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• Rami Bin Said Al Taibi
• Abdullah Hamid Mohammed Al-Qahtani
• Said Muhammad Husayn Qahtani
• Khalid Malu Shia al Ghatani
• Jabir Hasan Muhamed Al Qahtani
• Abu Ubaydh Al Tunisis
• Mohammed Abdel-Rahman al-Rashed
• Abdullah Muhammed Abdel Aziz
• Sa ad Ibraham Sa ad Al Bidna
• Fahd Salih Sulayman Al Jutayli
• Mohammed Abdel-Rahman al-Rashed
• Sultan Radi al-Utaibi
• Ahmed Owaidan Al-Harbi

Rami Bin Said Al Taibi

Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rami Bin Said Al Taibi Template:Infobox WoT detainees Rami Bin Said Al Taibi (Template:Lang-ar) or Rami al-Juaid is a Saudi Arabian who was held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. Al Taibi's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 318. The Department of Defense reports that Al Taibi was born on December 24, 1980, in Ta'if, Saudi Arabia.

Background

Al Taibi claimed he traveled to Afghanistan for religious training. Rami Bin Said al Taibi was transferred to Saudi Arabia on Sept. 5, 2007.

Combatant Status Review

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for his tribunal.

a. The detainee is associated with al Qaida:

1. The detainee traveled to Afghanistan from Saudi Arabia in approximately August 2001.
2. The detainee received training at a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan.
3. The detainee's name was included in a computer file recovered from an al Qaida safehouse in Islamabad that listed prisoners currently incarcerated in Pakistan.
4. The detainee's name was found in a document recovered from an al Qaida safehouse in Karachi.
5. The detainee's name was listed as al Qaida Mujahidin who had not yet completed training in a document recovered from an al Qaida safehouse in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
6. One of the detainee's known aliases was on a list of captured al Qaida members that was discovered on a computer hard drive associated with a senior al Qaida member.

External links

• Guantánamo: The Stories Of The 16 Saudis Just Released Andy Worthington

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

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. Three chairs were reserved for members of the press, but only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were observed.Template:POV-section

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.

Testimony

− Al Taibi chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

Al Taibi denied any relationship with al Qaeda.

He acknowledged traveling to Afghanistan for training - religious training.

He was sure that the name of the person who participate in Mujahidin training was not his.

He has no aliases, so no aliases of his could be found in safehouses, or on captured hard drives, because he didn’t have any aliases.

He said that as the only son in his family he was exempt from being conscripted into a jihad, and he had an official document, a hathwa, confirming this.

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.

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Allegations

− A memorandum summarizing the evidence against Al Taibi prepared for his Combatan Status Reiew Tribunal, was among those released in March 2005.

− − The allegations Al Taibi faced were:

Abdullah Hamid Mohammed Al-Qahtani

Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abdullah Hamid al Qahtani

For other individuals named Al Qahtani, or some variant thereof, see Al Qahtani (disambiguation).

Abdullah Hamid Mohammed Al-Qahtani (Arabic: عبد الله حامد القحطاني) is a Saudi Arabian citizen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba. His detainee ID is 652. US intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1979, in Mecca.

Identity

The official documents from the US Department of Defense, and from the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, Washington DC transliterate Al Otaibi's name differently:

• His name was transliterated as Abdullah Hamid Al Qahtani on the official lists of names released by the US Department of Defense.
• His name was transliterated as Abdullah Hamid Mohammed Al-Qahtan on the press releases from Saudi officials, when he was repatriated on May 19 2006.
• His name was transliterated as Abdullah Al Quatany on the official list of captives whose habeas corpus petitions should be dismissed following their transfer from US custody.
• His name was transliterated as Abdullah Hamid Musleh Qahtany on the official list of captives whose habeas corpus petitions should be dismissed following their transfer from US custody.

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. 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.

Summary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Abdullah Hamid Al Qahtani's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 14 October 2004. The memo listed the following allegations against him:

The detainee is associated with al Qaida:

1. The detainee departed Saudi Arabia in February 2001 and arrived in Afghanistan in August 2001 via Pakistan.
2. The detainee worked for al Wafa in its offices in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
3. Al Wafa is listed on the U.S. State Department's Terrorist Exclusion list, which identifies it as an organization that has been found to either commit, or incite to commit, a terrorist activity; prepare or plan a terrorist activity; gather information on potential targets for terrorist activity; or provide material support to further terrorist activity.
4. While working for al Wafa, the detainee came in contact with one of the leaders of the al Wafa organization.
5. This individual has close ties to al Qaida and Usama Bin Laden.
6. The detainee worked for the Al Wafa organization.

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".

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.

Summary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Abdullah Hamid Al Qahtani's Administrative Review Board, on 3 June 2005. The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

The following primary factors favor continued detention:

a. Commitment

1. The detainee departed Saudi Arabia in February 2001 and arrived in Afghanistan in August 2001 via Pakistan.
2. Prior to being turned over to U.S. forces, the detainee had $5000 in his possession. The detainee claims that the Afghan troops, which beat him and his cousin, seized $3000 and did not find the other $2000 hidden in his clothes.

b. Connections/Associations

1. The detainee worked for al Wafa in its offices in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
2. The detainee was recruited to work for al Wafa in Afghanistan by the leader of al Wafa.
3. The same al Wafa leader who recruited the detainee paid for the detainee's travel to Pakistan.
4. The same al Wafa leader who recruited the detainee and the detainee's father had been employed together in Saudi Arabia.
5. The same al Wafa leader who recruited the detainee has close ties to Usama Bin Laden.
6. Al Wafa is listed on the U.S. State Department's Terrorist Exclusion list, which identifies it as an organization that has been found to either commit, or incite to commit, a terrorist activity; prepare or plan a terrorist activity; gather information on potential targets for terrorist activity; or provide material support to further terrorist activity.
7. Al Wafa activities in Afghanistan include the purchase of weapons and chemical warfare equipment, suspicious money transactions, providing a cover to smuggle Usama Bin Laden operatives and sympathizers to Afghanistan, knowledge of a possible pending attack against American interests, and providing employment opportunity and cover to Usama Bin Laden connecting operatives.
8. In anticipation of the American attack, military training on AK-47's Template:sic and rocket-propelled grenades was provided in al Wafa's Kabul offices.
9. The detainee traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan with his cousin.
10. The detainee and his cousin worked with Mohammed Afgha.
11. Mohammed Agha was the liaison between the al Wafa Organization and the Taliban Government.
12. The detainee's cousin has issued a Fatwah against the United States.

c. Other Relevant Data

1. The detainee was offered $800 to $1,000 per month to work for al Wafa.
2. Detainee claims his Afghan captors took his passport.
3. Detainee had a roll of 20 $100 USD dollar bills when turned over to U.S. Forces.

The following primary factors favor release or transfer:

a.	The detainee said the only reason he went to Afghanistan was to pick up money owed to him by a senior al Wafa principal.
b.	During his employment at al Wafa, the detainee was never asked to nor did he handle weapons of any kind.
c.	The detainee had no knowledge that the employees at the Lahore of Kabul al Wafa warehouses were associated with al Qaida or the Taliban. He never observed weapons in the Lahore warehouse.
d.	The detainee has an extreme dislike of the Taliban and al Qaida. He believes they are the cause of his current detention, and that Usama Bin Laden is no different that Template:sic a common criminal. The detainee would not consider supporting Usama Bin Laden or his distorted causes.
e.	Neither the detainee, nor anyone he knows, had prior knowledge of the September 11, 2001 attacks or knowledge of future attacks against the United States or its interests.
f.	The detainee does not blame the United States Government for detaining people as the result of the attacks on America. He is grateful toward the United States, which he believes saved his life after he was captured by the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan.
g.	The detainee intends to marry and seek employment upon his return to Saudi Arabia. He would not return to Pakistan or Afghanistan.

Transcript

Captive 652 did not attend his Board. But he did meet with his Assisting Military Officer. His Assisting Military Officer summarized his responses to the factors to his Board. The Assisting Military Officer's report on his interview takes place during the Board's unclassified session. The Department of Defense has not indicated why they withheld the transcript from the Board's unclassified session.

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. Captive 652's Board's recommendation was unanimous. The redactions concealed the Board's recommendation.

Captive 652's Board's considered assessments from the FBI, the CIA, and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs.

Repatriation

The Saudi embassy announced that a Saudi named Abdullah Hamid Mohammed Al-Qahtani was one of fifteen Guantanamo captives repatriated to Saudi Arabia on May 19 2006.

Guantanamo record

− − There is no record that Al Qahtani chose to participate in either his Combatant Status Review Tribunal or Administrative Review Board.

Said Muhammad Husayn Qahtani

Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Said Muhammad Husayn Qahtani

Template:Infobox War on Terror detainee Said Muhammad Husayn Qahtani is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 200. American counter-terrorism analysts estimate he was born in 1978, in Khamees Mushail, Saudi Arabia.

As of today Said Muhammad Husayn Qahtani has been confined in the Guantanamo camps for Template:For year month day, he arrived there on February 15, 2002.

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

• He was alleged to have been associated with al Qaida and associated with the Taliban.
• He was alleged to have been trained at the Kubah training camp and other Afghan training camps/
• He was alleged to have travelled to Afghanistan in April 2001 in response to a fatwa.
• He was alleged to have stayed at a Rawibandy Template:sic, Pakistan safe house in May 2000 with a high ranking al Qaida official.
• He was alleged to have served on the Taliban's front lines.
• He was alleged to have fled through Tora Bora, and to have been captured by Pakistani Forces on 18 December 2001 near Parachinar, Pakistan.

Transcript

Said chose to participate in his Tribunal. On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a twelve page summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

Salam Abdullah Said v. George W. Bush

Saad Al Qahtani was one of five Saudi who had a petition of habeas corpus filed on their behalf December 13, 2005, in Salam Abdullah Said v. George W. Bush. In September 2007 the Department of Justice published dossiers of unclassified documents arising from the Combatant Status Review Tribunals of 179 captives.

Seizure of privileged lawyer-client documents

On June 10, 2006 the Department of Defense reported that three captives died in custody. The Department of Defense stated the three men committed suicide. Camp authorities called the deaths "an act of asymmetric warfare", and suspected plans had been coordinated by the captive's attorneys—so they seized all the captives' documents, including the captives' copies of their habeas documents. Since the habeas documents were privileged lawyer-client communication the Department of Justice was compelled to file documents about the document seizures.

Military Commissions Act

The Military Commissions Act of 2006 mandated that Guantanamo captives were no longer entitled to access the US civil justice system, so all outstanding habeas corpus petitions were stayed.

Boumediene v. Bush

On June 12, 2008 the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Boumediene v. Bush, that the Military Commissions Act could not remove the right for Guantanamo captives to access the US Federal Court system. And all previous Guantanamo captives' habeas petitions were eligible to be re-instated.

Request for his habeas corpus petition to be re-instated

On July 18, 2008 David W. DeBruin filed a renewal for the habeas corpus of two of the five captives in Said v. Bush. The petition stated that three of the captives had been repatriated. Saad Al Qahtani and Mohammed Zahrani were listed as captives who were still in detention in Guantanamo, who were requesting having their habeas petition re-instated.

Saudi Arabian captives had represented the largest group of foreigners apprehended in Afghanistan and transported to Guantanamo. But, by the end of 2007 almost all the Saudis had been sent home.

External links

• Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (1 of 2) Andy Worthington, September 22, 2010