Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris

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Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1] His detainee ID number is 036. American intelligence analysts estimate Idris was born in 1961, in Hathramuut, Yemen.

[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

CSRT 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 Tribunal. 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.

To comply with a Freedom of Information Act request, during the winter and spring of 2005, the Department of Defense released 507 memoranda. Those 507 memoranda each contained the allegations against a single detainee, prepared for their Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The detainee's name and ID numbers were redacted from all but one of the memoranda. However 169 of the memoranda had the detainee's ID hand-written on the top right hand of the first page corner. When the Department of Defense complied with a court order, and released official lists of the detainee's names and ID numbers it was possible to identify who those 169 were written about. Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris was one of those 169 detainees.^[2]

[edit] Allegations

a. The detainee is associated with the Taliban and al Qaida:

The detainee traveled from Sudan through Pakistan to Kandahar, Afghanistan.
The detainee stated that he was the ####### at Camp Farouk, but did not have any formal training ################
The detainee stated that he met, spoke with and shook hands with Usama Bin Laden on multiple occasions, when Usama Bin Laden would visit Camp Farouk.
The detainee stated that he had received military training at Camp Farouk and trained on the Kalashnikov rifle, Beka machinegun and mortars.
The detainee stated that for the two years he had been in Afghanistan, prior to the start of the United States bombing, he fought with the Taliban against the Northern Alliance.

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

The detainee stated that he has killed people in battle while attacking or being attacked by the Northern Alliance.
The detainee stated that he asked where the fighting was taking place and then went to the frontline at Baghram ^[^sic] where he spent approximately two years fighting, prior to the start of the United States bombing of Afghanistan.
The detainee was in Baghram during the United States air campaign there.
The detainee drove with Taliban members towards the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, split from this group at the border and surrendered to the Pakistani Army, where he was put in jail to be later turned over to United States forces in Kandahar, Afghanistan.