Ahmed Adil

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Ahmed Adil

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image_caption = Ahmed Adil
date_of_birth = Birth year and age|1973
place_of_birth = Kashgar, China
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detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 260
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
penalty =
status = Transferred to a refugee camp in Albania.
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Ahmed Adil is a citizen of China, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment 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
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2006-05-15
quote=] Adil's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 260.American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1973, in Kashgar, China.

Adil is one of approximately two dozen detainees from the Uyghur ethnic group. [http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FK04Ad02.html China's Uighurs trapped at Guantanamo] , "Asia Times", November 4 2004] Adil is one of approximately half a dozen Uyghurs whose Combatant Status Review Tribunals determined they were not enemy combatants after all. [http://projects.washingtonpost.com/guantanamo/nlec/ Guantanamo Bay Detainees Classifed as "No Longer Enemy Combatants"] , "Washington Post"] cite news
url=
title=Detainees Found to No Longer Meet the Definition of "Enemy Combatant" during Combatant Status Review Tribunals Held at Guantanamo
publisher=United States Department of Defense
author=
date=November 19, 2007
accessdate=2008-04-15
quote=] Five of the Uyghurs were transferred to Albania.cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6189517.stm
title=Albanian fix for Guantanamo Dilemma
publisher=BBC
date=January 11, 2007
accessdate=2008-04-25
quote=] Several others had new Tribunals convened that reversed the earlier determination.cite web
url=http://law.shu.edu/news/final_no_hearing_hearings_report.pdf
title=No-hearing hearings
page=17
author=Mark Denbeaux, Joshua Denbeaux, David Gratz, John Gregorek, Matthew Darby, Shana Edwards, Shane Hartman, Daniel Mann, Megan Sassaman and Helen Skinner
publisher=Seton Hall University School of Law
accessdate=April 2
accessyear=2007]

:
*Adil confirmed he agreed to be shown how to use the AK-47 -- in case there was an armed struggle between the Chinese and the Uyghurs.
*Adil described his group crossing over into Pakistan, being welcomed in a Pakistani border village, only to be handed over to Pakistani authorities.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_12_1179-1239.pdf#56
title=Summarized Statement
date=date redacted
pages=pages 56-61
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-04-23]

Response to Board questioning

*Adil said he never traveled anywhere in Afghanistan, beyond the Uyghur camp.
*He was taken to the camp by A Uyghur he met in Jalalabad named Abdul Wahab. He had been given his name by a Uyghur in Pakistan.
*Adil said he was shown how to use the camp's rifle, a couple of times, but didn't see it afterwards, and the Uyghurs did not take it with them as they fled the American bombing.

Letter to the Secretary of State

Adil wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on January 19 2006. [http://www.bradenton.com/multimedia/miami/news/0505gitmoletterp6.pdf Letter to Condoleezza Rice] , January 19 2006] In it he wrote that his Tribunal determined he was innocent on May 9 2005. He said he was appealing directly to Rice because he had tried all other options.

Asylum in Albania

On May 5 2006 the Department of Defense announced that they had transferred five Uyghurs who had been determined not to have been enemy combatants, to Albania. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/05/AR2006050501431.html Albania accepts Chinese Guantanamo detainees] , "Washington Post", May 5 2006] Seventeen other Uyghurs continue to be held at Guantanamo, because their CSRTs determined they were enemy combatants.

The McClatchy interview

On June 15 2008 the McClatchy News Service published articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives. McClatchy reporters interviewed Ahmed Adil. cite news
url=http://services.mcclatchyinteractive.com/detainees?page=2
title=Guantanamo Inmate Database: Page 2
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%3D2&date=2008-06-18 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/21
title=Guantanamo Inmate Database: Ahmed Adil
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%2Fdetainees.mcclatchydc.com%2Fdetainees%2F21&date=2008-08-01 mirror] ] During his interview Ahmed Adil described life in the Uyghur construction camp:

Ahmed Adil told his interviewers that he spent long periods in solitary confinement, in a cell that was only 3 x 6 feet, and that he was always chained to the floor during his interrogations.

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