Yusef Abbas

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Yusef Abbas

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date_of_birth = Birth year and age|1980
place_of_birth = Aksu, China
date_of_death =
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detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 275
group =
alias = Abd Al Sabr Abd Al Hamid Uthman
charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
penalty =
status = there is no record that he has been cleared for release, however, there is also no record any of the annual review hearings the DoD was obliged to hold have been convened.
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Yusef Abbas is a citizen of China 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 275.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate that Abbas was born in 1980, in Aksu, China.

Abbas is one of approximately two dozen detainees from the Uighur ethnic group. [http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FK04Ad02.html China's Uighurs trapped at Guantanamo] , "Asia Times", November 4 2004]

Identity

*Captive 275 was identified as Yusef Abbas in the , drafted on October 30 2004, on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 3 November 2004, and on four official lists of captives' names.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] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/publicly_filed_CSRT_records_1731-1808.pdf#28
title=Information paper: Uighur Detainee Population at JTF-GTMO
date=30 October 2004
pages=pages 28-34
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-12-19] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000300-000399.pdf#16
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Abbas, Yusef
date=3 November 2004
pages=page 16
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-28] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf
title=List of detainee who went through complete CSRT process
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=April 20 2006
accessdate=2007-09-29] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_CSRT_unclassified_summaries.pdf
title=Index for Combatant Status Review Board unclassified summaries of evidence
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=July 17 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_CSRT_detainees_testimony.pdf
title=Index for testimony
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=September 4 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29]
*Captive 275 was identified as Abd Al Sabr Abd Al Hamid Uthman in the , drafted on October 30 2004.
*Captive 275 was identified as Adusupur on the detainee election form prepared when Abdal Razak Qadir requested his testimony on 16 October 2004.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/publicly_filed_CSRT_records_1344-1475.pdf#63
title=Detainee election form (ISN 219)
date=16 October 2004
pages=page 89
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-28]
*Captive 275 was identified as Abdu Supur when he testified on behalf of Abdal Razak Qadir on 23 October 2004.cite web
url=http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_27_1901-1948.pdf#20
title=Summarized Sworn Detainee Statement (ISN 219)
pages=pages 20-35
publisher=United States Department of Defense
author=OARDEC
date=23 October 2004
accessdate=2007-12-18]

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The document listed an alias for Yusuf Abbas -- "Abd Al Sabr Abd Al Hamid Uthman".

CSRT-Yescite web
url= [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_mar05.pdf#41
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- name redacted (published March 2005)
date=3 November 2004
pages=page 41
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-28] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000300-000399.pdf#16
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Abbas, Yusef (published September 2007)
date=3 November 2004
pages=page 16
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-28]

:"'a. The detainee is a part of a force associated with al Qaida or the Taliban::#The detainee traveled from China to Afghanistan via Kyrgystan sic and Pakistan in the summer of 2001.:#From approximately 01 August through 01 October 2001, the detainee attended the Uigher sic in the Tora Bora mountains where he received instruction in the Kalashnikov sic rifle.:#The detainee retreated from Tora Bora to Pakistan in late 2001, where he was arrested by Pakistani authorities.

:"'b. The detainee participated in military operations against the United States and it coalition partners.:#The detainee participated in the battle of Tora Bora.:#The detainee was wounded as a result of coalition bombing, and received medical treatment from the Taliban.:#The detainee from Tora Bora to Pakistan in late 2001, where he was arrested by Pakistani authorities.

On March 3 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published an eight page summarized transcripts 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

*Yusuf Abbas denied association with or membership in the Taliban.
*Yusuf Abbas pointed out that it was not illegal to travel from China to Afghanistan.
*Yusuf Abbas responded to the allegations about Tora Bora by denying knowing where Tora Bora was.
*Yusuf Abbas confirmed he received injuries during the US bombing, but denied receiving medical treatment from the Taliban. He said he received his medical treatment in an Afghan hospital.

Abbas gave a long explanation why he traveled to Afghanistan.
*Muslims suffer religious oppression in China.
*The Voice of America convinced him to leave.
*He thought his best destination would be to immigrate to the USA.
*It was difficult to get his travel documents, but they were legal.
*Abbas described arriving in Pakistan, without any realistic idea of how close to America he could get with his $600 savings.
*An Uighur he met in Pakistan, who had let him stay with him for a few days, recommended he go stay at a Uighur camp in Afghanistan, where he could live for free.
*Almost all the work he and his fellow Uighurs did at the camp was construction work.
*One of his fellow Uighurs, Abdul Maxam, provided him with a limited introduction as to how to fire the camp's only AK-47.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_20_1606-1644.pdf#18
title=Summarized Statement
date=date redacted
pages=pages 18-25
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-28]

Testimony on behalf of Abdul Razak

Yusuf Abbas testified on behalf of Abdul Razak.cite news
url=http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_27_1901-1948.pdf#20
title=Summarized Sworn Detainee Statement (ISN 219)
pages=pages 29-32
publisher=United States Department of Defense
author=OARDEC
date=23 October 2004
accessdate=2007-12-18] Abdul Razak asserted, and Yusuf Abbas confirmed, that they met in a hospital, in Kabul, when he was ill. The hospital authorities introduced them so Abdul Razak could cater his food. According to the testimony at this Tribunal Yusuf Abbas was in hospital for one month prior to going to the Afghan camp, and that Abdul Razak had catered his food that entire time.

On Abdul Razak's detainee election form Yusuf Abbas's name was recorded as "Adusupur".cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/publicly_filed_CSRT_records_1344-1475.pdf#63
title=Detainee election form (ISN 219)
date=16 October 2004
pages=page 89
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-12-18] In his testimony he referred to Yusuf Abbas as "Abdu Supur".

Yusuf Abbas confirmed that he had traveled to the camp with Abdul Razak, that they had fled the American aerial bombardment of Afghanistan with the other Uyghurs, through the mountains, into Pakistan, where they were turned over the Pakistani authorities.

Both men testified that they hadn't seen the other man train on or carry any weapons.

Abdul Razak testified that the camp was near a village he called Urhurl.

Current status

Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings.cite news
url=http://www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil/storyarchive/2007/07octstories/102907-2-oardec.html
title=OARDEC provides recommendations to Deputy Secretary of Defense
publisher=JTF Guantanamo Public Affairs
author=Army Sgt. Sarah Stannard
date=October 29 2007
accessdate=2008-03-26
quote=] The Administrative Review Boards weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".

They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat -- or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free.

In September 2007 the Department of Defense published all the Summary of Evidence memos prepared for the Administrative Review Boards convened in 2005 or 2006.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_1_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf
title=Index to Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round One
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=August 9 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_2_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf
title=Index of Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round Two
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=July 17 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29] There is no record that any Administrative Review Board hearings convened in 2005 or 2006 to review his detention.

Five Uyghurs, whose CSR Tribunals determined they had not been enemy combatants were transferred to detention in an Albanian refugee camp in 2006. A man who was born to Uyghur parents, in Saudi Arabia, and thus was considered a Uyghur, was nevertheless returned to Saudi Arabia. All the other Uyghurs remain in Guantanamo.

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