Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz

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Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz is a citizen of Mauritanian, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.^[1] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 757. Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts report that he was born on February 24, 1970, Atar, Mauritania.

[edit] Identity

Captive 757's name was spelled incosistently on various official documents released by the United States Department of Defense.

• Captive 757 is called Ahmed Abdel Aziz on the official list of all Guantanamo captives, released on May 15, 2006.^[1]
• Captive 757 is called Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz on the official list of captives whose earlier determination as an "enemy combatants" was reconsiderd by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal]], and on various official memos and lists released in September of 2007.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]}
• Captive 757 is called Akhmed Aziz on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his second annual Administrative Review Board on September 20, 2006.^[8]

[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.

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 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 Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 1 November 2004.^[3] There were 23 allegations listed on Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz's Summary of Evidence memo, including:

• That he traveled to Afghanistan in 1999.
• That he attended the celebration of al-Zawahiri joining al Qaida.
• That he fought for the Taliban.
• That he stayed at al Qaeda guest houses in Kabul and Jalalabad.
• That he trained at Afghan military camps.
• Thae he had spoken with Usama bin Ladin, and attended his son's wedding.
• That someone from al Qaeda arranged a wedding for him.

[edit] Transcript

There is no record that captive 757 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".^[9]

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. XXX chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.

[edit] First annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for captive 757's first annual Administrative Review Board, on November 8, 2005.^[4]

[edit] Second annual Administrative Review Board

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Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Aziz, Akhmed (2006-09-20)

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for captive 757's second annual Administrative Review Board, on September 20, 2006.^[8] Captive 757's was named Akhmed Aziz on this memo -- a name inconsistent with all the other documents released by the DoD.

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} list of prisoners, US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
2. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, April 20, 2006
3. ^ ^{a b} OARDEC (November 1, 2004). Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Aziz, Ahmed Ould Abdel pages 100-101. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-10-10.
4. ^ ^{a b} OARDEC (November 8, 2005). Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Aziz, Ahmed Ould Abdel pages 60-61. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-10-10.
5. ^ OARDEC (July 17, 2007). Index for Combatant Status Review Board unclassified summaries of evidence. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
6. ^ OARDEC (August 9, 2007). Index to Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round One. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
7. ^ OARDEC (July 17, 2007). Index of Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round Two. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
8. ^ ^{a b} OARDEC (September 20, 2006). Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Aziz, Akhmed pages 6-9. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-10-10.
9. ^ (Spc Timothy Book. "Review process unprecedented", The Wire (JTF-GTMO), Friday March 10, 2006, pp. 1. Retrieved on 2007-10-12.