Boudella el Hajj

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subject_name = Boudella el Hajj

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date_of_birth = Birth year and age|1965 cite web |date=2006-05-17| url = http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article485410.ece| title = Full list of Guantanamo detainees| format = HTML | publisher = The Independent| accessdate = 2007-08-13 | last=The Independent ]
place_of_birth = -Algeria
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id_number = 10006
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occupation = Worked with Bosnian orphans
spouse = Nađa Dizdarević
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Boudella el Hajj was born in Algeria, moved to Bosnia, married Nađa Dizdarević a Bosnian woman, and became a Bosnian citizen. Boudella, and five associates of his, who were also Bosnians who were born in Algeria were arrested by Bosnian authorities. Local United States intelligence officials said they detected "chatter" that implicated the six in a conspiracy to bomb the Bosnian embassy.

El Hajj's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 10006. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", April 20 2006]

CSRT-Yes [http://wid.ap.org/documents/detainees/boudella.pdf#39 Unsummarized summary of evidence (.pdf)] , from page 39 of Boudella el Hajj's CSRT dossier] cite web
page=9
url=http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Transcript_Set_13_22245-22523.pdf#9
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal Belkacem, Bensayah
date=October 6 2004
publisher=Department of Defense
author=Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants
accessdate=2007-08-19] :"a. The detainee is associated with al Qaida::# "The detainee was arrested with Bensayah Belkacem, a known al Qaida associate, for International Terrorism by the Bosnia-Herzegovina authorities.:# "Bensayah Belkacem had phone conversations with Abu Zubaydah, a senior aide to Usama Bin Laden, who was in charge of screening recruits for al Qaida training camps in Afghanistan..:# "The detainee and others acted as an organized terrorist group and they were in contact with known al Qaida member, Abu Zubaydah.:# "Detainee was arrested by Bosnian authorities in connection with a planned attack on the American embassy.:# "Detainee is a member of the Mujahadin network. Also, detainee is likely a member of Armed Islamic Group of Algeria, a militant organization.:# "Armed Islamic Group of Algeria is on the list of sympathizers and helpers of Usama Bin Laden’s al Qaida.

The Associated Press acquired copies of the unclassified portions of many of the detainees' dossiers. Boudella el Hajj's dossier was one of the 59 Associated Press available for public download. [http://wid.ap.org/documents/detainees/boudella.pdf documents (.pdf)] from Boudella el Hajj's "Combatant Status Review Tribunal"]

Al Hajj chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Transcript_Set_13_22245-22523.pdf Summarized transcript (.pdf)] , from Boudella el Hajj's "Administrative Review Board hearing" - page 43]

Wife hunger strike

On June 2005 Boudella's wife Nađa Dizdarević started the first of several hunger strikes to protest her husbands detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. She said she would end her hunger strike only when she received written confirmation from Bosnia's presidency it would address the issue with Washington. cite web |date=06/12/2005| url = http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=10997| title = Guantanamo Prisoner's Bosnian Wife Begins Hunger Strike| format = HTML | publisher = [http://www.cageprisoners.com cageprisoners.com] | accessdate = 2007-08-13 | last= [http://www.cageprisoners.com cageprisoners.com] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/20/AR2006082000660_pf.html Washington Post: At Guantanamo, caught in a legal trap]
* [http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-11-03-gitmo-detainees_x.htm USA Today: Detainees cases show another side of Gitmo]
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6520816 NPR: listening in on detainee hearings]
* [http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/11/opinion/edhoffer.php International Herald Tribune: Trapped at Guantánamo - Fifth anniversary of an infamy]