Muhamad Naji Subhi Al Juhani

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subject_name = Muhamad Naji Subhi Al Juhani

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date_of_birth = Birth date|1967|10|05
place_of_birth = Jeddah Saudi Arabia
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detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 62
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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Muhamad Naji Subhi Al Juhani is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, 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 detainee ID number is 062.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts report he was born on October 5 1967, in Jeddah Saudi Arabia.

JTF-GTMO analysts report captive 62 was captured with a group of men who were identified as Osama bin Laden bodyguards.

Although all Guantanamo captives who haven't been charged, or cleared for release, are supposed to have their continued detention reviewed, there is no record that a hearing convened to review captive 62's status in 2005.

The record shows that the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for the 2006 annual Administrative Review Board hearing, to determine whether the USA should continue to be held in Guantanamo was drafted a month after he was repatriated to Saudi Arabia.

Identity

Captive 62 was identified inconsistently on official Department of Defense documents:
*Captive 62 was identified as Muhamad Naji Subhi Al Juhani on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 22 September 2004.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000001-000100.pdf#76
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Al Juhani, Muhamad Naji Subhi
date=22 September 2004
pages=page 76
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-01-19]
*Captive 62 was identified as Muhammed Al Juhani on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his second annual Administrative Review Board, on 17 August 2006.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_100-199.pdf#25
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Juhani, Muhammed
date=17 August 2006
pages=pages 25-26
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-01-19]

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.Fact|date=December 2007 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 Muhamad Naji Subhi Al Juhani'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal, on 22 September 2004.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000001-000100.pdf#76
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Al Juhani, Muhamad Naji Subhi
date=22 September 2004
pages=page 76
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-01-19] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

:"'a. The detainee is a member of Taliban and al Qaida::#Detainee was influenced by Fatwas issued to travel to Afghanistan and take up the Jihad.:#Detainee traveled in June of 2000 from Saudi Arabia to Kabul, Afghanistan.:#Detainee was a member of Al Irata, Mujahadin fighters.:#Detainee was a bodyguard for Usama bin Laden.:#Detainee was taking sic into custody in December 2001 while trying to cross into Pakistan from Afghanistan.

:"'b. The detainee participated in military operations against the coalition.:#Detainee was a fighter in Tora Bora.:#Detainee may have been a fighter on the frontlines in Kabul.

Transcript

Al Juhani chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_34_2426-2457.pdf#29 Summarized transcripts (.pdf)] , from Muhamad Naji Subhi Al Juhani's "Combatant Status Review Tribunal" - pages 29-30]

Testimony

Al Juhani denied all the allegations against him. During most Tribunals the allegations against the detainee are read aloud, and included in the transcript. The allegations against Al Juhani were notincluded in the transcript.

Al Juhani did not make an opening statement. The Tribunal's President confirmed that Al Juhani opted not tomake an opening statement. The transcript records:

Repatriation

A Saudi captive named Muhammad al Jihani was one of sixteen captives repatriated on July 16 2006.cite news
url=http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=98598&d=17&m=7&y=2007&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom
title=More Gitmo Detainees Come Home
author=Raid Qusti
publisher=Arab News
date=July 17 2007
accessdate=2007-07-17] cite news
url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-worthington/who-are-the-16-saudis-rel_b_56810.html
author=Andy Worthington
publisher=Huffington Post
date=July 18 2007
title=Who are the 16 Saudis Released From Guantánamo?]

Andy Worthington, the author of "", described him as a Koran teacher. He offered a quote from Al Juhani's Combatant Status Review Tribuanl transcript, characterizing his replies to his questioning as "grumpy"::

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