Isa Ali Abdulla Almurbati

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subject_name = Isa Ali Abdulla Almurbati


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date_of_birth = Birth year and age|1965
place_of_birth = Manama, Bahrain
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detained_at = Guantanamo
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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Isa Ali Abdulla Almurbati is a citizen of Bahrain currently held in extrajudicial detention in the American prison for security detainees at the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay. [http://wid.ap.org/documents/detainees/issaalmurbati.pdf documents (.pdf)] from Isa Ali Abdulla Almurbati's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, October 12 2004] Al Murbati's Guantanamo Internee Security Number number is 052. [http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] American counter-terrorism analysts estimate he was born in 1965, in Manama, Bahrain.

Identity

Al Murbati's name was not spelled consistently on official US documents:
*His name was spelled Issa Ali Abdullah Al Murbati on the documents in the unclassified dossier from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
*His name was spelled Isa ali Abdullah Almurbati in his habeas corpus documents.cite web
url=http://www.pegc.us/archive/In_re_Gitmo/order_RBW_20070131.pdf
title=Gherebi, et al. v. Bush, January 31st 2007
date=January 31 2007
publisher=Department of Justice
accessdate=May 16
accessyear=2007]

While held at Kandahar Airfield, al-Muarbati and Moazzam Begg began playing chess on a board the International Red Cross had brought for the detainees., Begg, Moazzam, "Enemy Combatant", 2006.]

Al Murbati participated in the hunger strikes of 2005.cite news
publisher=Gulf Daily News
url=http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/1yr_arc_articles.asp?Article=121195&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=28169&date=9-5-2005
date=Monday September 5, 2005
title='Help me' plea by Bay detainee
author=Abdulrahman Fakhri
accessdate=2007-05-16] cite news
url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/22/international/middleeast/22gitmo.html?ex=1298264400&en=7ea399aeaba6605e&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
title=Forced feeding at Guantanamo is now acknowledged
publisher=New York Times
date=22 February 2006
author=Eric Schmitt, Tim Golden
accessdate=2007-05-16]

Al Murbati has been represented by Joshua Colangelo-Bryan and Clive Stafford Smith.A campaign to free him is being led by Bahraini MP Mohammed Khalid.

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.

Recorder Exchibit List

Unusually Al Murbati's dossier contains an Recorder Exhibit List. [http://wid.ap.org/documents/detainees/issaalmurbati.pdf#13 Recorder Exhibit List (.pdf)] prepared for Isa Ali Abdulla Almurbati's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, September 27 2004]

Allegations

The allegations against Al Murbati, from the Summary of Evidence memo, prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, were: [http://wid.ap.org/documents/detainees/issaalmurbati.pdf#13 Summary of Evidence memo (.pdf)] prepared for Isa Ali Abdulla Almurbati's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, September 15 2004]

:""'a The detainee is associated with Al Qaeda::#"On November 2, 2001, detainee voluntarily traveled from Bahrain to Afghanistan.:#"The detainee traveled to Afghanistan via Pakistan where he planned to fight in the ‘’Jihad’‘.:#"Detainee was a follower of Abu Sayyef; they met in the Philippines. They discussed getting money to Arabs in Afghanistan.:#"Abu Sayyef Group is a known terrorist organization.:""'b The detainee participated in military operations against the United States and its coalition partners.:#"Detainee was injured by a grenade while traveling to Khowst, Afghanistan, and given treatment at a hospital.:#"Detainee was told that if he went to war and fought the Jihad, he would be a better person and have his 15,000 Dinar debt forgiven, and eventually he traveled to Afghanistan.:#"Al Murbati discovered that there was not training available in Kandahar, and since he did not know how to use a Kalisnikov rifle, he traveled to Kabul by taxi, after learning there was training there.

Habeas corpus submission

Al Murbati is one of the sixteen Guantanamo captives whose amalgamated habeas corpus submissions were heard by
US District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton, on January 31 2007.cite web
url=http://www.pegc.us/archive/In_re_Gitmo/order_RBW_20070131.pdf
title=Gherebi, et al. v. Bush
date=January 31 2007
publisher=United States Department of Justice
author=Reggie B. Walton
accessdate=May 19
accessyear=2007]

Release

Al Murbati was released during August 2007. He was the last Bahraini to be released.On Thursday August 23 2007 the "Gulf Daily News" reported that Bahraini Member of Parliament Mohammed Khalid had called for the Bahrain government to provide financial compensation to the released men.cite news
url=http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=191432&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=30156
title=Bay victims may get BD50,000
author=Geoffrey Bew
publisher=Gulf Daily News
date=August 23 2007
accessdate=2007-08-23]

ee also

*Juma Mohammed Al Dossary
*Salah Abdul Rasool Al Blooshi
*Adel Kamel Hajee
*Shaikh Salman Ebrahim Mohamed Ali Al Khalifa
*Abdulla Majid Al Naimi

References

External links

* Bushehri,Shereen [http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4&section=0&article=58574&d=6&m=2&y=2005 Bahrain Urged to Stand Up for Rights of Citizens in Guantanamo] Arab News February 6 2005
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/22/international/middleeast/22gitmo.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Forced feeding at Guantanamo is now acknowledged] , "New York Times", 22 February 2006