Issam Hamid Al Bin Ali Al Jayfi
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Issam Hamid Al Bin Ali Al Jayfi is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba. http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)], US Department of Defense, April 20 2006 His detainee ID number is 183.
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.
Al Jayfi chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[Summarized transcripts (.pdf)], from Issam Hamid Al Bin Ali Al Jayfi'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 13-22
allegations
- ''a The detainee is associated with al Qaida:
- #''The detainee was told that the Saudi Arabian and Yemeni governments had issued Fatwahs to the jihad in Afghanistan.
- #''The detainee voluntarily traveled to Afghanistan from Yemen via Pakistan in August 2001.
- #''The detainee believes that a jihad recruiter and financier obtained his passport and paid for his travel to Afghanistan.
- #''The detainee stayed at a guesthouse in Kabul for seven weeks.
- #''The detainee stayed at a guesthouse in Jalalabad for one month.
- #''The detainee advised that he was provided his accommodation, food and necessities at no cost.
- #''The detainee has familial ties to an individual who was scheduled to travel to California/San Francisco with associates of the September 11 hijackers.
- #''The detainee’s telephone number was found in the pocket litter of another detainee along with the telephone number of a Mujahideen who trained at an al Qaida camp and extensive notes on electronic and radio theory.
- ''b The detainee participated in military operations against the coalition.
- #''The detainee most likely carried an AK-47 rifle in Afghanistan.
- #''The detainee joined the Taliban forces for approximately one month before Kabul fell to the Northern Alliance.
- #''The detainee surrendered to Dostum Forces at Mazar-E-Sharif without identification documents.
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