Omar Said Salim Al Dayi

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Abdul Rahim is held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.^[1] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 549.

[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Combatant Status Review Tribunal notice read to a Guantanamo captive. During the period July 2004 through March 2005 a Combatant Status Review Tribunal was convened to make a determination whether they had been correctly classified as an "enemy combatant". Participation was optional. The Department of Defense reports that 317 of the 558 captives who remained in Guantanamo, in military custody, attended their Tribunals.

Initially the Bush Presidency 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 Presidency's definition of an enemy combatant.

[edit] Summary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Omar Said Salim Al Dayi's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 13 October 2004.^[2] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

a. The detainee is an al Qaida member:

1. The detainee traveled from Sana, Yemen to Afghanistan via Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Karachi/Quetta, Pakistan in August 2001.
2. The detainee traveled to Kandahr ^[sic] , Afghanistan for weapons training.

b. The detainee participated in military operations against the United States or its coalition partners.

1. The detainee was an Arab fighter in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan.
2. The detainee was armed with a Kalashnikov ^[sic] rifle in Tora Bora.
3. The detainee was arrested in Jalalabad by U.S. forces.

[edit] Transcript

There is no record that Omar Said Salim Al Dayi participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

[edit] References

1. ^ OARDEC (May 15, 2006). List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
2. ^ OARDEC (13 October 2004). Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal - Al Dayi, Omar Said Salim page 64. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2008-01-15.