Turki Mash Awi Zayid Al Asiri

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Turki Mash Awi Zayid Al Asiri
Born: March 8, 1975(1975-03-08)
Yaboq, Saudi Arabia
Detained at: Guantanamo
Alias(s): Turki Mish'awi Za'id Alj-Amri
ID number: 185
Conviction(s): no charge, held in extrajudicial detention

Turki Mash Awi Zayid Al Asiri is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] His detainee ID number is 185. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts reports that Al Asiri was born on March 8, 1975, in Yaboq, Saudi Arabia.

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[edit] Identity

Captive 185 was identified inconsistently on official Department of Defense documents:

[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.
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 Turki Mash Awi Zayid Al Asiri's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 5 October 2004.[9][6] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

a. The detainee is associated with al Qaida or Taliban forces:
  1. The detainee is a Saudi Arabian citizen[10] who volunteered to travel to Afghanistan via a flight from the United Arab Emirates to Karachi, Pakistan; to Hyderabad, Pakistan; to Safa, Pakistan; to Baker, Pakistan, and finally to a guesthouse in Kandahar, Afghanistan prior to 11 September 2001.
  2. The detainee trained at the al Farouq camp for about one month.
  3. The detainee received physical exercise and weapons training while at the al Farouq camp.
  4. The detainee was in Jalalabad, Afghanistan on 11 September 2001 when the attacks occurred in the United States.
  5. The detainee stated that due to the bombing by the United States, he and others retreated from Jalalabad, Afghanistan to the mountains, approximately three weeks after the 11 September 2001 attacks.
  6. The detainee stated he traveled throughout Pakistan and Afghanistan for approximately six or seven months [sic] prior to his capture by Pakistani forces in December 2001 [sic] .
  7. An alias that may be associated with this detainee was listed on a document recovered during raids against al Qaida associates.

[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".
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".[11]

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 Turki Mash Awi Zayid Al Asiri's first annual Administrative Review Board, on 9 September 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 Turki Mish'awi Za'id Alj-Amri's second annual Administrative Review Board, on 9 May 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 (5 October 2004). Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Turki Mash Awi Zayid Al Asiri pages 92-93. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-12-07.
  7. ^ a b OARDEC (9 September 2005). Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Turki Mash Awi Zayid Al Asiri pages 16-19. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-12-07.
  8. ^ a b OARDEC (9 May 2006). Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Alj-Amri, Turki Mish'awi Za'id pages 68-72. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-12-07.
  9. ^ OARDEC (5 October 2004). Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- name redacted pages 203-204. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-12-07.
  10. ^ The phrase "a Saudi Arabian citizen" was redacted from the version released in March 2005.
  11. ^ Spc Timothy Book. "Review process unprecedented", JTF-GTMO Public Affairs Office, Friday March 10, 2006, pp. pg 1. Retrieved on 2007-10-10.