Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz

Ahmed Ould Abdel Azizis a citizen of Mauritanian, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. [http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 757.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts report that he was born on February 24 1970, Atar, Mauritania.

Identity

Captive 757's name was spelled incosistently on various official documents released by the United States Department of Defense.
* Captive 757 is called Ahmed Abdel Aziz on the official list of all Guantanamo captives, released on May 15 2006.
* Captive 757 is called Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz on the official list of captives whose earlier determination as an "enemy combatants" was reconsiderd by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal] , and on various official memos and lists released in September of 2007. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", April 20 2006] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000500-000599.pdf#100
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Aziz, Ahmed Ould Abdel
publisher=United States Department of Defense
author=OARDEC
date=November 1 2004
pages=pages 100-101
accessdate=2007-10-10] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000595-000693.pdf#60
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Aziz, Ahmed Ould Abdel
publisher=United States Department of Defense
author=OARDEC
date=November 8 2005
pages=pages 60-61
accessdate=2007-10-10] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_CSRT_unclassified_summaries.pdf
title=Index for Combatant Status Review Board unclassified summaries of evidence
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=July 17 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_1_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf
title=Index to Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round One
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=August 9 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_2_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf
title=Index of Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round Two
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=July 17 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29]
* Captive 757 is called Akhmed Aziz on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his second annual Administrative Review Board on September 20 2006.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_799-899.pdf#6
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Aziz, Akhmed
publisher=United States Department of Defense
author=OARDEC
date=September 20 2006
pages=pages 6-9
accessdate=2007-10-10]

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.

ummary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 1 November 2004.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000500-000599.pdf#100
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Aziz, Ahmed Ould Abdel
date=1 November 2004
pages=pages 100-101
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-02-26] There were 23 allegations listed on Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz's Summary of Evidence memo, including:
* That he traveled to Afghanistan in 1999.
* That he attended the celebration of al-Zawahiri joining al Qaida.
* That he fought for the Taliban.
* That he stayed at al Qaeda guest houses in Kabul and Jalalabad.
* That he trained at Afghan military camps.
* Thae he had spoken with Usama bin Ladin, and attended his son's wedding.
* That someone from al Qaeda arranged a wedding for him.

Transcript

There is no record that captive 757 chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

Administrative Review Board hearing

Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings. The Administrative Review Boards weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".

They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat -- or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free. XXX chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.

First annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for captive 757's first annual Administrative Review Board, on November 8 2005.

econd annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for captive 757's second annual Administrative Review Board, on September 20 2006.Captive 757's was named Akhmed Aziz on this memo -- a name inconsistent with all the other documents released by the DoD.

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