Adil Zamil al-Zamil

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Adil Zamil Abdull Mohssin Al Zamil

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date_of_birth = Birth date|1963|8|23
place_of_birth = Kuwait City, Kuwait
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detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 568
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
penalty =
status = Repatriated to Kuwait, charged, tried, acquitted
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Adil Zamil Abdull Mohssin Al Zamil is a citizen of Kuwait who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf
title=List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=May 15 2006
accessdate=2007-09-29] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 568.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts report that Al Zamil was born on August 23 1963, in Kuwait City, Kuwait.

Identity

Captive 568 was identified inconsistently on official Department of Defense documents:
* He was named Adel Zamel Abd Al Mahsen Al Zamel on the official list released on April 20 2006. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", April 20 2006]
* He was named 'Adel Zamel 'Abd Al-Mahsen Al-Zamel on the official list released on May 15 2006. [http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006]
* He was named Adil Zamil Abdull Mohssin Al Zamil on the first document in the unclassified dossier from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal. [http://wid.ap.org/documents/detainees/adilalzamil.pdf#19 documents (.pdf)] from
Adil Zamil Abdull Mohssin Al Zamil's "Combatant Status Review Tribunal", August 18 2004, page 19]
* He was named Adel Zamel Abd Al // Mahsen Al Zamel on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his Administrative Review Board.

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

] Three chairs were reserved for members of the press, but only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were observed.cite web
url=http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=3902
title=Annual Administrative Review Boards for Enemy Combatants Held at Guantanamo Attributable to Senior Defense Officials
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=March 6 2007
accessdate=2007-09-22] ]

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 a 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 Adel Zamel Abd Al Mahsen Al Zamel'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000400-000499.pdf#90
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Al Zamel, Adel Zamel Abd Al Mahsen Al Zamel
date=date redacted
pages=page 90
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-04-19] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

Allegations

The allegations Al Zamil faced, during his Tribunal, were: [http://wid.ap.org/documents/detainees/adilalzamil.pdf#19 documents (.pdf)] from
Adil Zamil Abdull Mohssin Al Zamil's "Combatant Status Review Tribunal", August 18 2004, page 19]

:"'a Detainee is associated with al-Qaida.:#The detainee admits establishing the al-Wafa organization with detainee Abu Abdel Aziz (a.k.a. Abdul Aziz al-Matrafi) and Samar Khand in Kabul, Herat and Kandahar, AF. Detainee worked in the Kandahar office.:#The WAFA organization is listed on Executive Order 13224 as an entity that commits or poses a significant risk of committing acts of terrorism.:#Detainee was closely associated with Suliman Abu Ghaith and admits that Ghaith was the spokesperson for al-Qaida and Usama Bin Laden.:#Detainee stayed at a safe house for several weeks in Pakistan while waiting to flee the country. He was arrested at the house with sixteen other persons by Pakistani authorities.:#Detainee had prior knowledge of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S.

Transcript

Al Zamil chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal. cite web
url=http://wid.ap.org/documents/detainees/adilalzamil.pdf#12
title=Summarized Statement
date=August 18 2004
pages=pages 12-16
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-04-19] On March 3 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a five page summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.cite news
url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/US-releases-Guantanamo-files/2006/04/04/1143916500334.html
title=US releases Guantanamo files
publisher=The Age
date=April 4, 2006
accessdate=2008-03-15
quote=]

Testimony

Discussion of Unclassified Evidence

Al Zamil's unclassified dossier contained a three page document entitled: '"Unclassified Summary of basis for Tribunal decision."This document included a section entitled "Discussion of Unclassified Evidence", which stated, "the Tribunal found the following unclassified evidence persuasive in making its determinations:":

Repatriation and Acquittal

Al Zamil was one of five Kuwaitis repatriated to Kuwaiti custody on November 4 2005. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4403498.stm Kuwaitis released from Guantanamo] , "BBC", November 4, 2005]

The five stood trial in a Kuwaiti court, and were acquitted. [http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=22&art_id=vn20060522043620128C944859 Kuwaiti court acquits ex-Guantanamo prisoners] . "Independent Online (South Africa)", May 22 2006]

The Washington Post reported that the two main charges were that the detainees had helped fund Al Wafa, an Afghan charity with ties to Al Qaeda, and that they had fought alongside the Taliban. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/21/AR2006052101476.html 5 Ex-Guantanamo Detainees Freed in Kuwait] , "Washington Post", May 21 2006] Further, the prosecution argued that the detainees actions had endangered Kuwait's political standing and its relaitons with friendly nations.

The detainees'defense had argued that testimony secured in Guantanamo could not be used in Kuwaiti courts, because the detainees and interrogators hadn't signed them. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/21/AR2006052101476.html 5 Ex-Guantanamo Detainees Freed in Kuwait] , "Washington Post", May 21 2006] Further, they had argued, the allegations the USA had directed at them weren't violations of Kuwaiti law.

Al Zamil's trial began in March 2006, and he was acquitted on July 22 2006. [http://www.kuwaittimes.net/Navariednews.asp?dismode=article&artid=326646425 Kuwait's Gitmo men acquitted - again] , "Kuwait Times", July 23 2006]

McClatchy interview

On June 15 2008 the McClatchy News Service published articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives. McClatchy reporters interviewed Adel al Zamel. cite news
url=http://services.mcclatchyinteractive.com/detainees?page=6
title=Guantanamo Inmate Database: Page 6
publisher=McClatchy News Service
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 15 2008
accessdate=2008-06-16
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fservices.mcclatchyinteractive.com%2Fdetainees%3Fpage%3D6&date=2008-06-18 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/611/story/491372.html
title=U.S. hasn't apologized to or compensated ex-detainees
publisher=Myrtle Beach Sun
author=Tom Lasseter
date=Wednesday June 18, 2008
accessdate=2008-06-18
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrtlebeachonline.com%2F611%2Fstory%2F491372.html&date=2008-06-18 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38771.html
title=Pentagon declined to answer questions about detainees
publisher=McClatchy News Service
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 15 2008
accessdate=2008-06-20
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcclatchydc.com%2Fhomepage%2Fstory%2F38771.html&date=2008-06-20 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38776.html
title=Documents undercut Pentagon's denial of routine abuse
publisher=McClatchy News Service
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 16 2008
accessdate=2008-06-20
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcclatchydc.com%2Fhomepage%2Fstory%2F38776.html&date=2008-06-20 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38887.html
title=Deck stacked against detainees in legal proceedings
publisher=McClatchy News Service
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 19 2008
accessdate=2008-06-20
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcclatchydc.com%2Fhomepage%2Fstory%2F38887.html&date=2008-06-20 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38775.html
title=U.S. abuse of detainees was routine at Afghanistan bases
publisher=McClatchy News Service
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 16 2008
accessdate=2008-06-20
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcclatchydc.com%2Fhomepage%2Fstory%2F38775.html&date=2008-06-20 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/60
title=Guantanamo Inmate Database: Adel al Zamel
publisher=McClatchy News Service
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 15 2008
accessdate=2008-06-15
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fservices.mcclatchyinteractive.com%2Fdetainees%2F60&date=2008-08-08 mirror] ]

Adel al Zamel told McClatchy reporters he had worked for the Kuwaiti housing authority until 2000 when he moved to Afghanistan to work for the al Wafa charity, and that he had never been anything more than a charity worker, distributing food and overseeing small infrastructure projects.

Adel al Zamel told McClatchy reporters that he still hadn't recovered from his initial meetings two and a half months earlier, when he was transferred to Guantanamo. He described being shown a diagram, with three names on it, linked by arrows: UBL, Abu Ghaith, "you", linked by arrows. When he denied being linked to Osama bin Laden he was locked, for a month, in a small metal box, with no toilet facilities::

Adel al Zamel told reporters that during 2005, his last year in Guantanamo, interrogators repeatedly threatened that he would be transferred to a torture state, for more brutal interrogation.

Adel al Zamel said that, finally, the interrogators treatment cracked his will, and he told them::

The McClatchy report stated Adel Al Zamel and some associates had been sentenced to a year in prison for an attack on young woman they thought was being too publicly affectionate with her boyfriend.

See also

*Abdul-Aziz al-Shimmiri
*Abdallah Saleh Ali Al Ajmi
*Saad Madhi al-Azmi
*Mohammed Fnaitil al-Dehani

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