Abd Al Rahman Abdullah Ali Muhammad

From dKosopedia

Category: Guantanamo Bay detainees

Abd Al Rahman Abdullah Ali Muhammad is a citizen of Yemen held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[5] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 224. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts report he was born in 1982, in Sinai, Yemen.

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.[1][2] Three chairs were reserved for members of the press, but only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were observed.[3]

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

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Abd Al Rahman Abdullah Ali Muhammad's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 6 December 2004.pages 43-44 The memo listed the following allegations against him:

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

1. The detainee voluntarily traveled from Sanna, Yemen to Kabul, Afghanistan via Pakistan in July or August 2001.
2. A member of the Jama'at Tablighi helped financed Template:Sic the detainee's trip to Afghanistan.
3. Jama'at Al Tablighi, a Pakistan based Islamic missionary organization is being used as a cover to mask travel and activities of terrorists including members of al Qaida.
4. The detainee stayed at a known Taliban safe house near Kabul, Afghanistan for a period of one month after 11 September, 2001.
5. The detainee's name was found on a list of al Qaida Mujahidin]] and contents of their "trust accounts" found during raids on al Qaida safe houses in Pakistan conducted in September 2002 and March 2003.

b. The detainee participated in military operations against the United States and its coalition partners.

1. The detainee was identified in the Islamic press as one of 76 persons fighting with the Taliban against the Northern Alliance.

Transcript

There is no record that Abd Al Rahman Abdullah Ali Muhammad participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

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 Administrative Review Board hearings.[6] 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

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Abd Al Rahman Abdullah Ali Muhammad's first annual Administrative Review Board, on 20 July 2005.pages 64-66 The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

The following primary factors favor continued detention:

a. Commitment

1. The detainee visited the Taliban Office in Quetta, Pakistan seeking a teaching job in Afghanistan.
2. The detainee was sent by car to a known Taliban house, run by Kari Bilal, 10 to 15 minutes west of Kabul. There were typically 5-20 personnel armed with AK-47s at the house.
3. Kari Bilal has been identified as the manager of the Said House in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghan men would stay at the house before moving on to the front lines in Bagram, Afghanistan.
4. Kari Bilal was the commander of the Moasqr Kari Bilal Training Camp, responsible for training Taliban soldiers for the frontline in Bagram, Afghanistan. Kari Bilal was also the commander of approximately 15 fighters along the Bagram front.

b. Connections/Associations

1. The detainee's father is a member of Jamat al Tabligh and the Al-Islah political party in Yemen. On of his father's friends, Hatim Moutawakel, is also a member of Tablique Jammat and helped the organizaiton build a mosque in Al-Akroa, Yemen.
2. The detainee borrowed 40,000 Yemeni riyals from Hatim Moutawakel. The detainee knew Moutawakel owned several businesses in surrounding cities, but the detainee claimed no knowledge of their type of location. The detainee was to pay the money back to Moutawakel upon his return to Yemen.
3. Jamat al Tabligh, a Pakistani-based Islamic missionary organization, is being used as a cover to mask travel and activities of terrorists including member of al Qaida.
4. The detainee's name and variant was located on a computer file consisting of a list of contact number for captured al Qaida mujahedeen scheduled to fight in Afghanistan. Pakistani authorities seized this computer media during a joint raid conducted against al Qaida associated safehouses in Rawalpindi on 1 March 2003.
5. A variant of the detainee's name was on a list of captured mujahideen located on a hard drive associated with a senior al Qaida operative.
6. The detainee's name and variant of his alias was found on a document listing 324 Arabic names, aliases and nationalities recovered from safehouse raids associated with suspected al Qaida in Karachi, Pakistan. According to the document, the detainee was in possession of several items, including a Saudi passport, ticket, and ID cards.
7. On 14 December 2001, Pakistani authorities captured 84 mujahideen fighters fleeing Afghanistan. The detainee's name is located on a document published on the internet in July 2002 containing information regarding the capture of these Taliban and al Qaida fighters who had crossed the border in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.
8. The detainee's name is on a letter listing 68 probabale al Qaida members incarcerated in Pakistan. An undated handwritten letter was recovered, along with materials linked to al Qaida, by allied personnel. The letter provided a list of names of incarcerated Arabs with their aliases and countries of origin, along with encouragement to incite the people against the Pakistani government.

c. Intent

The detainee has assaulted the guards and remains uncooperative and disruptive, spits on the guard force, and incites disturbances. Detainee has great disdain for the guard personnel, as well as Americans, and has threatened to kill or harm members of the guard force on several occasions.

d. Other Relevant Data

The detainee was assessed as not particularly forthcoming in interviews and, in addition to having a bad attitude, to holding back on information regarding extremist and al Qaida activities in Afghanistan and Yemen.

The following primary factors favor release or transfer:

a.	The detainee deined having any knowledge of the attacks in the U.S. prior to their execution on September 11th.
b.	The detainee denied receiving any weapons during his one-month stay in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Second annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Abd Al Rahman Abdullah Ali Muhammad's second annual Administrative Review Board, on 28 March 2006.pages 46-48 The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.