Humud Dakhil Humud Sa'id Al Jad'an

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Humud Dakhil Humud Sa'id Al Jad'an is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.^[1] Al Jad'an's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 230. The Department of Defense reports that Al Jad'an was born on May 22, 1973, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a trailer the size of a large RV. The captive sat on a plastic garden chair, with his hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor.^[2][3] Three chairs were reserved for members of the press, but only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were observed.^[4]

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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 a 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.

Al Jad'an chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.^[5][6]

[edit] allegations

The allegations al Jad'an faced during his Tribunal were:^[5][6]

a. The Detainee is a member of al Qaida.

1. The detainee stated that he traveled from Saudi Arabia through Pakistan and into Afghanistan to attend training funded by Usama Bin Laden and to fight with the Taliban and Muslims.
2. Detainee trained with weapons and explosives at the al Farouq training camp and also at the Camp Melek (Camp Saber) training camp.
3. Detainee saw Usama Bin Laden at al Faronq on two separate occasions during his basic training.
4. The Detainee was captured by Pakistani authorities while trying to escape from the Tora Bora region into Pakistan.

b. The Detainee participated in military operations against the United States or its coalition partners.

1. The Detainee fought at Tora Bora and at the Second Bagram Line.

[edit] testimony

[edit] Repatriation

A captive Saudi official called Humoud Al Jadani was repatriated to Saudi custody, with fifteen other men, on July 16, 2007.^[7]

Historian Andy Worthington reports that Al Jad'an acknowledged going to Afghanistan for military training -- so he could go fight in Chechnya, but had terminate his training due to asthma attacks.^[8]

[edit] References

1. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
2. ^ Guantánamo Prisoners Getting Their Day, but Hardly in Court, New York Times, November 11, 2004 - mirror
3. ^ Inside the Guantánamo Bay hearings: Barbarian "Justice" dispensed by KGB-style "military tribunals", Financial Times, December 11, 2004
4. ^ 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.
5. ^ ^{a b} Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Humud Dakhil Humud Sa'id Al Jad'an's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 117-119
6. ^ ^{a b} Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Humud Dakhil Humud Sa'id Al Jad'an's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 1-2
7. ^ Raid Qusti. "More Gitmo Detainees Come Home", Arab News, July 17, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-07-17. 
8. ^ Andy Worthington. "Who are the 16 Saudis Released From Guantánamo?", Huffington Post, July 18, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-08-11.