Rashid Abd Al Muslih Qaid Al Qa’id

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Rashid Abd Al Muslih Qaid Al Qa’id (born December 20, 1959 in Sakahka,Saudi Arabia) is a citizen of Saudi Arabia who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.^[1] Al Qa'id's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 344.^[2]

[edit] Identity

The official documents from the US Department of Defense, and from the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, Washington DC transliterate Al Qaid's name differently:

• His name was transliterated as Rashid Abd Al Muslih Qaid Al Qa’id on the official lists of names released by the US Department of Defense.^[2]
• His name was transliterated as Rashed Abdulmusleh Qaid Al-Qaid on the press releases from Saudi officials, when he was repatriated on February 21, 2007.^[3]

[edit] 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.^[4][5] Three chairs were reserved for members of the press, but only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were observed.^[6]

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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 Qa’id agreed to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.^[1]

[edit] Allegations

The allegations against Al Qa'id were:

a. The detainee is associated with Al Qaida.

1. On September 2001, the detainee traveled from his home in Saudi Arabia via Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Iran; finally arriving in Afghanistan on 3 October 2001.
2. The detainee traveled with two associates from Saudi Arabia.
3. The detainee and both of his traveling companions, Al Nur and Wasim traveled to carry out charity work in conjunction with a Saudi charity, al-ighatha al-khaira.
4. Al Ighatha is a large Saudi NGO with field offices worldwide, many of which is staffed by or support terrorists or mujahidin. The NGO is link to Al Qaida and other extremist NGO’s.
5. Al Nur was on a list of al Qaida Mujahidin and the al Qaida trust accounts recovered from various computer media seized during raids against al Qaida associated safehouses.
6. The Saudi government designated Al Nur as a priority target and lists him on the “watch and arrest list” for travel to Afghanistan.
7. The Saudi government designated the detainee as a priority target and put him on a watch and arrest order.
8. The detainee was captured by Pakistani forces when he attempted to cross the border from Afghanistan.

[edit] Transfer to Saudi Arabia

Al Qa'id was one of 14 men transferred from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia on June 25, 2006.^[7]

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} transcripts (.pdf) from Rashid Abd Al Muslih Qaid Al Qa’id's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - Page 1-17
2. ^ ^{a b} list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
3. ^ Fourteen Guantanamo detainees returned to the Kingdom. Royal Saudi Embassy, Washington DC (June 25, 2006). Retrieved on March 10, 2007.
4. ^ Guantánamo Prisoners Getting Their Day, but Hardly in Court, New York Times, November 11, 2004 - mirror
5. ^ Inside the Guantánamo Bay hearings: Barbarian "Justice" dispensed by KGB-style "military tribunals", Financial Times, December 11, 2004
6. ^ Annual Administrative Review Boards for Enemy Combatants Held at Guantanamo Attributable to Senior Defense Officials. United States Department of Defense (March 6, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-09-22.
7. ^ Thirteen Saudis and a Turkistani return to Saudi from Guantanamo, Middle East News, June 25, 2006