Feda Ahmed

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Feda Ahmed
Born:	February 5, 1977(1977-02-05) [February 5]] 1977, in Kandahar, Afghanistan
Detained at:	Guantanamo
ID number:	1013
Conviction(s):	no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
Status	Determined not to have been an enemy combatant after all

Feda Ahmed is a citizen of Afghanistan, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.^[1] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 1013. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts reported that Feda Ahmed was born in February 5, 1977, in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a trailer the size of a large RV. The captive sat with his hands cuffed and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor.^[2] Three chairs were reserved for members of the press, but only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were observed.^[3]

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] Summary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Feda Ahmed's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 18 October 2004.^[4] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

The detainee is associated with al Qaida:

1. The detainee attempted to be smuggled into the United States.
2. The detainee traveled with forged travel documents, including a passport and other travel documents.
3. The detainee left Pakistan ten months previous to his detention by paying a smuggler in Pakistan twenty-five thousand dollars (US) to be smuggled into the U.S.
4. The vessel in which the Detainee traveled is believed to be a special interest vessel, which was the focus of Operation Southern Watch.
5. The smuggler responsible for the above-mentioned vessel has close business ties with an individual known to help coordinate smuggling operations for members of Hizballah and al-Gama'at al-Islamiyya ^[sic] .
6. Hizballah and al-Gama'at al-Islamiyya ^[sic] are known terrorist groups.

[edit] Tribunal

Ahmed chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.^[5]

[edit] Testimony

• Ahmed acknowledged trying to smuggle himself into the United States.
• Ahmed acknowledged traveling with forged documents. He traveled from Pakistan to Guatemala by plane, but it was eight months prior to his detention, not ten months. And from Guatemala he traveled overland, by foot or vehicle. He did not travel in any water borne vessels, except local ferries when crossing rivers or streams.
• His smuggler was going to be paid $18,000, not $25,000, by his father, upon his arrival in the USA.

Ahmed asserted he knew nothing of any ties between his smuggler and terrorist groups.

[edit] Determined not to have been an Enemy Combatant

The Washington Post reports that Ahmed was one of 38 detainees who was determined not to have been an enemy combatant during his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.^[6] They report that Ahmed has been released. The Department of Defense refers to these men as No Longer Enemy Combatants.

[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. ^ Inside the Guantánamo Bay hearings: Barbarian "Justice" dispensed by KGB-style "military tribunals", Financial Times, December 11, 2004
3. ^ 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.
4. ^ OARDEC (18 October 2004). Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Ahmed, Feda page 22. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-11-13.
5. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Feda Ahmed's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 13-14
6. ^ Guantanamo Bay Detainees Classifed as "No Longer Enemy Combatants", Washington Post

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