Adil al-Nusayri

Adil Uqla Hassan Al Nusayri is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. [http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] Al Nusayri's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 308.American intelligence analysts estimate Al Nusayri was born in Sakakah, 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 2007
accessdate=2007-09-22] ]

Initially the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush 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 of the U.S. government. 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 Nusayri chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal. [http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_33_2302-2425_Revised.pdf#112 Summarized transcripts (.pdf)] , from Adil Uqla Hassan Al Nusayri's "Combatant Status Review Tribunal" - pages 112-124]

allegations

The allegations Al Nusayri faced during his Tribunal were::""'a. Associations:#"The detainee, a Saudi Arabian citizen, traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan, in July 2001 to fight the jihad.:#"The detainee admitted traveling to Afghanistan to join the Taliban. :#"The detainee stayed in a Taliban bean farm in Kabul.

testimony in response to the allegations

Al Nusayri acknowledged traveling to Afghanistan. But he said he traveled there for sightseeing, not for jihad.He had traveled to Pakistan, the neighboring country, for medical treatment.

Al Nusayri said the Taliban suspected he was a spy, because he was a police officer back in Saudi Arabia, and put him in prison.

Al Nusayri admitted to being on the bean farm. The Taliban had taken him there, involuntarily, from prison,

testimony in response to Tribunal officer's questions

* Al Nusayri's said his medical problems arose from a car accident he had been in. He said he had 27 fractures in his head, and his vision was affected. "I heard that the medicine in Pakistan, especially for the eyes, was the best in the world."

* Al Nusayri said he was in the Taliban prison for approximately two and a half months. Then the Taliban kept him, and a number of other prisoners on the farm for about 15 days. Then the Taliban told them they were going to aid them to cross into Pakistan where they could return to their family. Parts of their trip to Pakistan was on foot. Other parts were by truck. Once they arrived at a village in Pakistan there was a feast, and then he and the other prisoners were woken in the middle of the night and handed over to Pakistani soldiers.

* Al Nuaayri confirmed that he never carried a weapon during his travels. He was still a prisoner during his passage through the mountains.

* Al Nusayri was a prisoner in a bus transporting prisoners from one prison to another, that was fired at, and crashed::"While I was in prison. They were moving us from one prison to another prisoa I was on the bus sleeping. I heard people firing at the bus and I got hit with a bullet in my arm and broke my arm. The bus turned over, and they just kept moving us. From that point, they took me to Pakistan and took me to the hospital there."

* Al Nusayri said he had no idea why he was being detained for a very long time.
* Al Nusayri confirmed he had some weapons training when he was a police officer in Saudi Arabia. He had worked as a police officer for five or six years, where his duties consisted of staffing an office in a hospital, and taking statements from people who were injured. He also moonlighted as a taxi driver.
* Al Nusayri said he paid for his own travel expenses.

Repatriation

According to The Saudi Repatriates Report, Al Nusayri was one of sixteen men repatriated on December 14 2006.cite web
url=http://www.fotofest.org/guantanamo/SaudiReport.pdf
title=The Saudi Repatriates Report
author=Anant Raut, Jill M. Friedman
date=March 19 2007
accessdate=April 21
accessyear=2007]

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