Assem Matruq Mohammad al Aasmi

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Assem Matruq Mohammad Al Aasmi is a citizen of Wikipedia:Saudi Arabia currently held in Wikipedia:extrajudicial detention in the Wikipedia:United States Wikipedia:Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Wikipedia:Cuba. His Guantanamo Wikipedia:Internment Serial Number is 49.

As of today Assem Matruq Mohammad al Aasmi has been confined in the Guantanamo camps for Template:For year month day, he arrived there on January 23, 2002.

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 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 Combatant Status Review Tribunals (WP). 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 Wikipedia:enemy combatant.

Summary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Assem Matruq Mohammad Al Aasmi's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 16 August 2004. The memo listed the following allegations against him:

• The detainee is an al-Qaida fighter:

1. The detainee admitted he traveled from Palestine to Afghanistan the summer of 2001.
2. The purpose of the detainee's travel to AF was to participate in the jihad.
3. When the detainee arrived in AF, he attended the Al Farouq training camp.
4. At the Al Farouq training camp, the detainee learned how to use the Kalishnakov rifle, a rocket propelled grenade (RPG), a handgun and a "Biki" rifle.
5. Following the 9-11 attacks, the detainee fled to Khost, AF, where he hid in a tent marked with a "Red Cross" symbol.
6. While in Khost, AF, another al-Qaida fighter mishandled a hand grenade, which exploded and severely wounded the detainee.
7. The detainee was smuggled into Pakistan for medical treatment. He was then arrested by Pakistani authorities and turned over to U.S. forces.

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Al Aasmi chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

Habeas petition

Captive 49 had a Wikipedia:habeas corpus petition published on his behalf. But, although the Department of Defense published documents from the CSR Tribunals of 179 captives, they did not publish any of his habeas documents.

In July 2008 the US District Court ruled that his habeas petition was Wikipedia:moot.

Administrative Review Board hearing

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 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.

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

The following primary factors favor continued detention

a. Commitment

1. The detainee admitted he traveled from Wikipedia:Palestine to Afghanistan (AF) in the summer of 2001.
2. The purpose of the detainee's travel to AF was to participate in the Wikipedia:Jihad.
3. The detainee admitted that he was convinced to go to Afghanistan by an individual who might be a recruiter for Wikipedia:al Qaida.

b. Training

1. When the detainee arrived in AF, he attended the Wikipedia:al Farouq training camp.
2. At the al Farouq training camp, the detainee learned how to use the Wikipedia:Kalishnikov Template:Sic rifle, a Wikipedia:rocket propelled grenade (RPG), a handgun and a "Biki" rifle.

c. Intent

1. The detainee admits that he supports the actions of Wikipedia:Usama Bin Ladin and others who commit acts of terrorism.
2. The detainee stated that he moderately supports the beliefs and actions of the Wikipedia:Taliban.
3. The detainee admitted that he has lied on previous interviews with interrogators.

The following primary factors favor release or transfer

Detainee stated during his CSRT that he "was not an Enemy Combatant to Americans." He alleges that he never went from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia and to Afghanistan for Wikipedia:Jihad; his intention was not for fighting. He went on to say that "My faith does not allow me to go all the way to Afghanistan to do Jihad before doing my duty in my home country".Template:Sic

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Al Aasmi chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.

External links

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External links

• The Guantánamo Files: Website Extras (9) – Seized in Pakistan (Part One) Andy Worthington