Khalid Saud Abd Al Rahman Al Bawardi

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Khalid Saud Abd Al Rahman Al Bawardi is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.^[1] Al Bawardi's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 068. American intelligence analysts estimate that Al Bawardi was born in 1977, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

[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.^[2][3] Three chairs were reserved for members of the press, but only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were observed.^[4]

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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 Bawardi chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.^[5]

[edit] Allegations

The allegations Al Bawardi faced during his Tribunal were:^[5]

a. -- The general summary of the allegations that establish an association with terrorism were missing from the transcript. --

1. The detainee is associated with the Jama'at al Tabligh ^[sic] .
2. Jama'at al Tabligh ^[sic] , a Pakistan based Islamic missionary organization is being used as a cover to mask travel and activities of terrorists, including members of Al Qaeda.
3. The detainee's name appeared on a list of Al Qaeda mujahedin seized from an Al Qaeda safehouse in Pakistan.
4. The detainee was captured with a group of Al Qaeda members.

[edit] Testimony

[edit] Repatriation

A captive named "Khalid al-Baward" was released with thirteen other men on November 12, 2007.^[6] Historian Andy Worthington wrote he:

"...pompously lectured his tribunal about the finer details of Sunni Islamic practice, explained that he had traveled around Pakistan and Afghanistan hectoring his fellow Muslims for their failings - mainly to do with raised graves and good luck charms -and had been handed over to US forces by opportunistic border guards, after crossing into Pakistan after the US-led invasion began."

[edit] References

1. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, April 20, 2006
2. ^ Guantánamo Prisoners Getting Their Day, but Hardly in Court, New York Times, November 11, 2004 - mirror
3. ^ Inside the Guantánamo Bay hearings: Barbarian "Justice" dispensed by KGB-style "military tribunals", Financial Times, December 11, 2004
4. ^ 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.
5. ^ ^{a b} Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Khalid Saud Abd Al Rahman Al Bawardi's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 15-33
6. ^ Andy Worthington. "Innocents and Foot Soldiers: The Stories of the 14 Saudis Just Released From Guantánamo", Huffington Post, November 12, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-11-19.