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Mahrar Rafat Al Quwari
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Mahrar Rafat Al Quwari is a citizen of the Wikipedia:West Bank, held in Wikipedia:extrajudicial detention in the Wikipedia:United States Wikipedia:Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Wikipedia:Cuba.[1] Al Quwari's Guantanamo Wikipedia:Internment Serial Number is 519. The Department of Defense reports that Al Quwari was born on February 18, 1965, in Wikipedia:Gaza, Wikipedia:Palestine.
As of April 23, 2010, Mahrar Rafat al Quwari has been held at Guantanamo for seven years 10 months.[2]
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Combatant Status Review Tribunal
[[Wikipedia:Image:Trailer where CSR Tribunals were held.jpg|thumb|Wikipedia:Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a 3 x 5 meter trailer. The captive sat 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]]]
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.
Allegations
During the winter and spring of 2005 the Department of Defense complied with a Wikipedia:Freedom of Information Act request, and released five files that contained 507 memoranda which each summarized the allegations against a single detainee. These memos, entitled "Summary of Evidence" were prepared for the detainee's Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The detainee's names and ID numbers were redacted from all but one of these memos, when they were first released in 2005. But some of them contain notations in pen. 169 of the memos bear a hand-written notation specifying the detainee's ID number. One of the memos had a notation specifying Al Quwari's detainee ID.[6]
The allegations Al Quwari would have faced, during his Tribunal, were:
- a. The detainee is associated with the Taliban and associated with al Qaida:
- The detainee left Mashad, Iran and headed to Afghanistan seven to eight days before the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.
- While at the al Farouq training camp in Afghanistan, the detainee was in charge of delivering food to caves.
- When Jalalabad was overrun by the Northern Alliance, the detainee fled into the Tora Bora mountain region.
- The detainee admits that he was at the Tora Bora camp and was responsible for distributing supplies from the central supply point.
- The detainee was trying to get to Pakistan and was captured by Norther Alliance forces as he fled Tora Bora, through Wazir Village and on the way to Jalalabad.
- b. The detainee participated in military operations against the United States or its coalition partners:
- The detainee trained in hand weapons at al Farouq and later fought at Kandahar.
- The detainee was at Tora Bora and had responsibility for distributing food and weapons supplies to Taliban and al Qaida soldiers throughout the Tora Bora area, and he often met with and talked on the radio with Usama Bin Laden.
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Al Quwari chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[7]
Experienced the "frequent flyer" program
On August 7, 2008 the Wikipedia:Washington Post reported that the Guantanamo guards defied their orders to discontinue the illegal practice of arbitrarily moving captives multiples times a day to deprive them of sleep.[8] The report stated that Maher Rafat al-Quwari had been one of the captives who was subjected to this practice, called the "frequent flyer program", during his interrogation.
See also
References
- ↑ list of prisoners (.pdf), Wikipedia:US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
- ↑ The New York Times. http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/519-mahrar-rafat-al-quwari.
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- ↑ Guantánamo Prisoners Getting Their Day, but Hardly in Court, Wikipedia:New York Times, November 11, 2004 - mirror
- ↑ Inside the Guantánamo Bay hearings: Barbarian "Justice" dispensed by KGB-style "military tribunals", Wikipedia:Financial Times, December 11, 2004
- ↑ Annual Administrative Review Boards for Enemy Combatants Held at Guantanamo Attributable to Senior Defense Officials. Wikipedia:United States Department of Defense. URL accessed on 2007-09-22.
- ↑ Summary of Evidence memo (.pdf) prepared for Mahrar Rafat Al Quwari's Wikipedia:Combatant Status Review Tribunal - October 6, 2004 - page 112
- ↑ Wikipedia:OARDEC. Summarized Detainee Statement. Wikipedia:United States Department of Defense. URL accessed on 2008-08-07.
- ↑ Josh White (2008-08-07). "Tactic Used After It Was Banned: Detainees at Guantanamo Were Moved Often, Documents Say". Wikipedia:Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/07/AR2008080703004_pf.html. Retrieved 2008-08-07. "One "cell transfer schedule" for detainee 519 -- Maher Rafat al-Quwari -- shows that he was moved six times a day for 12 days in July 2003, with a four-hour interrogation session in the middle." mirror </li> </ol>
External links
- Guantánamo’s refugees Andy Worthington
- More Dubious Charges in the Guantánamo Trials Andy Worthington
