Al Qaida guest house, Kabul

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American counter-terrorism analysts justified the continued extrajudicial detention of many Guantanamo captives because they were suspected of staying in Al-Qaeda safe houses, or guest houses -- or because names matching theirs, or their "known alias were found in the suspect houses..

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[edit] Managers of suspect guest houses

Some Guantanamo captives were alleged to have managed guest houses or safe houses on behalf of the Taliban, al Qaeda, or other organizations American counter-terrorism analysts asserted had ties to terrorism.

isn name allegations
Hassan Maksum
330

Maasoum Abdah Mouhammad's (aka Kari Bilal) Combatant Status Review Tribunal was[2]:

The detainee operated a safe house where 5-20 personnel armed with AK-47 rifles could be found at any given time.
342 Mohammed Mubarek Salah Al Qurbi

"The detainee served as the manager of the Al Qaida frontline's guesthouse in Kabul, Afghanistan."

10017 Abu Faraj al-Libbi

"A Federal Bureau of Investigation source stated he met the detainee in July-August 2001 at the al Qaida guest house in Kabul, Afghanistan. The same source also stated the detainee managed the guest house, and the guest house also served as the Kabul communications hub for Al-Qaida."

[edit] Alleged to have stayed in Kabul safe houses associated with the Taliban or al Qaeda

American counter-terrorism analysts called many of the houses "safe houses", even when the captives stayed in these houses during the time the Taliban was in power.

isn name allegations
? Musa Ali Said Al Said Al Umari

"The detainee stayed at a Taliban house in a small village outside of Kabul."

173 Ridouane Khalid

"The detainee stayed at a safehouse in Kabul in the Akbar Khan Mina neighborhood, a known Taliban and Al Qaeda occupied territory."

252 Yasim Muhammed Basardah

"The detainee was at a Taliban house in Kabul, Afghanistan when the U.S. bombing campaign began."

441 Abd Al Rahman Al Zahri

During his first annual Administrative Review Board hearing he would have faced the allegation[8]:

The detainee stayed at the residence of the former Saudi Arabian Ambassador in Kabul, Afghanistan, which has been reported as a Taliban safe house used by al Qaida and personnel from al Farouq.
661 Mamdouh Habib

"Detainee admits to residing at another safehouse in Kabul, Afghanistan where the number of guests and amount of activity significantly increased just prior to the attacks of September 11, 2001."

[edit] Alleged to have stayed in Kabul guest houses that had ties to terrorism

isn name allegations
28 Muaz Hamza Ahmad Al Alawi

"The detainee stayed at another Taliban guesthouse in Kabul, Afghanistan before traveling north in a Taliban vehicle to the Khalid Center, hear Baghram (sic), Afghanistan."

32 Faruq Ali Ahmed

"The Detainee admitted to lodging at an official Taliban residence in Kabul, with a Taliban representative he met in Quetta Pakistan."

"The detainee stayed at a house in Kabul that was used by Taliban officials to live in while in Kabul on business."

43 Samir Naji Al Hasan Moqbel
  • "The detainee arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan and stayed in a house owned by the Taliban."
    *"The detainee made several trips from the front line to the guesthouse in Kabul, Afghanistan."
78 Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al Hanashi
  • Al Hanashi acknowledged staying in four Taliban guesthouses in Afghanistan, including one in Kabul.[14]
199 Abdul Rahman Ma Ath Thafir Al Amri

"The detainee stayed at a guesthouse in Kabul where he relinquished his passport and belongings before leaving for the front lines to fight."

256 Atag Ali Abdoh Al-Haj

"Upon arriving in Kabul, Al Haj stayed in another Taliban guesthouse, known as Kabul House, for a week."

310 Djamel Ameziane
  • The detainee was instructed to go to a guesthouse in Kabul upon his arrival in Afghanistan, which the detainee ultimately followed.
    *The detainee noted that a number of the other residents of the guesthouse were Taliban fighters.
    *The guesthouse in Kabul was run by an Al Qaida communicaitons specialist."
329 Abd Al Hadio Omar Mahmoud Faraj
  • The detainee stayed in a house for Syrians, which was located in Kabul, Afghanistan.
    *The Syrian house was located in the al Qaida enclave area of Wazir Akhbar Khan in Kabul, Afghanistan.
    *The Syrian group guesthouse was associated with al Qaida and was used for money and document forgery operations."
340 Bessam Muhammed Saleh Al Dubaikey

"The detainee was seen at a guesthouse in Kabul, Afghanistan where he promised to give a senior al Qaida operative money for operations in Israel."

528 Abdallah Tohtasinovich Magrupov

"The detainee admitted that he stayed at a house]] in Kabul, Afghanistan, that was owned by the Taliban."

553 Abdul Khaled Ahmed Sahleh Al Bedani

"The detainee was in a guesthouse in Kabul awaiting training when he heard of the attacks on America and possibility of retaliation and decided to leave Afghanistan immediately."

556 Abdullah Mohammad Khan

"The detainee was at the Khana Gulam Bacha guesthouse]] on the Taliban front lines in Kabul (sic), Afghanistan in late 1999 and early 2000."

"An Iraqi detainee identified the detainee in a photo and reported he had seen the detainee at the Khana Gulam Bacha guesthouse on the Taliban front lines in Kabul (sic), Afghanistan during late 1999-2000."

584 Adel Noori
836 Ayoub Murshid Ali Saleh

"The detainee stayed at several Taliban houses while in Kabul, Afghanistan."

1004 Mohammed Yacoub

"The detainee was a guide for foreign fighters at a Taliban house in Kabul, Afghanistan."

[edit] Alleged to have stayed in Kabul houses, without any explicit allegation of ties to terrorism

Some Guantanamo captives faced the allegation that they stayed in Afghan guest houses that were not explicitly tied to terrorism.

isn name allegations
103 Arkin Mahmud

"The detainee stayed at a guesthouse in Kabul, Afghanistan for approximately six weeks."

183 Issam Hamid Al Bin Ali Al Jayfi

"The detainee stayed at a guesthouse in Kabul for seven weeks."

817 Richard Belmar

"The detainee stayed at a house in Kabul, Afghanistan and received training in the assembling and disassembling of the AK47."

838 Shawki Awad Balzuhair

"The detainee repeatedly traveled between his guesthouse in Kabul and Omar Saif, Afghanistan after 11 September 2001, until he was ordered to retreat."

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d OARDEC (1 July 2005). Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Noori, Adel pages 42-44. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-12-19.
  2. ^ OARDEC (5 October 2004). Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Maasoum Abdah Mouhammad aka: Bilal, Kari page 66. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2008-03-12.
  3. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Mohammed Mubarek Salah Al Qurbi's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 10-13
  4. ^ Summary of Evidence prepared for Abu Faraj al-Libbi's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, February 8, 2007
  5. ^ Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf) of Musa Ali Said Al Said Al Umari Administrative Review Board - page 69
  6. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Ridouane Khalid's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 52-63
  7. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Yasim Muhammed Basardah's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 9-17
  8. ^ OARDEC (21 November 2005). Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Zahri, Abd Al Rahman pages 39-42. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2008-05-15.
  9. ^ Unclassified documents (.pdf) from Mamdouh Habib's, Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 16-17 - mirror - pages 28-29
  10. ^ Summary of Evidence memo (.pdf) prepared for Muaz Hamza Ahmad Al Alawi's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - October 16, 2004 page 230
  11. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Faruq Ali Ahmed's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 12-16 - mirror - pages 126-131
  12. ^ Summarized transcript (.pdf), from Faruq Ali Ahmed's Administrative Review Board hearing - pages 36-52 - October 24, 2005
  13. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Samir Naji Al Hasan Moqbel's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 63-69
  14. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al Hanashi'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 55-56
  15. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdul Rahman Ma Ath Thafir Al Amri's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 21-22
  16. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Riyad Atiq Ali Abdu Al Haj Al Radai'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 1
  17. ^ Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf) of Riyad Atiq Ali Abdu Al Haj Al Radai Administrative Review Board - page 34
  18. ^ Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf) of Djamel Ameziane Administrative Review Board - pages 11-13
  19. ^ Summarized transcript (.pdf), from Abd Al Hadio Omar Mahmoud Faraj's Administrative Review Board hearing - page 56
  20. ^ Summarized transcript (.pdf), from Bessam Muhammed Saleh Al Dubaikey's Administrative Review Board hearing - page 86
  21. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdallah Tohtasinovich Magrupov's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 7-11
  22. ^ Summary of Evidence (.pdf) from Abdul Khaled Ahmed Sahleh Al Bedani's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, pages 14-15
  23. ^ Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf) of Abdul Khaled Ahmed Sahleh Al Bedani Administrative Review Board - page 12
  24. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdullah Mohammad Khan's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 107-115
  25. ^ Summarized transcript (.pdf), from Abdullah Mohammad Khan's Administrative Review Board hearing - page 98
  26. ^ OARDEC (18 September 2004). Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Noori, Adel page 4. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-12-20.
  27. ^ Summary of Evidence memo (.pdf) prepared for Ayoub Murshid Ali Saleh's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - October 16, 2004 - page 152
  28. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Mohammed Yacoub'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 51-64
  29. ^ Summary of Evidence memo (.pdf) prepared for Arkin Mahmud's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - November 9, 2004 - page 49
  30. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Issam Hamid Al Bin Ali Al Jayfi'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 13-22
  31. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Richard Dean Belmar's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 10-17
  32. ^ OARDEC (18 October 2004). Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Balzuhair, Shawki Awad page 28. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2008-01-08.