Muhammad Hussein Ali Hassan

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Muhammad Hussein Ali Hassan is a citizen of Morocco who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.^[1] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 123. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts report he was born on December 16, 1966, in Selwan, Morocco.

[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Combatant Status Review Tribunal notice read to a Guantanamo captive. During the period July 2004 through March 2005 a Combatant Status Review Tribunal was convened to make a determination whether they had been correctly classified as an "enemy combatant". Participation was optional. The Department of Defense reports that 317 of the 558 captives who remained in Guantanamo, in military custody, attended their Tribunals.

Initially the Bush Presidency 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 Presidency's definition of an enemy combatant.

[edit] Summary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Muhammad Hussein Ali Hassan's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 28 September 2004.^[2] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

a. The detainee is a member of the Taliban:

1. Detainee, a Moroccan, went to Afghanistan in 2000 to fight jihad.
2. Detainee was trained on the use of the Kalishnikov ^[sic] rifle for 1-2 weeks and then was assigned to the Rabeii position on the line.
3. Detainee was captured on 1 November 2001. He surrendered to coalition allies at Mazar-E-Sharif ^[sic] .

b. The detainee participated in military operations against the coalition.

1. Detainee was in the rear in Kabul and advanced ^[sic] as Taliban forces advanced ^[sic] .

[edit] Transcript

There is no record that captive 123 chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

[edit] Administrative Review Board

Hearing room for ARB hearings, after captives had been found to be "enemy combatants" during their CSRT.^[3]

Detainees whose CSRT labelled them "enemy combatants" were then scheduled for annual Administrative Review Board hearings. These hearings were designed to judge whether the detainee posed a threat if repatriated to their home country.

In September 2007 the Department of Defense released all the Summary of Evidence memos prepared for the Administrative Review Boards convened in 2005 or 2006.^[4][5] There was no record that an ARB had been convened to review his detention.

[edit] References

1. ^ list of prisoners, US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
2. ^ OARDEC (28 September 2004). Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal - Hassan, Muhammad Hussein Ali page 36. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-11-08.
3. ^ Book, Spc. Timothy. The Wire (JTF-GTMO), "Review process unprecedented", March 10, 2006
4. ^ OARDEC, Index to Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round One, August 9, 2007
5. ^ OARDEC, Index of Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round Two, July 17, 2007