Mohammed Rajab Sadiq Abu Ghanim
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| Detained at: | Guantanamo |
| ID number: | 44 |
| Conviction(s): | no charge, held in extrajudicial detention |
Mohammed Rajab Sadiq Abu Ghanim is held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 44.
[edit] 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 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.
There is no record that Mohammed Rajab Sadiq Abu Ghanim chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
[edit] Allegations
A Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his Tribunal states[2]:
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- That he traveled to Afghanistan prior to al Qaeda's attacks on September 11, 2001, to engage in jihad;
- That he had fought in Yemen, Bosnia and Afghanistan;
- That he was associated with al Wafa;
- That he had claimed to have knowledge of future plans to attack the USA.
- That he was associated with the Pakistan-based missionary movement Tablighi Jamaat.
