Habib Noor

Habib Noor is an Afghani 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 (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] Habib Noor's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 1041.American intelligence analysts estimate that Noor was born in 1968, in
Mangal Village, Afghanistan.

According to the Associated Press the allegations against Nasir, in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, stated he owned a compound: "...that harbored attackers who ambushed U.S. special forces and Afghan soldiers in Khost province. [http://www.wtop.com/index.php?nid=389&sid=727171&page=7 Sketches of Guantanamo Detainees-Part I] , "WTOP", March 15 2006] " But Noor said he wasn't even home at the time of the alleged ambush.

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 date=December 2007

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.

Noor chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal. [http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_16_1363-1446.pdf#7 Summarized transcripts (.pdf)] , from Habib Noor's "Combatant Status Review Tribunal" - pages 7-12]

Allegations

The allegations Noor faced during his CSRT were::""'a. The detainee supported anti-coalition forces engaged in hostilities against the United States and its coalition partners.:#"The detainee owns the compound that several individuals fled to after ambushing United States Special Forces and Afghanistan Military Forces.:#"The detainee knows one of the attackers who ambushed United States Special Forces and Afghanistan Military Forces.:#"Afghanistan Military Forces in Lalmai Village, Khowst Province, Afghanistan detained the detainee.

Testimony

Noor said he was at work during the time of the alleged attack. He said the soldiers who captured him said they saw his brother go into his compound after an attack. Noor has two brothers. His younger brother was working in Saudi Arabia. His older brother is deaf and almost completely blind.

He was extremely skeptical of this allegation because his wife would not admit any man, even one of his brothers, if he wasn't home.

Determined not to have been an Enemy Combatant

The Washington Post reports that Noor was one of 38 detainees who was determined not to have been an enemy combatant during his Combatant Status Review Tribunal. [http://projects.washingtonpost.com/guantanamo/nlec/ Guantanamo Bay Detainees Classifed as "No Longer Enemy Combatants"] , "Washington Post"] They report that Noor has been released.The Department of Defense refers to these men as No Longer Enemy Combatants.

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