Azimullah

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Azimullah

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place_of_birth = North Waziristan, Pakistan
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citizenship = | detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 1050
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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Azimullah 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
format=PDF] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 1050.American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1982, in North Waziristan, Pakistan.

Identity

Azimullah's name was not spelled consistently by the US Department of Defense:
*His name was spelled as LNU, Azimullah on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, and on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his first annual Administrative Review Board hearings.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000700-000783.pdf#40
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- LNU, Azimullah
date=1 November 2004
pages=pages 40-41
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-05-08] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_001046-001160.pdf#64
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of
date=26 April 2005
pages=pages 64-65
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-05-08]
*His name was spelled as Azimullah (Last Name Unknown) on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his second annual Administrative Review Board hearings.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_900-1009.pdf#46
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Azimullah (Last Name Unknown)
date=5 March 2006
pages=page 46-47
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-05-05]
*His name was spelled as Azimullah on seven official list of captives' names the DoD published.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
format=PDF] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf
title=List of detainee who went through complete CSRT process
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=April 20 2006
accessdate=2007-09-29
format=PDF] 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
format=PDF] 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
format=PDF] 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
format=PDF] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_1_transcripts_documents.pdf
title=Index of Transcripts and Certain Documents from ARB Round One
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=August 9 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29
format=PDF] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_2_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf
title=Index of Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round Two
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=July 17 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29
format=PDF]

ummary

Azimullah was one of more than half a dozen captives at Guantanamo who were transferred to Guantanamo because they were under suspicion for participating in rocket attacks on Firebase Salerno.

Azimullah, and several companions were students at a Madrassa in Khowst. [http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_2_0098-0204.pdf#93 Summarized transcripts (.pdf)] , from Mahbub Rahman's"Combatant Status Review Tribunal" - pages 93-108] One of his fellow students, Mahbub Rahman, said he had been assaulted by the drug addict who killed his older brother several years before. He said he had shot his assailant in the leg, with his assailant's gun, and then run away. He had sought help from his school chums, Azimullah, while fleeing the scene in panic. They didn't present any resistance to the local militia, when they were captured.

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 Azimullah'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal, on 1 November 2004.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000700-000783.pdf#40
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- LNU, Azimullah
date=1 November 2004
pages=pages 40-41
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-05-08] The memo listed the following allegations against him: :

The following primary factors favor release or transfer:

:

Release

Azimullah was released in September 2007.cite news
url=http://www.counterpunch.org/worthington10052007.html
title=Eight More Wrongly Imprisoned Men are Quietly Released: The Anonymous Victims of Guantánamo
author=Andy Worthington
publisher=Counterpunch
date=October 5 2007
accessdate=2007-10-06]

As of March 18 2008 the "Washington Post" lists Azimullah as still in detention in Guantanamo.cite news
url=http://projects.washingtonpost.com/guantanamo/#afghanistan
title=Names of the Detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
publisher=Washington Post
accessdate=2008-03-18
quote=]

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