Abib Sarajuddin

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Abib Sarajuddin

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date_of_birth = Birth year and age|1942
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id_number = 458
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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status = Cleared for repatriation in December 2005. Still in US custody as of April 2007.
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Abib Sarajuddin 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] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 458.Guantanamo intelligence analysts estimate that he was born in 1942.

ummary

Sarajuddin, his brother Khan Zaman, his son Gul Zaman, and his neighbor Mohammad Gul, were all captured on the night of January 21 2002, early during the administration of Hamid Karzai. [http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0202-01.htm Villagers Add to Reports of Raids Gone Astray] , "New York Times", February 2 2002] Gul Zaman, and Mohammad Gul were released. Abib Sarajuddin and Khan Zaman Tribunals confirmed the original determination that they had been correctly classified as "enemy combatants.

Identity

Another Guantanamo captive, identified by the "Washington Post" was identified as Sarajudim.cite news
url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A29276-2003Mar25&notFound=true
title=Returning Afghans Talk of Guantanamo: Out of Legal Limbo, Some Tell of Mistreatment
publisher=Washington Post
date=March 26, 2003
accessdate=2007-02-27] Sarajudim is not a name listed on the official list of captives. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/d20060515%20list.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] The "Washington Post" reported that Sarajudim was one of eighteen men repatriated to Afghanistan on March 22 2003, and released with a certificate of innocence by Afghan authorities on March 26 2003.

New York Times article

The New York Times published an article about the search for Jalaluddin Haqqani, and how it lead to the aerial bombardment of Sarajuddin's home.
John F. Burns, [http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0202-01.htm Villagers Add to Reports of Raids Gone Astray] , "New York Times", February 2 2002] The New York Times article was presented as an exhibit to Sarajuddin's Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

The New York Times article said that Sarajuddin hosted Jalaluddin Haqqini overnight out of traditional hospitality; that other villagers had reported Haqqini's stay; and that American forces had bombarded Sarajuddin's household from the air, on November 16 2002, killing everyone except Sarajuddin and Haqqini. According to the New York Times, Sarajuddin, and the other three were arrested on January 21 2002.The New York Times quoted various American officers who predicted that Sarajuddin would soon be released.

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 Abib Sarajuddin'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal, on 22 November 2004.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000400-000499.pdf#7
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Sarajuddin, Abib
date=22 November 2004
pages=page 7
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-05-23] The memo listed the following allegations against him:':

Transcript

Sarajuddin chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing. cite web
url=http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Transcript_Set_6_20255-20496.pdf#193
title=Summary of Administrative Review Board Proceedings of ISN 458
date=date redacted
author=OARDEC
pages=pages 193-206
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-05-24] In the Spring of 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a 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=]

Testimony

Sarajuddin acknowledged going to Saudi Arabia, once, for Hajj.

Sarajuddin denied any involvement with Tabligh Jamaat. He did once worship at a mosque named Jamaat.

Sarajuddin denied that any of his family members ever said that he gave shelter to Jalaluddin Haqqani. He denied that his son stated that Jalaluddin and his bodyguards came to his house and requested to stay. Rather he had a letter from his son that said the complete opposite. The Presiding Officer acknowledged that this letter had been filed into evidence. Sarajuddin asked him if the petition from everyone in his village had been entered into evidence. It hadn't. No one could explain why.

Sarajuddin said he and his relatives and neighbors were not captured in the open, near a Taliban site. They were all captured in their homes. And there were no Taliban installations anywhere in their area.

Sarajuddin said he had never denied that his house was bombed. He had told the whole world hishouse was bombed.

Sarajuddin said that the allegation that he was denying his house being bombed seemed to contradictthe allegation that he went to the governor to request compensation for his house being bombed.However he did not approach the governor himself. His tribal elder Nazim approached him on hisbehalf.

Sarajuddin denied that there was any firing when he was captured.

Sarajuddin denied that he possessed a transceiver, or that anyone he knew possesses a transceiver.

His Board's Presiding Officer returned to the question of whether there had been any firing during the capture, and said: :

Board recommendations

In early September 2007 the Department of Defense released two heavily redacted memos, from his Board, to Gordon England, the Designated Civilian Official.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Decision_memos_000860-000968.pdf$67
title=Administrative Review Board assessment and recommendation ICO ISN 458
date=10 December 2005
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-05-23
pages=page 67] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Decision_memos_000860-000968.pdf#68
title=Classified Record of Proceedings and basis of Administrative Review Board recommendation for ISN 458
date=13 October 2005
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-05-17
pages=pages 68-73] The Board's recommendation was unanimousThe Board's recommendation was redacted.England authorized transfer on 10 December 2005.

McClatchy interview

On June 15 2008 the McClatchy News Service published articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives. McClatchy reporters interviewed Sarajuddin. cite news
url=http://services.mcclatchyinteractive.com/detainees?page=3
title=Guantanamo Inmate Database: Page 3
publisher=McClatchy News Service
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 15 2008
accessdate=2008-06-16
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fservices.mcclatchyinteractive.com%2Fdetainees%3Fpage%3D3&date=2008-06-18 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/611/story/491372.html
title=U.S. hasn't apologized to or compensated ex-detainees
publisher=Myrtle Beach Sun
author=Tom Lasseter
date=Wednesday June 18, 2008
accessdate=2008-06-18
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrtlebeachonline.com%2F611%2Fstory%2F491372.html&date=2008-06-18 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38771.html
title=Pentagon declined to answer questions about detainees
publisher=McClatchy News Service
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 15 2008
accessdate=2008-06-20
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcclatchydc.com%2Fhomepage%2Fstory%2F38771.html&date=2008-06-20 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38776.html
title=Documents undercut Pentagon's denial of routine abuse
publisher=McClatchy News Service
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 16 2008
accessdate=2008-06-20
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcclatchydc.com%2Fhomepage%2Fstory%2F38776.html&date=2008-06-20 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38887.html
title=Deck stacked against detainees in legal proceedings
publisher=McClatchy News Service
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 19 2008
accessdate=2008-06-20
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcclatchydc.com%2Fhomepage%2Fstory%2F38887.html&date=2008-06-20 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38775.html
title=U.S. abuse of detainees was routine at Afghanistan bases
publisher=McClatchy News Service
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 16 2008
accessdate=2008-06-20
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcclatchydc.com%2Fhomepage%2Fstory%2F38775.html&date=2008-06-20 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/29
title=Guantanamo Inmate Database: Sarajuddin
publisher=McClatchy News Service
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 15 2008
accessdate=2008-06-15
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdetainees.mcclatchydc.com%2Fdetainees%2F29&date=2008-08-01 mirror] ] The McClatchy report repeats Sarajuddin's denial that he had any ties with Jalladudin Haqqani. But, according to the McClatchy report, the "New York Times" reported the airstrike that destroyed his home, and killed his relatives, occurred when Jalladudin Haqqani was present. According to the McClatchy report neighbors and local officials stated that Sarajuddin did have ties to Haqqani.

Sarajuddin told reporters he suffered ongoing mental problems caused by his experiences in US custody.

References

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*cite news
url=http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/29
title=Guantanamo Inmate Database: Sarajuddin
publisher=Miami Herald
author=Carol Rosenberg
date=June 15 2008
accessdate=2008-06-16
quote=