Nayif Abdallah Ibrahim Ibrahim

Nayif Abdallah Ibrahim Ibrahim 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 258. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate he was born in 1982, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Nayif Abdallah Ibrahim Ibrahim was transferred to Saudi Arabia on November 9, 2007.^[2]

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives from the war on terror.^[3] 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.

Summary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Naif Abdallah Ibrahim Al Nukhaylan's Combatant Status Review Tribunal on August 31, 2004.^[4] The memo listed seven allegations, including:

• that he admitted to Afghanistan to participate in jihad;
• that he was trained to use the AK-47, PK machine gun, rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), and mortars, at the al Farouq training camp and the Moroccan training camp;
• that the aerial bombardment that injured him he was at the Moroccan training camp.

Administrative Review Board

Detainees whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal labeled them "enemy combatants" were scheduled for annual Administrative Review Board hearings. These hearings were designed to assess the threat a detainee may pose if released or transferred, and whether there are other factors that warrant his continued detention.^[5]

First annual Administrative Review Board

The factors for and against continuing to detain Al Nukhaylan were among the 121 that the Department of Defense released on March 3, 2006.^[6]

The following primary factors favor continued detention

a. Commitment

1. The detainee admits traveling to Afghanistan to participate in Jihad.
2. Detainee's mode of travel was to leave Saudi Arabia via bus to Kuwait, from Kuwait to Syria on a plane and from Syria to Iran, again on an airplane and then from Iran to Afghanistan via bus. The detainee paid for this trip with the funds given to him at the mosque.

b. Training

1. Detainee admits receiving training at al-Farouq weapons training camp. He received instruction on the AK-47 rifle, PK machine gun, and RPG weapons system.
2. Detainee also attended a Moroccan training camp in Jalalabad for six to seven months.
3. Detainee admits receiving mortar training at the Moroccan camp.

c. Connection

1. Detainee admits knowing that al-Farouq training camp belonged to Usama Bin Laden and that it was a terrorist training camp.
2. Detainee stayed at the Bayt al Arab guest-house in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
3. The Bayt al Arab guest-house is maintained by Usama Bin Laden.

d. Intent

1. Detainee said to a guard at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, "Sergeant, I will kill you."

The following primary factors favor release or transfer

a. The detainee claimed he went to jihad for religious reasons and to do charity work, like food distribution.

b. Detainee stated he despised al Qaida, who he believes were very dangerous, and they lied to him. Detainee believes al Qaida prevented him from going home and had stolen his passport, which he believed they would use in some kind of operation.

Second annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Nayif Abdallah Ibrahim Al Nukhaylan's second annual Administrative Review Board on February 21, 2006.^[7] The three page memo listed ten "primary factors favor[ing] continued detention" and six "primary factors favor[ing] release or transfer".

Among the factors he faced were:

• he was alleged to have attended many mosques in Saudi Arabia, and he met an imam at one named Ibnothemin who recommended he go to Afghanistan—he was alleged to have accepted travel funds from someone else at that mosque;
• he was alleged to have stayed at the Arab guesthouse in Kandahar, where the manager made arrangements for him to attend an Afghan training camp;
• he gave the guesthouse manager his passport;
• he was alleged to have known that the al Farouq training camp he attended was run by Osama bin Laden, and to have realized, after the training began, that the camp was a terrorist training camp;
• an informant stated he attended urban warfare training;
• he was alleged to have told an interrogator that he had a dream where Mohammed appeared to him and told him that those who abused him would burn in hell;
• he left the al Farouq camp when he learned it was a terrorist training camp because he did not believed there was a difference between the kind of jihad his religion authorized and attacking innocent civilians.

Transcript

Nayif attended his second review board hearing.^[8] The Department of Defense published a 14 page transcript in September 2007.

Third annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Nayif A Al Nukhiylan's third annual Administrative Review Board on April 24, 2007.^[9]

Board recommendations

In early September 2007 the Department of Defense released two heavily redacted memos, from his Board, to Gordon England, the Designated Civilian Official.^[10][11] The Board's recommendation was unanimous The Board's recommendation was redacted. England authorized his continued detention on June 28, 2007.

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