Fahd Umr Abd Al Majid Al Sharif

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Fahd Umr Abd Al Majid Al Sharif

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date_of_birth = Birth date|1976|03|18
place_of_birth = Mecca, Saudi Arabia
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detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 215
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alias = Fahd Al Sharif,
charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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Fahd Umr Abd Al Majid Al Sharif is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, 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)] , "United States Department of Defense", May 15 2006] Al Sharif's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 215.The Department of Defense reports that Al Sharif was born on March 18 1976, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

Identity

Captive 215 was identified inconsistently on official Department of Defense documents:
*Captive 215 was identified as Fahd Al Sharif on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 27 September 2004.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000201-000299.pdf#30
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Al Sharif, Fahd
date=27 September 2004
pages=pages 30-31
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-14]
*Captive 215 was identified as Fahd Umr Abd Al Majid Al Sharif on the Summary of Evidence memos prepared for his first and second annual Administrative Review Board, on 31 October 2005 and 3 October 2006, and on seven official lists of captives' names published by the Department of Defense.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000197-000294.pdf#56
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Sharif, Fahd Umr Abd Al Majid
date=31 October 2005
pages=pages 56-59
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-14] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_299-398.pdf#30
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Sharif, Fahd Umr Abd Al Majid
date=3 October 2006
pages=pages 30-32
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-14] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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]

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 Fahd Al Sharif's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 27 September 2004.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000201-000299.pdf#30
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Al Sharif, Fahd
date=27 September 2004
pages=pages 30-31
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-14] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

:"'a The detainee is a member of the Taliban and is associated with al Qaida::#The detainee traveled from Saudi Arabia to Afghanistan in early 2001.:#The detainee voluntarily joined the Taliban to participate in Jihad.:#The detainee received training in Afghanistan on the operation of the AK-47 rifle, PK machine gun, and rocket propelled grenade launcher.:#The detainee was provided with an AK-47 and 7.62 mm PK.:#The detainee agreed to fight with the Taliban.:#The detainee met with and received money from Usama Bin Laden.:#The detainee's name was on a list of probable Al-Qaeda operatives.

:"'b. The detainee participated in military operations against the United States and its coalition partners.:#The detainee fought on the front lines for approximately nine months and fired his weapon at coalition forces.:#The detainee manned anti-aircraft weaponry during combat.:#The detainee was present at Tora Bora during the during the U.S. air campaign.

Transcript

Al Sharif chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.cite web
url=http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_42_2728-2810.pdf#13
title=Summarized Statement
date=date redacted
pages=pages 13-24
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-14] On March 3 2006, in response to a court order, the Department of Defense published a twelve page summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

Testimony

Administrative Review Board hearings

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. 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 Fahd Umr Abd Al Majid Al SharifAdministrative Review Board, on
31 October 2005.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000197-000294.pdf#56
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Sharif, Fahd Umr Abd Al Majid
date=31 October 2005
pages=pages 56-59
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-14] The four page memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

Transcript

Captive 215 chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Transcript_Set_5_20000-20254.pdf#198
title=Summary of Administrative Review Board Proceedings for ISN 215
date=30 November 2005
author=OARDEC
pages=pages 198-228
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-14] In the Spring of 2006 the the Department of Defense published a nineteen page summarized transcript from captive 215's first annual Board hearing. It also published an eight page memo, that contained point by point responses captive 215 prepared prior to his hearing.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Transcript_Set_17_22822-23051.pdf#34
title=Detainee Written Responses to the Unclassified Summary of Evidence for the Administrative Review Board, in the case of Al Sharif, Fahd Umr Abd Al Majid
date=November 2005
author=OARDEC
pages=pages 34-45
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-14]

Captive 215 acknowledged traveling to Afghanistan for Jihad. He acknowledged receiving military training in Afghanistan, and subsequently manning the Taliban's front line near the Gharband mountains. He acknowledged being present in Tora Bora during the American aerial bombardment.

Captive 215 clarified that his training at the Khalden training camp was a four month infantry course, not a six month course. He acknowledged telling his interrogators that Khalden offered more advanced training courses, but he clarified he had not been enrolled in those courses. He acknowledged briefly attending an infantry training session at the al Farouq training camp.

Captive 215 acknowledged owning a digital watch. He couldn't remember the model number, and had no idea whether it was a Casio F91W. He had no knowledge as two whether bomb-makers liked to build time-bombs around Casio F91W watchers, and asserted that he only used his watch to tell the time of day.

Captive 215 disputed meeting Osama bin Laden, or accepting money from him. He disputed ever having any contactwith al Qaida. He disputed being a member of the Taliban. He was a volunteer who served on their front lines, nota member.

Captive 215 acknowledged that he had been ready to be a martyr. He tried to explain a distinction between beingmartyred through normal combat, and purposely putting one's self in jeopardy in order to seek martyrdom. He regarded the former as legitimate and the latter as illegitimate.

Captive 215 said that during the time he manned the Gharband front line, prior to 9-11, he didn't remember ever firing his weapon. He disputed ever being trained on, or firing anti-aircraft weapons. He disputed ever firing any rifles at US aircraft during the American aerial bombardment of Afghanistan.

econd annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Fahd Umr Abd Al Majid Al Sharif's second annual Administrative Review Board, on 3 October 2006.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_299-398.pdf#30
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Sharif, Fahd Umr Abd Al Majid
date=3 October 2006
pages=pages 30-32
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-14] The three page memo listed twenty primary factors favoring continued detention and one factor favoring release or transfer.

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