Salah Bin Al Hadi Asasi

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Summary of Evidence memo for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- ASASI, Salah Bin Al Hadi

Salah Bin Al Hadi Asasi is held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.^[1] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 46.

1 Identity
2 Combatant Status Review Tribunal
- 2.1 Allegations
3 References

[edit] Identity

Captive 46 is named inconsistently on different official documents issued by the US Government:

Captive 46 is named Salah Bin Al Hadi Asasi on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.^[2]
Captive 46 is named Sayf Bin Abdallah on the official list of all the captives released on May 15, 2006.^[1]

[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 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.

There is no record that Salah Bin Al Hadi Asasi chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

[edit] Allegations

A Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his Tribunal states^[2]:

The detainee is associated with al Qaida and the Taliban.

1	Originally from Menzil Tunisia, the detainee relocated to Turin, Italy in 1997.

2	In February 2001, the detainee was recruited to fight the jihad in Afghanistan by Noor-Deen, a known al Qaida recruiter, at the Via Berreti mosque in Turin.

3	In July 2001, the detainee traveled the route provided by his recruiter from Milan, Italy to Kabul, Afghanistan, via Tehran, Iran; Mashad, Iran; and Herat Afghanistan.

4	Once in Afghanistan, the detainee sought out the Taliban and requested to be placed on the front lines.

5	The detainee received training on the AK-47 rifle from the Taliban in Jabul Sabr.

6	The detainee worked for the Tunisian Al Qaida faction in Afghanistan.