Salman Ebrahim Mohamed Ali Al Khalifa

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Wikipedia:Sheikh Salman Ebrahim Mohamed Ali Al Khalifa is a citizen of Wikipedia:Bahrain who was held in Wikipedia:extrajudicial detention in the Wikipedia:United States Wikipedia:Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Wikipedia:Cuba. His Guantanamo Wikipedia:Internment Serial Number was 246. The Department of Defense reports that Al Khalifa was born on July 24, 1979, in Rifah, Bahrain. He is a member of the Wikipedia:Al Khalifa royal family of Bahrain, related to Wikipedia:King Hamad.

Al Khalifa, like the other Bahrainis held in Guantanamo, has Wikipedia:Joshua Colangelo-Bryan as his lawyer.

Inconsistent identification

Salman Ebrahim Mohamed Ali Al Khalifa was identified inconsistently on official Department of Defense documents:

• He was identified as Salman Ibrahim Al Khalifa on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 9 September 2004, and in CSRT documents published in response to his Wikipedia:habeas corpus petitions.
• He was identified as Sheikh Salman Ebrahim Mohamed Ali Al Khalifa on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his Administrative Review Board, on 29 July 2005.

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

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Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Wikipedia:Geneva Conventions to captives from Wikipedia:the war on terror. This policy was challenged before the Wikipedia:Judicial branch. Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct Wikipedia:competent tribunals to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of Wikipedia:prisoner of war status.

Subsequently, the Department of Defense instituted the Wikipedia:Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The Tribunals, however, were not authorized to determine whether the captives were lawful combatants—they were only empowered to make a recommendation as to whether a captive had previously been correctly determined to match the Bush administration's definition of an Wikipedia:enemy combatant.

Summary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Salman Ibrahim Al Khalifa's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 9 September 2004. The memo listed the following allegations against him:

Allegations

Prior to getting access to all the captive's transcript the Wikipedia:Associated Press made available for public download a library of the dossiers from the Combatant Status Review Tribunals of 58 Guantanamo captives that had been released under the United States' Wikipedia:Freedom of Information Act

57 of those dossiers were all over a dozen pages long, some of them were over fifty pages, because they all contained multiple documents.

The 58th dossier was a two page dossier for a captive identified as Salman Ibrahim al Khalifa. It contained a certificate from Wikipedia:Commander Wikipedia:James R. Crisfield, and a Summary of Evidence memo.

The allegations Salman Ibrahim al Khalifa would have faced, during his Tribunal, were:

a. The detainee is associated with the Wikipedia:Taliban and Wikipedia:al Qaeda.

1. Detainee is a citizen of Bahrain who admitted he traveled thru Wikipedia:Malaysia, Wikipedia:Egypt, Wikipedia:Pakistan and then to Wikipedia:Afghanistan in 2001 to study with a mentor who is a known operative and member of the explosives team of al Qaeda.
2. Detainee arrived in Wikipedia:Kabul in June 2001, he then decided to stay indefinitely with his mentor in a house used by foreign fighters.
3. Detainee's mentor was seen escorting soldiers to the front and promoting morale.
4. Detainee admits that in 2001 he gave $5000 (USD) to a main in the Taliban Embassy in Pakistan.
5. Detainee was captured by Pakistan armed forces in the village of Cheman (next to the Pakistan Afghanistan border) while on his way to Wikipedia:Quetta Pakistan.

Al Khalifa's Transcript

Al Khalifa chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal. He did not attend his Tribuanl, but he prepared a written response.

Al Khalifa’s transcript contains a statement Al Khalifa dictated.

Al Khalifa said, in his statement, that he was not part of the Taliban or al Qaida.

Al Khalifa acknowledged traveling to a series of countries. But he had legitimate travel documents for all of them.

Al Khalifa’s statement addressed an allegation that he was a protégé of someone named Wikipedia:Abu Had Qualid. He acknowledged having a mentor, who encouraged him to extend a visit from Pakistan, to Afghanistan. But his name was not Abu Had Qualid.

Al Khalifa’s statement says he was captured in Wikipedia:Pakistan, and that he had a legitimate student visa for Pakistan.

Al Khalifa’s statement acknowledged that he had given someone some money. Al Khalifa’s statement said it was a charitable donation, to help orphans and the poor.

Al Khalifa’s statement said he was captured in Pakistan, where he was living in a foreign student’s residence.

Administrative Review Board hearing

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Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Wikipedia: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 if a detainee continued to pose a threat and should remain in the custody of the United States, or whether the detainee could safely be Wikipedia:repatriated to the custody of their home country or set free.

Summary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Sheikh Salman Ebrahim Mohamed Ali Al Khalifa's Administrative Review Board, on 29 July 2005. The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

The following primary factors favor continued detention

a. Commitment

1. The detainee traveled to Afghanistan after watching a television program encouraging Muslims to go and live there as true believers. He traveled on a special Royal Bahrain passport issued in December 2000.
2. The Crown Prince of Bahrain gave him a new passport to facilitate his travel all around the Wikipedia:Persian Gulf and Middle East.
3. He departed Bahrain on 4 January 2001 for Wikipedia:Karachi and Wikipedia:Islamabad, Pakistan where he stayed for eight days.
4. The detainee then traveled to Wikipedia:Kuala Lumpur, Wikipedia:Malaysia where he stayed for seven weeks at the Concord Hotel form 14 January 2001 to 6 March 2001.
5. The Concord Hotel is a known al Qaida meeting place.
6. The detainee traveled to Wikipedia:Cairo, Wikipedia:Egypt and stayed at the Wikipedia:Cairo Intercontinental Hotel from 7 March 2001 to 27 May 2001. His father wired him $5,000 USD.
7. On 28 May 2001, the detainee traveled from Cairo to Wikipedia:Islamabad and he went to the Taliban Embassy. He gave a Taliban official $500 USD in $100 dollar bills.
8. On 29 May 2001, he and his guide Wikipedia:Muhammad Rusal left Islamabad for Wikipedia:Quetta, Pakistan and went to a Taliban guesthouse.
9. On 30 May 2001, both men left Quetta, Pakistan for Wikipedia:Qandahar, Afghanistan and stayed at a Taliban guesthouse. They met a man named Muhammad Yu'qub who continued traveling with the detainee while Rusal departed.
10. The two men continued onto Qandahar, Afghanistan and stayed in a Taliban guesthouse before departing for Kabul, Afghanistan. The detainee purchased a $150 USD Wikipedia:AK-47 rifle for protection.
11. The detainee was captured by Pakistan Army forces in the village of Wikipedia:Chaman next to the Pakistan/Afghanistan border.
12. The detainee arrived in Pakistan with around $7,000 USD. He gave $5,000 USD to a man in the Taliban embassy in Pakistan.

b. Connections/Associations

1. The detainee has admiteed to a past association with Wikipedia:Al-Gama'at al-Islamiya.
2. The Al-Gama'at Al-Islamiya is Egypt's largest militant group. The Egyptian Government believes that Wikipedia:Iran, Bin Laden, and Afghan militant groups support the organization. It also may obtain some funding through various Islamic nongovernmental organizations.
3. Muhammad Yu'qub met and traveled with the detainee when his previous guide departed.
4. Mohamed Yacoub]] is a native Afghan Taliban fighter who acted as a guide for foreign fighters.
5. The detainee says he spent about five months in Kabul, Afghanistan studying Islam under Wikipedia:Abu Al-Walid. He stayed at Al-Walid's house in the Wikipedia:Wazir Akbar Khan District.
6. Wikipedia:Abu Waleed managed the house that Foreign Taliban fighters often used as a rest and transit point as they moved to and from unidentified front lines.
7. Abu Waleed was well known in Kabul as a teacher of Islam as well as a fighter who participated in the jihad against the Russians.
8. Abu Waleed has been on the front lines near Wikipedia:Bagram. He has asked the fighters to be steadfast and has taken Arab fighters to the front lines and left them there.
9. On a document that lists the names of Wikipedia:al Qaida martyrs who were assigned to various positions and units, Abu Al-Waleed is listed as part of the explosives team.
10. Other reporting states that al Wikipedia:al Qaida operative with the same name as Al-Walid was a commander of the Wikipedia:Dar Wanta Training Camp and a group commander for Usama Bin Laden.
11. The detainee is associated with Wikipedia:Abu Hafz Al-Mauritania, leader of the Wikipedia:Jamaat Lughat Al-Arabiya, a school run by the Taliban near Kandahar, Afghanistan.
12. The detainee was give a place to stay by the Taliban leader of Wikipedia:Khowst, Afghanistan, Wikipedia:Jalaludeen Haggani. Haggani gave all Arabs fleeing the fighting a place to stay.
13. The detainee has been identified as being related to an admitted jihadist who went to Afghanistan to become a martyr.

c. Other Relevant Data

1. The detainee's passport raises doubt as to its authenticity. The seal on the picture and the identification page may not exactly match.
2. It was noted that an unidentified member of the Bahrain Royal Family was one of the foreign fighters that transitioned through the transit house.
3. At least one of the foreign fighters paid $5,000 USD to have unlimited use of the transit house and access to the front line.

The following primary factors favor release or transfer

a.	The detainee claims to bear no grudge against the United States or its allies, and doesn't want his situation to negatively impact the relationship between Bahrain and the United States.
b.	The detainee says he never heard anything derogatory about the United States at political meetings he attended. The detainee attempted suicide at least one time between October 2005 and December 2005 while being held in Guantanamo Bay.

Transcript

Salman Ebrahim Mohamed Ali Al Khalifa's Assisting Military Officer (AMO) reported that he tried to meet with him, but that Salman Ebrahim Mohamed Ali Al Khalifa declined. His AMO reported observations to his board, which were recorded in the unclassified transcript of his hearing. The transcript from Salman Ebrahim Mohamed Ali Al Khalifa's hearing was not published when the Department of Defense complied with a court order and published other captives' transcripts. The Department of Defense has not offered an explanation for not publishing his transcript.

Joshua Colangelo-Bryan's letter to the Administrative Review Board

Wikipedia:Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, Al Khalifa's lawyer, sent a letter to the legal advisor for the Wikipedia:Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants (OARDEC) on January 19, 2005. This letter bears marginal notations, presumably from someone in the OARDEC, that indicate that Al Khalifa's Combatant Status Review Tribunal had been held on December 9, 2004.

Colangelo-Bryan's letter clarified when Al-Khalifa traveled to Afghanistan:

Therefore, even assuming, for argument’s sake, that the allegations in the unclassified summary are true, Mr. Al-Kalifa would have done little more than travel to Afghanistan to study with a scholar prior to the onset of hostilities between the United States and the Taliban.

Colangelo-Bryan's letter contained many redactions. One heavily redacted paragraph states:

With respect to intelligence value, the classified CSRT records contain nothing but the most rank speculation and vague innuendo. ###################### ############# ############ ############ ############### ############## ############ ####### ########### ########## ############## ############# ############# ############ ############ ############# ############# ############ ########### ############ ############ ############ ############### ############## ################ ################ ############# ############# ############ ############ ######### ############# Indeed, to find Mr. Al-Khalifa’s detention is warranted based on supposition of this sort would render meaningless the standards enunciated in the Memorandum, especially considering that Mr. Al-Khalifa has already been interrogated countless times.

Board recommendations

In early September 2007 the Department of Defense released two heavily redacted memos, from his Board, to Wikipedia:Gordon England, the Designated Civilian Official. The Board's recommendation was unanimous The Board's recommendation was redacted. England authorized his transfer on 15 October 2005.

His Board determined: "...ISN 246 continues to be a threat to the United States and its allies."

Release

The Wikipedia:Gulf Daily News announced on November 5, 2005, that Salman had been released, and was one of three Bahraini detainees on their way home.

On Thursday August 23, 2007 the Wikipedia:Gulf Daily News reported that Bahraini Member of Parliament Wikipedia:Mohammed Khalid had called for the Bahrain government to provide financial compensation to the released men.

See also

• Wikipedia:Juma Mohammed Al Dossary
• Wikipedia:Essa Al Murbati
• Wikipedia:Salah Abdul Rasool Al Blooshi
• Wikipedia:Adel Kamel Hajee
• Wikipedia:Abdulla Majid Al Naimi

External links

• 'Help me' plea by Bay detainee, Wikipedia:Gulf Daily News, September 5, 2005
• Three Bahrainis headed home after release from Guantanamo Bay, WFOR, November 4, 2005
• Three Bahraini Guantanamo detainees return home, WFOR, November 5, 2005