- Khan Zaman
Khan Zaman is a citizen of
Afghanistan , held inextrajudicial detention in theUnited States Guantanamo Bay detainment camp s, inCuba . [http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense ",May 15 2006 ] His detainee ID number is 460.Americanintelligence analysts estimate that he was born in 1962, in Zamikhel, Afghanistan.Khan, his son
Gul Zaman , his brotherAbib Sarajuddin ,and his neighborMohammad Gul , were all captured on the night ofJanuary 21 2002 , early during the administration ofHamid Karzai . [http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0202-01.htm Villagers Add to Reports of Raids Gone Astray] , "New York Times ",February 2 2002 ] Gul Zaman, and Mohammad Gul were released. Abib Sarajuddin and Khan Zaman were confirmed to have been correctly classified as "enemy combatant s.witness
Zaman testified on behalf of a neighbor, Mohammad Gul.
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 fromthe war on terror . This policy was challenged before the Judicial branch. Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct acompetent tribunal s to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections ofprisoner of war status.Subsequently the Department of Defense instituted the
Combatant Status Review Tribunal s. 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 anenemy combatant .
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