Tarek Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada

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Tarek Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada 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 178. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate that Baada was born in 1976, in Shebwa, Yemen.

[edit] Identity

Captive 178 was identified inconsistently on official Department of Defense documents:

• Captive 178 was identified as Tarek Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada on the second official list, released on May 15, 2006.^[1]
• Captive 178 was identified as Tareq Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 13 October 2004, on the Summary of Evidence memos prepared for his first two annual Administrative Review Boards, on 21 June 2005 and 22 March 2006, and on four other official lists of captives.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

[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 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.

[edit] Summary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Tareq Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 13 October 2004.^[6] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

a. The detainee is a member of the Taliban or al Qaida.

1. The detainee and his group were positioned about 4km south of the front line in a place called Omar Saif, which was the third line area,
2. After the fall of Kabul, the detainee fled to the Tora Bora mountains.
3. The detainee was on guard duty with an AK-47 while in the Tora Bora Mountains.
4. The detainee was arrested by the Pakistani Army as he and others crossed the Pakistan border.

b. The detainee participated in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners.

1. The detainee traveled to Afghanistan in June 2001, to train for Jihad.
2. The detainee attended the al Farouq training camp.
3. The detainee received training on the AK-47 and pistols while at the al Farouq camp.
4. The detainee was in Afghanistan on 11 September 2001.

[edit] Administrative Review Board hearing

Hearing room where Guantanamo captive's annual Administrative Review Board hearings convened for captives whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal had already determined they were an "enemy combatant".^[9]

Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings. The Administrative Review Boards weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".

They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat -- or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free.

[edit] First annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Tareq Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada's first annual Administrative Review Board, on 21 June 2005.^[7] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

[edit] Second annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Tareq Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada's second annual Administrative Review Board, on 22 March 2006.^[8] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} OARDEC (May 15, 2006). List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
2. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, April 20, 2006
3. ^ OARDEC (July 17, 2007). Index for Combatant Status Review Board unclassified summaries of evidence. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
4. ^ OARDEC (August 9, 2007). Index to Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round One. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
5. ^ OARDEC (July 17, 2007). Index of Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round Two. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
6. ^ ^{a b} OARDEC (13 October 2004). Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Baada, Tareq Ali Abdullah Ahmed page 84. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-12-05.
7. ^ ^{a b} OARDEC (21 June 2005). Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Baada, Tareq Ali Abdullah Ahmed pages 6-8. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-12-05.
8. ^ ^{a b} OARDEC (22 March 2006). Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Baada, Tareq Ali Abdullah Ahmed pages 59-61. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-12-05.
9. ^ Spc Timothy Book. "Review process unprecedented", JTF-GTMO Public Affairs Office, Friday March 10, 2006, pp. pg 1. Retrieved on 2007-10-10.