Feda Ahmed

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Feda Ahmed

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date_of_birth = Birth date|1977|02|05
place_of_birth = February 5 1977, in Kandahar, Afghanistan
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detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 1013
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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status = Determined not to have been an enemy combatant after all
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Feda Ahmed is a citizen of Afghanistan, 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 1013.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts reported that Feda Ahmed was born in February 5 1977, in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

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 Feda Ahmed'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal, on 18 October 2004.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000700-000783.pdf#22
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Ahmed, Feda
date=18 October 2004
author=OARDEC
pages=page 22
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-11-13] The memo listed the following allegations against him::""'The detainee is associated with al Qaida::#"The detainee attempted to be smuggled into the United States.:#"The detainee traveled with forged travel documents, including a passport and other travel documents.:#"The detainee left Pakistan ten months previous to his detention by paying a smuggler in Pakistan twenty-five thousand dollars (US) to be smuggled into the U.S.:#"The vessel in which the Detainee traveled is believed to be a special interest vessel, which was the focus of Operation Southern Watch.:#"The smuggler responsible for the above-mentioned vessel has close business ties with an individual known to help coordinate smuggling operations for members of Hizballah and al-Gama'at al-Islamiyya sic.:#"Hizballah and al-Gama'at al-Islamiyya sic are known terrorist groups.

Tribunal

Ahmed chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_19_1561-1605.pdf#13 Summarized transcripts (.pdf)] , from Feda Ahmed's "Combatant Status Review Tribunal" - pages 13-14]

Testimony

*Ahmed acknowledged trying to smuggle himself into the United States.
*Ahmed acknowledged traveling with forged documents. He traveled from Pakistan to Guatemala by plane, but it was eight months prior to his detention, not ten months. And from Guatemala he traveled overland, by foot or vehicle. He did not travel in any water borne vessels, except local ferries when crossing rivers or streams.
*His smuggler was going to be paid $18,000, not $25,000, by his father, upon his arrival in the USA.

Ahmed asserted he knew nothing of any ties between his smuggler and terrorist groups.

Determined not to have been an Enemy Combatant

The Washington Post reports that Ahmed was one of 38 detainees who was determined not to have been an enemy combatant during his Combatant Status Review Tribunal. [http://projects.washingtonpost.com/guantanamo/nlec/ Guantanamo Bay Detainees Classifed as "No Longer Enemy Combatants"] , "Washington Post"] They report that Ahmed has been released.The Department of Defense refers to these men as No Longer Enemy Combatants.

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