Bosnian captives in Guantanamo

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The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding approximately one dozen Bosnian captives in Guantanamo.[1] A total of 778 captives have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002 The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new captives, all "high value detainees" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush. As of January 2008 the camp population stand at approximately 285.

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[edit] Bosnian captives acknowledged by the DoD

isn name page numbers notes
64 Abdel Hadi Mohammed Badan Al Sebaii Sebaii
CSRT allegations 78
CSRT transcript 45-55
ARB allegations 94-95
ARB decision 24-29
  • Faced the allegations that he was a Bosnian Mujahadin.[2]
  • Allegedly worked for suspect charity al Haramain.[2]
  • Testified he was a Saudi Police Officer whose only contact with Al Haramain had been when he traveled to Sudan as part of an emergency flood relief a decade earlier.[3]
  • His employment record from Saudi Arabia documents he was not in Bosnia during the civil war.[3]
  • Testified he was a decorated veteran of the first Gulf War.[3]
  • Repatriation authorized on November 4, 2005.[4][5]
  • Repatriated to Saudi Arabia on May 19, 2006.[6]
65 Omar Rajab Amin
  • Joint citizen of Kuwait and Bosnia.[7]
  • Testified he arrived in Bosnia after the civil war was over, as an aid worker.[7]
  • Testified he fell in love with a Bosnian woman, and took Bosnian citizenship.[7]
  • Testified he paid the official fee for becoming a citizen, but he believed the citizenship clerk had added him to the list of foreign fighters who had aided Bosnia during the civil war, so he could pocket the fee.[7] The official fee for new citizens was waived for veterans.
148 Adel Ben Mabrouk Bin Hamida Boughanmi
  • Faced the allegation that he lived in a Bosnia Mujahedin village.[8]
535 Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed Al Sawah
CSRT allegations 59-60
CSRT transcript 82-92
  • Allegedly attended a bomb-making course.[9]
  • Allegedly served on the front lines in Afghanistan.[9]
  • Acknowledges he had lived for a time in Bosnia, unclear if he was a citizen. He denied engaging in hostilities in Bosnia.[10]
  • Acknowledges providing military training in Afghanistan, but said that it was all prior to 9-11, so none of it was in violation of US laws.[10]
  • There is no record that he has been released -- or that an Administrative Review Boards convened to conduct his annual review in 2005 or 2006.[11][12]
727 Omar Amer Deghayes
  • Allegedly traveled to Bosnia join the Bosnian Mujahadeen.[13]
10001 Bensayah Belkacem
CSRT allegations 9
10002 Sabir Mahfouz Lahmar
CSRT allegations 75-76
CSRT transcript 16-24
  • Suspected of plotting to bomb the US embassy in Sarajevo.[18]
  • Told his Tribunal that his interrogators refused to interrogate him over the alleged Embassy bombing plot.[19]

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10003 Mohammed Nechle
CSRT allegations 32
CSRT transcript 220-234
10004 Mustafa Ait Idr
CSRT allegations
CSRT transcript
10005 Lakhdar Boumediene
CSRT allegations
CSRT transcript
10006 Boudella Al Hajj
CSRT allegations 9
CSRT transcript 43-66

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[edit] References

  1. ^ OARDEC (May 15, 2006). List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
  2. ^ a b OARDEC (25 September 2004). Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Sebaii, Abdel Hadi Mohammed Badan Al Sebaii page 78. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2008-01-19. “Detainee is suspected of being a Bosnian Mujahadin fighter that [sic] was previously captured in 1996.”
  3. ^ a b c OARDEC (date redacted). Summarized Statement pages 45-55. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2008-01-20.
  4. ^ OARDEC (November 4, 2005). Administrative Review Board assessment and recommendation ICO ISN 064 page. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2008-01-20.
  5. ^ OARDEC (August 11, 2005). Classified Record of Proceedings and basis of Administrative Review Board recommendation for ISN 064 pages 25-29. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2008-01-20.
  6. ^ Anant Raut, Jill M. Friedman (March 19, 2007). The Saudi Repatriates Report. Retrieved on April 21, 2007.
  7. ^ a b c d documents (.pdf) from Omar Rajab Amin's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - - mirror - pages 4-27
  8. ^ OARDEC (8 October 2004). Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Boughanmi, Adel Ben Mabrouk Bin Hamida pages 46-47. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-12-04. “The Tunisian government has listed the detainee as an extremist who lived in the Bosnian Mujahedin Village of Boeinja Bonja.”
  9. ^ a b OARDEC (25 August 2004). Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Al Sawah, Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed pages 59-60. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2008-01-19. “Detainee admits that he attended explosives training at Al Farouq training camp and went on to be a trainer on IED components at Tarnak Farms.”
  10. ^ a b Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed Al Sawah's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 82-92
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ OARDEC (May 24, 2005). Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of pages 55-56. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-12-19. “The detainee went to Bosnia to join the mujahideen. The detainee enjoyed his experience in Bosnia and believed it was a good Muslim cause.”
  14. ^ Man linked to Bin Laden arrested in Bosnia, The Guardian, October 8, 2001
  15. ^ Bosnia: Algerian Trial Jeopardised, Institute for War and Peace Reporting, December 7, 2001
  16. ^ Terrorist material found in Sarajevo charity raid, The Guardian, February 23, 2002
  17. ^ The Next Wave: Dirty-bomb, car-bomb, boat-bomb, bomb plots—meet the new al-Qaeda men, less polished than the 9/11 crew, but any less lethal?, Time (magazine), June 16, 2002
  18. ^ Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants (September 23, 2004). Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal Lahmar, Sabir Mahfouz pages 75-76. Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-08-19.
  19. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Sabir Mahfouz Lahmar's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 16-24
  20. ^ Summarized transcript (.pdf), from Sabir Mahfouz Lahmar's Administrative Review Board hearing - page 115
  21. ^ Allegations from the "Summary of Evidence" (.pdf), from Mohammed Nechle's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - page 32 - September 23, 2004

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