Salim Mahmoud Adem Mohammed Bani Amir

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Salim Mahmoud Adem Mohammed Bani Amir

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date_of_birth = Birth year and age|1958
place_of_birth = Kasalu, Sudan
date_of_arrest = May 27, 2002
date_of_death =
place_of_death =
detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 710
group =
alias = Benny Ah-Amir
charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
penalty =
status = Repatriated, December 2007
occupation = School Principal.
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parents =
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Salim Mahmoud Adem Mohammed Bani Amir is a citizen of Sudan, 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 710.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate he was born in 1958, in Kasula, Sudan.

Identity

Captive 710 was identified inconsistently on official Department of Defense documents:
*Captive 710 was identified as Salim Mahmoud Adem Mohammed Bani Amir on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 21 October 2004, on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for Salim Mahmoud Adem Mohammed Bani Amir's Administrative Review Board, on 16 September 2005, and on seven official lists of captives' names.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000595-000693.pdf#36
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Bani Amir, Salim Mahmoud Adem Mohammed
date=16 September 2005
pages=page 36-38
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-08] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000500-000599.pdf#78
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Bani Amir, Salim Mahmoud Adem Mohammed
date=21 October 2004
pages=page 78
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-08] 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] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_publicly_filed_CSRT_records.pdf
title=Index for CSRT Records Publicly Files in Guantanamo Detainee Cases
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=August 8 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29] 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_transfer_release_decision_ARB_Round_1.pdf
title=Index to Transfer and Release Decision for Guantanamo Detainees
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=July 17 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29]
*Captive 710 was identified as Benny Ah-Amir on the Legal Advisor's declaration that prefaced documents released in response to the habeas corpus petitions submitted on his behalf.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/publicly_filed_CSRT_records_3679-3784.pdf
title=Benny Ah-Amir v. George Walker Bush, et al.
author=Joseph S Imburgia
date=6 July 2005
pages=pages 31-54
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-08]
*Captive 710 was identified as Salim Muhood Adem on a list of captives who had their habeas documents seized.cite web
url=http://www.pegc.us/archive/OK_v_Bush/govt_resp_to_GK_20060815.pdf
title=Respondents' response to Court's August 7, 2006 order
date=August 15 2006
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-06-23 [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pegc.us%2Farchive%2FOK_v_Bush%2Fgovt_resp_to_GK_20060815.pdf&date=2008-08-18 mirror] ]

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 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.

ummary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Salim Mahmoud Adem Mohammed Bani Amir's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 21 October 2004.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000500-000599.pdf#78
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Bani Amir, Salim Mahmoud Adem Mohammed
date=21 October 2004
pages=page 78
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-08] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

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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_000484-000582.pdf#35
title=Administrative Review Board assessment and recommendation ICO ISN 710
date=18 December 2005
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-01
pages=pages 35-36] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Decision_memos_000484-000582.pdf#37
title=Classified Record of Proceedings and basis of Administrative Review Board recommendation for ISN 710
date=23 October 2005
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-01
pages=pages 37-44] The Board's recommendation was unanimousThe Board's recommendation was redacted.England authorized his transfer on 18 December 2005.

Release

He and fellow Sudanese Adel Hasan Hamad were repatriated on December 13 2007.cite news
url=http://www.infocusnews.net/content/view/20822/496/
title=Two men speak of their lost years at Gitmo
publisher=Southern California InFocus
author=Ismail Kamal Kushkush
date=March 2008
accessdate=2008-03-26
quote=] "InFocus", a Muslim newspaper in California, extensively quoted from him, after his release::

Lawsuit

On May 14 2008 the "Daily Times of Pakistan reported that "Salim Mahmud Adam" and "Adel Hasan Hamad" had announced plans to sue the USA over their detention.cite news
url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C05%5C14%5Cstory_14-5-2008_pg7_31
title=Two ex-Guantanamo detainees to sue US
publisher=Daily Times (Pakistan)
author=Akhtar Amin
date=Wednesday, May 14, 2008
accessdate=2008-05-13
quote=In 2004, Hamad and Adam said they appeared before a Combatant Status Review Tribunal that cleared them of charges of being enemy combatants. However, it was not until September 2007 that a military court finally cleared them of charges of posing a threat to the United States.] The article reports that he told the Daily Times that his 2004 Combatant Status Review Tribunal had cleared him of the allegation that he was an "enemy combatant".

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