Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghiyth Sulayman

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghiyth Sulayman

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date_of_birth = Birth year and age|1979
place_of_birth = Ta'iz, Yemen
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citizenship = Yemen
detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 223
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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status = enemy combatant
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Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghiyth Sulayman is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba. [http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] His Guantanamo detainee ID number is 223.American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1979, in Ta'iz, Yemen.

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 date=December 2007

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 a 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 Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghiyth Sulayman'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal, on 12 October 2004.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000201-000299.pdf#41
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Sulayman, Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghiyth
date=12 October 2004
pages=pages 41-42
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-05-05] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

:"'a The detainee is a member of the Taliban.:#The detainee traveled from Yemen to Afghanistan in March 2001.:#The detainee went to Afghanistan to join the Taliban.:#The detainee stayed at a Taliban house while in Quetta, Pakistan.:#The detainee was reportedly trained on the PK machine gun and 82mm mortar.:#The detainee was captured with a model F91W Casio watch.:#The Casio watch, model F-91W has been used in bombings that have been linked to Al Qaeda and radical Islamic terrorist improvised explosive devices sic.

:"'b The detainee participated in military operations against the United States and its coalition partners.:#The detainee was on the front lines fighting in Afghanistan during the bombing campaign.:#The detainee was captured in Pakistan.

Transcript

Sulayman chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_18_1463-1560.pdf#23
title=Summarized Statement
date=date redacted
pages=pages 23-31
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-05-05] On March 3 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a nine page summarized transcript 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=]

Administrative Review Board hearing

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.

First annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghiyth Sulayman'sfirst annualAdministrative Review Board, on 7 April 2005.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_001046-001160.pdf#72
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Sulayman, Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghiyth
date=7 April 2005
pages=pages 72-74
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-05-05] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

The following primary factors favor continued detention:

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The following primary factors favor release or transfer:

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