Khalid Saud Abd Al Rahman Al Bawardi

Khalid Saud Abd Al Rahman Al Bawardi is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", April 20 2006] Al Bawardi's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 068.American intelligence analysts estimate that Al Bawardi was born in 1977, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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.

Al Bawardi chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_22_1689-1741.pdf#15 Summarized transcripts (.pdf)] , from Khalid Saud Abd Al Rahman Al Bawardi's "Combatant Status Review Tribunal" - pages 15-33]

Allegations

The allegations Al Bawardi faced during his Tribunal were: [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_22_1689-1741.pdf#15 Summarized transcripts (.pdf)] , from Khalid Saud Abd Al Rahman Al Bawardi's "Combatant Status Review Tribunal" - pages 15-33] :a. ""' -- The general summary of the allegations that establish an association with terrorism were missing from the transcript. --:#The detainee is associated with the Jama'at al Tabligh sic.:#Jama'at al Tabligh sic, a Pakistan based Islamic missionary organization is being used as a cover to mask travel and activities of terrorists, including members of Al Qaeda.:#The detainee's name appeared on a list of Al Qaeda mujahedin seized from an Al Qaeda safehouse in Pakistan.:#The detainee was captured with a group of Al Qaeda members.

Testimony

Repatriation

A captive named "Khalid al-Baward"was released with thirteen other men on November 12 2007.cite news
url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-worthington/innocents-and-foot-soldie_b_72286.html
title=Innocents and Foot Soldiers: The Stories of the 14 Saudis Just Released From Guantánamo
publisher=Huffington Post
author=Andy Worthington
date=November 12 2007
accessdate=2007-11-19] Historian Andy Worthington wrote he:

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