Fadil Husayn Salih Hintif

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Fadil Husayn Salih Hintif
Born: 1969 (age 38–39)
Al Youf, Yemen
Citizenship Yemen
Detained at: Guantanamo
ID number: 259
Conviction(s): no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
CSRT Summary * "Fadil Hintif CSRT Summary" on Wikisource.
Casio F91W, in daily alarm mode. The watch is currently set to ring an alarm, and flash its light, at 7:30am.
Casio F91W, in daily alarm mode. The watch is currently set to ring an alarm, and flash its light, at 7:30am.

Fadil Husayn Salih Hintif is a citizen of Yemen held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo detainee ID number is 259. American intelligence analysts estimate that Hintif was born in 1969, in Al Youf, Yemen.

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[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Combatant Status Review Tribunal notice read to a Guantanamo captive.
Combatant Status Review Tribunal notice read to a Guantanamo captive.

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] Allegations

During the winter and spring of 2005 the Department of Defense complied with a Freedom of Information Act request, and released five files that contained 507 memoranda which each summarized the allegations against a single detainee. These memos, entitled "Summary of Evidence" were prepared for the detainee's Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The detainee's names and ID numbers were redacted from all but one of these memos, when they were first released in 2005. But some of them contain notations in pen. 169 of the memos bear a hand-written notation specifying the detainee's ID number. One of the memos had a notation specifying Hintif's detainee ID.[2] The allegations he would have faced, during his Tribunal, were:

a. The detainee is associated with the Taliban and al Qaida:
  1. The detainee arrived in Afghanistan from Yemen, via Pakistan.
  2. The detainee claims to be Red Crescent volunteer, but cannot provide much information on city layout or known associates.
  3. The detainee was captured near the border of Pakistan while crossing from Afghanistan.
  4. The detainee was captured while in possession of a Casio watch model that has been used in bombings linked to al Qaida and radical Islamic terrorist groups with improvised explosive devices.
  5. The detainee stayed at several Taliban safehouses.
  6. The detainee's name appears on a list recovered from an al Qaida safehouse.

[edit] Testimony

There is no record that Hintif chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

[edit] References

  1. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
  2. ^ CSRT Summary of Evidence memorandum (.pdf) prepared for Fadil Husayn Salih Hintif's Combatant Status Review Tribunals - October 25, 2004 - page 67