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Abdullah Muhammed Abdel Aziz is a citizen of Wikipedia:Saudi Arabia who was held in Wikipedia:extrajudicial detention in the Wikipedia:United States Wikipedia:Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Wikipedia:Cuba.^[1] His Guantanamo Wikipedia:Internment Serial Number was 206. Wikipedia:Joint Task Force Guantanamo report that he was born on September 8, 1967, in Al Medina Menawa, Saudi Arabia.

He was captured in Afghanistan in December 2001 and transferred to Saudi Arabia on December 13, 2006.^[2]

Combatant Status Review Tribunal[edit]

Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a trailer the size of a large RV. The captive sat on a plastic garden chair, with his hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor.^[3][4] Three chairs were reserved for members of the press, but only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were observed.^[5]Template:POV-section

Initially the Bush Presidency 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 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 Presidency's definition of an enemy combatant.

Summary of Evidence memo[edit]

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Abdullah Muhammed Abdel Aziz's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 4 October 2004.^[6] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

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

1. The detainee traveled to Afghanistan to receive weapons training in the summer of 2001.
2. The detainee received weapons training on the Kalishnikov rifle and PG machine gun Template:sic at a training camp outside Kabul, Afghanistan.
3. The detainee lived in a rest house used for billeting fighters in Kabul, Afghanistan.

b. The detainee supported hostilities in aid of enemy armed forces:

1. The detainee traveled to the frontlines near Konduz, Afghanistan.
2. The detainee was issued a Kalishnikov Template:sic rifle and ammunition.
3. The detainee traveled with Taliban fighters in a Taliban convoy to Mazar-E-Sharif.

Transcript[edit]

There is no record that chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

Administrative Review Board hearing[edit]

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".^[7]

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.

First annual Administrative Review Board[edit]

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Abdullah Muhammed Abdel Aziz's first annual Administrative Review Board, on 15 March 2005.^[8] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

Transcript[edit]

Abdullah Muhammed Abdel Aziz attended this Board hearing.^[9] The Department of Defense released a five page summarized transcript.

Second annual Administrative Review Board[edit]

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Abdullah Muhammed Abdel Aziz's second annual Administrative Review Board, on 3 March 2006.^[10] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

Board recommendations[edit]

In early September 2007 the Department of Defense released two heavily redacted memos, from his Board, to Gordon England, the Designated Civilian Official.^[11][12]

• The Board's recommendation was unanimous
• The Board's recommendation was redacted.
• England authorized transfer on August 14 2006.

References[edit]

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