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Fahmi Abdullah Ahmed is a Yemeni currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1977, in Debab, Yemen. The DOD assigned him the Internment Serial Number 688.

As of today Fahmi Abdullah Ahmed has been confined in the Guantanamo camps for 21 years, 9 months, and 1 day. He arrived there on June 18, 2002.[2][3][4]

Combatant Status Review Tribunal[]

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Combatant Status Review Tribunals were usually held in a trailer.

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.

Allegations[]

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for his CSR Tribunal.[4][5] The allegations Ahmed faced, during his Tribunal, were:

a The detainee is associated with al Qaida:
  1. The detainee is Yemeni and was captured by Pakistani authorities in Faisalabad, Pakistan.
  2. The detainee was identified by a senior al Qaida operational planner as having been a resident at a safehouse located in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2001.
  3. The detainee was identified by a senior al Qaida facilitator as having been a resident at a safehouse located in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2000. This individaul [sic?] also saw the detainee at a safehouse located in Faisalabad, Pakistan in February 2002 with a group of Yemenis who had fled Afghanistan.
b The detainee participated in military operations against the United States or its coalition partners.
  1. The detainee was present on the front lines in Bagram, Afghanistan.


Detainee election form[]

Transcript[]

Ahmed chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[6][7] A thirteen page transcript was published multiple times. In 2005 it was one of 58 factual returns prepared for Guantanamo captives' attorneys who were preparing habeas corpus petitions. It was published again on March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from US District Court Judge Jed Rakoff.[8]

Administrative Review Board hearing[]

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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".[9]

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 were not authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they were not 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 Ahmed were among the 121 that the Department of Defense released on March 3, 2006.[10]

The following primary factors favor continued detention

a. Commitment
  1. The detainee traveled from Yemen to Karachi, Pakistan and then on to Faisalabad, Pakistan.
b. Connection
  1. The detainee was identified by a senior al Qaida operational planner as having been a resident at a safehouse located in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2001.
  2. The detainee waa identified by a senior al Qaida facilitator as having been a resident at a safehouse located in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2000. This individual also saw the detainee at a safehouse located in Faisalabad, Pakistan in February 2002 with a group of Yemenis who had fled Afghanistan.
c. Intent
  1. The detainee was present on the front lines in Bagram, Afghanistan.
  2. Detainee has been identified as helping to transport equipment and wounded near the front lines.


The following primary factors favor release or transfer

a. Detainee denied ever going to Afghanistan.
b. Detainee stated that he got $3500 from his mother to travel to Pakistan and open a fabric store.
c. Detainee stated that he worked for a year and a half as a security guard in Karachi, Pakistan.


Transcript[]

Ahmed chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.[11]

References[]

  1. OARDEC (2006-05-15). "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-29. 
  2. JTF-GTMO (2007-03-16). "Measurements of Heights and Weights of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba". Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/measurements/. Retrieved 2008-12-22.  mirror
  3. "Measurements of Heights and Weights of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (ordered and consolidated version)". Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas, from DoD data. Archived from the original on 2009-12-21. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhumanrights.ucdavis.edu%2Fresources%2Flibrary%2Fdocuments-and-reports%2Fgtmo_heightsweights.pdf&date=2009-12-21. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Guantanamo Docket: Fahmi Abdullah Ahmed [1] 2008-11
  5. OARDEC (2004-10-27). "Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Ahmed, Fahmi Abdullah". United States Department of Defense. p. 24. http://wid.ap.org/documents/detainees/fahmiahmed.pdf#24. Retrieved 2010-05-17. 
  6. OARDEC (date redacted). "Summarized Unsworn Detainee Transcript". United States Department of Defense. pp. 12–22. http://wid.ap.org/documents/detainees/fahmiahmed.pdf#12-22. Retrieved 2010-05-17. 
  7. OARDEC (date redacted). "Summarized Unsworn Detainee Transcript". United States Department of Defense. pp. 103–112. http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/Set_4_0320-0464.pdf#103-112. Retrieved 2010-05-17.  fast mirror
  8. US releases Guantanamo files [2] April 4, 2006
  9. Review process unprecedented [3] Spc Timothy Book March 10, 2006
  10. The Guantanamo Docket - ARB 1 Summaries - Fahmi Abdullah Ahmed
  11. The Guantanamo Docket - ARB 1 Transcript - Fahmi Abdullah Ahmed

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