Umar Abdullah Al Kunduzi

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Umar Abdullah Al Kunduzi

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Umar Abdullah Al Kunduzi 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 222.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate that Al Kunduzi was born in 1979, in Kunduz, 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 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 Umar Abdullah Al Kunduzi'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal, on
8 August 2004.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000201-000299.pdf#40
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Al Kunduzi, Umar Abdullah
date=8 August 2004
pages=page 40
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-05-05] The memo listed the following allegations against him: :

Transcript

Al Kunduzi chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing. cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Transcript_Set_3_769-943_FINAL.pdf#55
title=Summary of Administrative Review Board Proceedings of ISN
date=date redacted
author=OARDEC
pages="'pages 55-59
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-05-05] In the Spring of 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a five page summarized transcript from his Administrative Review Board.cite news
url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/US-releases-Guantanamo-files/2006/04/04/1143916500334.html
title=US releases Guantanamo files
publisher=The Age
date=April 4, 2006
accessdate=2008-03-15
quote=]

Assisting Military Officer's notes

Al Kunduzi's Assisting Military Officer read notes he made during his interviews with Al Kunduzi. According ot his notes:
*Al Kunduzi denied carrying a Rocket Propelled Grenade launcher.
*Al Kunduzi denied preparing mortars.
*Al Kunduzi denied being lead out of the cave by the leader of the Khalden Training Camp.
*Al Kunduzi denied carrying a weapon and additional magazines when he fled Tora Bora.
*Al Kunduzi denied that he was captured. He voluntarily surrendered.
*Al Kunduzi pointed out that he was legally entitled to travel to Pakistan, that he had legitimate travel documents that entitled him to return to Pakistan.
*Al Kunduzi denied ever expressing a desire to kill Guantanamo guards.
*Al Kunduzi denied striking a guard while he was being unshackled. Al Kunduzi said the incident occurred a year and a half earlier, that he was the one who was struck, and that he had merely defended himself. He said that his finger was fractured during the incident.
*Al Kunduzi stated that: "...if he were released he would never retaliate against Americans or anyone else even if they stuck him first."

Al Kunduzi's opening statement

Al Kunduzi made the following statement, under oath: :

The following primary factors favor release or transfer:

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Current location

As of 2007, Umar Abdullah Al Kunduzi has been released from Guantanamo Baycite news
url=http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=22861
title=The Stories of the Afghans Just Released from Guantánamo: Intelligence Failures, Battlefield Myths and Unaccountable Prisons in Afghanistan (Part One)
publisher=Andy Worthington
accessdate=2008-09-17
quote=]

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