References

  1. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
  2. ^ Summary of Evidence memo (.pdf) prepared for Ahmed Hassan Jamil Suleyman's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - September 28, 2004 - page 189
  3. ^ (Spc Timothy Book. "Review process unprecedented", The Wire (JTF-GTMO), Friday March 10, 2006, pp. 1. Retrieved on 2007-10-12. 
  4. ^ Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf) of Ahmed Hassan Jamil Suleyman Administrative Review Board - page 45
  5. ^ Summarized transcript (.pdf), from Ahmed Hassan Jamil Suleyman's Administrative Review Board hearing - pages 175-186