Abdul Majid Muhammed

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Abdul Majid Muhammed

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date_of_birth = Birth year and age|1978
place_of_birth = Zahedan, Iran
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detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 555
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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status = cleared for release or repatriation
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Abdul Majid Muhammed is a citizen of Iran, 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 555.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate Muhammed was born in 1978, in Zahedan, Iran.

Press reports

"The Guardian" reported on March 15 2006 that Muhammad was accused of serving as a night watchman for the Taliban. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5688326,00.html Sketches of Guantanamo Detainees-Part II] , "The Guardian", March 15 2006]

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 United States 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 Abdul Majid Muhammed's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 3 December 2004.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000400-000499.pdf#74
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Muhammed, Abdul Majid
date=3 December 2004
author=OARDEC
page=page 74
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-11-06] :

Transcript

Muhammed chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.cite web
url=http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Transcript_Set_7_20497-20750.pdf#90
title=Summary of Administrative Review Board Proceedings of ISN 555
date=date redacted
author=OARDEC
pages=pages 90-97
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-28] In the Spring of 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published an eight page ummarized transcripts 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=]

Muhammed's Opening Statement

Muhammed acknowledged that working in the drug trade was a bad thing. He pointed out that he had been well behaved while in Guantanamo. He claimed he is a peaceful person, who disliked fighting. He pointed out to the Board that he is a Catholic. He stated he doesn't disrespect any religion.

Muhammed told his Board that he had tried to kill himself in Guantanamo. He has told the prisoners who wanted to kill him to go ahead and kill him.

Muhammed pleaded for the Board's help in returning to Iran. He told the Board that two months previously he had received a letter from home, saying a drug dealer had killed his daughter. He said that he owed a large debt to this drug dealer, and that is why he went to Afghanistan, to pay off the debt.

Release

The recommendation Abdul Majid Muhammed's Board prepared for Gordon England, the Designated Civilian Official, were released in early September 2007.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Decision_memos_000392-000483.pdf#10
title=Administrative Review Board assessment and recommendation ICO ISN 555 (Iran)
date=August 19 2005
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-11-06
page=10] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Decision_memos_000392-000483.pdf#10-
title=Classified record of proceedings and basis for Administrative Review Board decision for ISN 555
date=August 19 2005
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-11-06
pages=11-15] The documents were heavily redacted.They indicate that the Board relied on classified documents from the CIA, the FBI, the United States Department of State and the DASD-DA.The Board's recommendation was unanimous. The Board's recommendation was redacted.

The Board concluded that Abjul Majid Muhammed continued to represent a threat to the United States.

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