Abdul Helil Mamut

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Abdul Helil Mamut

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date_of_birth = Birth year and age|1977
place_of_birth = Kashkar, China
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detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 278
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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status = Still in Guantanamo, but OARDEC is no longer conducting annual reviews of his status
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Abdul Helil Mamut is a citizen of China, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, 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 detainee ID number is 278. The Department of Defense estimates that Mamut was born in Kashkar, China, in 1977

Mamut 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]

CSRT-Yescite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000300-000399.pdf#20
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Mamut, Abdul Helil
date=16 September 2004
page=page 20
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-04-15] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

:"'a. The detainee is a Uighur fighter::#The detainee traveled to Afghanistan via Pakistan to receive training at a Uighur training camp in Tora Bora.:#The detainee arrived at the Uighur Tora Bora training camp on 17 June 2001.:#The detainee received training on the AK-47 while at the Uighur Tora Bora training camp.:#The detainee was at the Uighur Tora Bora training camp when it was bombed by US/Coalition forces in October.:#The detainee evaded in the Tora Bora mountains for two and half months before being captured by Pakistani Security Forces along with a group of other Uighur fighters and Arabs.

Transcript

Mamut chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.cite web
url=http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_46_3096-3129.pdf#7
title=Summarized Statement
date=date redacted
pages=pages 7-14
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-04-15] On March 3 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a 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

Mamut testified that he originally traveled to Pakistan to study. He spent three years at a technical college in Lahore. But he ended up dropping out, because his academic preparation in China was insufficient. It was only after he was flunking out at the technical college that he decided to get any training he could. He had heard that some Uighurs were getting some training in Afghanistan, and he decided to join them.

He said there were no Arabs or Afghans in the camp. That he and his fellow Uighurs did get some minimal training on the AK-47, individually, one at a time, but most of their time was spent in construction work.

He acknowledged that he and his fellow Uighurs had fled when the camp when the USA bombed it.He denied that they had fled armed, or had joined any streams of armed refugees.

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The information paper also identified him as "Abd Al Nasir".

ummary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Abdul Helil Mamut'sAdministrative Review Board, on
31 August 2005.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000295-000393.pdf#54
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Mamut, Abdul Helil
date=31 August 2005
pages=pages 54-56
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-04-15] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

The following primary factors favor continued detention:

:"'a. Commitment::In 1998, the detainee traveled to Lahore, Pakistan, to study. After his third year, the detainee realized that schooling was not going to help him help his people fight the oppression back in China. He met with a Uighur fighter to talk about training in Afghanistan. In June 2001, he left Pakistan to attend weapons training in Afghanistan.

:"'b. Training:#The detainee traveled to Jalalabad, Afghanistan, to Uighur house, and then to a training camp in the Tora Bora mountains. The detainee received training on the Kalishnakov sic.:#The detainee was at the camp until it was bombed in October 2001.

:"'c. Connections/Associations:#The East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) operated a training camp in Tora Bora, Afghanistan, and a guesthouse in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.:#The Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), a small Islamic extremist group based in China's western Xinjiang Province, is one of the most militant of the ethnic Uighur separatist groups pursuing an independent Eastern Turkistan, which would include Turkey, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Xinjiang. ETIM and other overlapping militant Uighur groups are linked to the international mujahidin movement begeinning with the participation of ethnic Uighur mujahidin in the Soviet and Afghan war and to a limited degree al Qaida:#The ETIM also garnered support from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU).:#The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) is a coalition of Islamic militants from Uzbekistan and other Central Asian states opposed to Uzbekistani President Islom Karimov's secular regime. Although the IMU's primary goal remains to overthrow Karimov and establish an Islamic state in Uzbekistan, IMU political and ideological leader Tohir Yoldashev is working to rebuild the organization and appears to have widened the IMU's target to include all those he perceives as fighting Islam. The IMU generally has been unable to operate in Uzbekistan and thus has been more active in Kyrgystan sic and Tajikistan.

:"'d. Detainee Actions and Statements:#When the camp was bombed, everyone fled to the mountains to take refuge. They saw a group of Arabs walking by and they followed the Arabs who were escaping to Pakistan.:#The detainee and the other Uighurs walked for two days to a village in Pakistan where they were captured by Pakistani police.

The following primary factors favor release or transfer:

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Board recommendations

In early September 2007 the Department of Defense released two heavily redacted memos, from his Board, to Gordon England, the Designated Civilian Official.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Decision_memos_000196-000275.pdf#66
title=Administrative Review Board assessment and recommendation ICO ISN 278
date=18 November 2005
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-04-23
page=page 66] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Decision_memos_000196-000275.pdf#67
title=Classified Record of Proceedings and basis of Administrative Review Board recommendation for ISN 278
date=9 September 2005
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-04-23
pages=pages 67-72] The Board's recommendation was unanimousThe Board's recommendation was redacted.England authorized his transfer on 18 November 2005.

His Board noted he: "...continues to be a threat to the United States and its allies."

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