| Majeed Abdullah Al Joudi | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1967 (age 44–45) Mecca |
| Detained at | Guantanamo |
| Alternate name | Majid Abdallah al Judi Majid Abdulla al Joudi Majeed Abdullah Majid Abdullah Lahiq al Joudi |
| ISN | 25 |
| Charge(s) | No charge (extrajudicial detention) |
| Status | Repatriated; allegedly engaged in terrorism upon return |
Majeed Abdullah Al Joudi is a citizen of Saudi Arabia who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 25. American counter-terror analysts estimate he was born in 1967, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
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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 a 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.
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Majid Abdallah Al Judi's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 17 August 2004.[2] The memo listed the following allegations against him:
- a. Detainee is a member of the Taliban and al-Qaida.
- The detainee admits traveling from Saudi Arabia to Afghanistan in 2001 for the purpose of work for Al-Wafa.
- Al-Wafa is an organization listed in Executive Order 13224, and it has been closely associated with al-Qaida and the Taliban.
- Detainee was captured by U.S. forces in a hospital along with several al-Qaida members.
- Detaiene was captured with al-Qaida surveillance evasion reports and after-action reports.
The detainee election form was dated August 19, 2004.[3] On it his Personal Representative checked the box that recorded that the captive "Affirmatively Declines to Participate in Tribunal." The Personal Representative Comments section recorded:
"Polite and does not want a PR. Stated that evidence saying he had documents at capture are false."
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.
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Majid Abdallah Al Judi's first annual Administrative Review Board, on 17 November 2005.[4] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.
There is no record that al Joudi chose to participate in his first annual Administrative Review Board.
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Majeed Abdullah's second annual Administrative Review Board, on 7 November 2006.[5] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.
Al Joudi attended his second annual Board hearing.[6]
In early September 2007 the Department of Defense released two heavily redacted memos, from his Board, to Gordon England, the Designated Civilian Official.[7][8] The Board's recommendation was unanimous. The Board's recommendation was redacted. England chose to transfer al Joudi to Saudi custody. on February 14, 2007.
In 2005 there were two widespread hunger strikes at Guantanamo.[9] Al Joudi's lawyer, Julia Tarver, filed requests with US District Court Judge Gladys Kessler, over her concern over their medical condition, and the brutality of the force feeding that Al Joudi and her other clients were receiving.
Kessler ordered the DoD to inform Tarver, within 24 hours, whenever they used force-feeding on her clients.[9] She ordered them to file weekly medical reports with Tarver, for the duration of the hunger strike.
Al Joudi was repatriated on February 21, 2007, along with six other Saudis.[10][11] The seven men were detained, without charge, in Hayer Prison, while Saudi justice officials determined whether they had violated any Saudi laws.[12]
On May 20, 2009, the New York Times, citing an unreleased Pentagon document, reported that Department of Defense officials claimed Majeed Abdullah al Joudi was one of 74 former Guantanatmo captives who "are engaged in terrorism or militant activity."[13][14] On May 27, 2009, the Defense Intelligence Agency published a "fact sheet" that confirmed Al Joudi had engaged in terrorism after his return.[15] The DIA listed him as having engaged in "terrorist facilitation".
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