Ali Husein Muhammad Shaaban

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Ali Husein Muhammad Shaaban is a citizen of Syria, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.[1] Shaaban's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 327. The Department of Defense reports that Shaaban was born on March 6, 1982, in Utaiba, Syria.

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[edit] Identity

Captive 327 was named inconsistently on the two official lists of captives' names and ID numbers the Department of Defense released:

  • Captive 327 was listed as Husein Muhammad Shaaban on the list released on April 20, 2006.[2]
  • Captive 327 was listed as Ali Husein Shaaban on the list released on May 15, 2006.[1]

[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a trailer the size of a large RV. The captive sat on a plastic garden chair, with his hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor. Three chairs were reserved for members of the press, but only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were observed. The neutrality of this section is disputed. Please see the discussion on the talk page.(December 2007)Please do not remove this message until the dispute is resolved.
Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a trailer the size of a large RV. The captive sat on a plastic garden chair, with his hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor.[3][4] Three chairs were reserved for members of the press, but only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were observed.[5]
The neutrality of this section is disputed.
Please see the discussion on the talk page.(December 2007)
Please do not remove this message until the dispute is resolved.

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.

Shaaban chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[6]

[edit] allegations

The allegations that Shaaban faced during his Tribunal were:

a. -- The general summary of the allegations that establish an association with terrorism were missing from the transcript. --
  1. The Detainee left Syria on 3 July 2000, traveled through Turkey and Iran, and arrived in Afghanistan.
  2. The Detainee resided for approximately one year, with five to six other Syrians, in a house rented by a Syrian in Kabul, Afghanistan.
  3. Four of the Syrians from the house (including the Detainee) have been captured and are being held by the United States and coalition partners.
  4. The Detainee fled to Afghanistan to join a Syrian camp under the supervision of a leader allied with Usama Bin Laden.
  5. The Detainee reportedly attempted to convince his brother to receive flight training in the United States.
  6. The Detainee received basic training on the Kalashnikov rifle.
b. -- The general summary of the allegations of hostile activity were missing from the transcript. --
  1. The Detainee left Kabul, after its fall to the Northern Alliance, and stayed in a trench that was supplied with food, water and weapons.
  2. The detainee stated that there were three Yemenis in the trench that had Kalashnikov rifles.
  3. When the bombing campaign started, the Detainee drove with three others to unidentified mountains in the direction of Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
  4. The Detainee and three others surrendered to Pakistani authorities when the group arrived in Pakistan.

[edit] testimony

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
  2. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, April 20, 2006
  3. ^ Guantánamo Prisoners Getting Their Day, but Hardly in Court, New York Times, November 11, 2004 - mirror
  4. ^ Inside the Guantánamo Bay hearings: Barbarian "Justice" dispensed by KGB-style "military tribunals", Financial Times, December 11, 2004
  5. ^ Annual Administrative Review Boards for Enemy Combatants Held at Guantanamo Attributable to Senior Defense Officials. United States Department of Defense (March 6, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-09-22.
  6. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Ali Husein Muhammad Shaaban's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 77-86