Template:CSRT-Yes

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[edit] Combatant Status Review

CSRT notice read to a Guantanamo captive.
CSRT notice read to a Guantanamo captive.

Initially the Bush administration asserted they could withhold the protections of the Geneva Conventions from captives in the War on Terror, while critics argued the Conventions obligated the United States to conduct competent tribunals to determine the status of prisoners. Subsequently the Department of Defense instituted Combatant Status Review Tribunals, to determine whether the captives met the new definition of an "enemy combatant".

The trailer where CSRTs were convened.
The trailer where CSRTs were convened.

From July 2004 through March 2005, a CSRT was convened to make a determination whether each captive had been correctly classified as an "enemy combatant". CSRT-Yes among the two-thirds of prisoners who chose to participate in their tribunals.[1]

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for the tribunal, listing the alleged facts that led to his detainment. CSRT-Yes's memo accused him of the following:

These templates exist per agreement by all who took part in discussions at Wikiproject:Templates, Wikiproject:Terrorism and Wikipedia Talk:Templates. Their existence is justified in that they are slowly being used to pipe sections of debated NPOV/COATRACK issues across 900 separate articles