User:Geo Swan/gitmo/Bisher Amin Khalil Al-Rawi

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'''Bisher Amin Khalil Al-Rawi''' is an [[Iraq]]i citizen, who moved to the [[United Kingdom]] approximately twenty years ago. He, and his friend [[Jamil al Banna]], were captured in [[Gambia]] on a business trip, and is currently detained in [[Camp Delta]] in [[Guantanamo Bay]]. ==Al-Rawi's Combatant Status Review Tribunal== Al-Rawi is one of the detainees who chose to appear before his [[Combatant Status Review Tribunal]]. Al Rawi told his Tribunal that his "Personal Representative" had only met with him twice, for a total of two and a half hours. During the course of his Tribunal Al Rawi told his Tribunal that his PR had not shown him two of unclassified documents which were to form part of the evidence Most of the questions concerned his friendship with a muslim cleric named [[Abu Qatada]]. Al-Rawi says that Qatada asked him for small favours, translating for him when he looked for an apartment, small home repairs, and on a few occasion over three or four years he agreed to transfer money to Abu Qatada's father in Jordan. The Tribunal described his attempts to help Qatada find an apartment as helping him hide from British authorities. Al-Rawi replied that it had appeared to him that Qatada was living openly, and he had no way of knowing that Qatada was a wanted man. When asked if he knew Qatada was associated with al Qaeda he says he became aware that Qatada's name was linked to al Qaeda, only after September 11, 2002. The Tribunal concluded that Al-Rawi had been properly classified as an "illegal combatant". ==External links== *[http://www.cageprisoners.com/downloads/bisheralrawi.pdf documents from] Bisher Amin Khalil Al-Rawi's [[Combatant Status Review Tribunal]] *[http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1388268,00.html Tortured, humiliated and crying out for some justice], [[The Guardian]], January 12, 2005 *[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4205989.stm UK's 'forgotten' Cuba detainees], [[BBC]], 25 January, 2005 [[Category:People imprisoned for terrorism|Rawi, Bisher Amin Khalil al]] [[Category:U.S. detainees|Rawi]]