Ahmed Bin Kadr Labed

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Ahmed Bin Kadr Labed

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place_of_birth = Algiers, Algeria
date_of_arrest = March 28, 2002
place_of_arrest= Faisalabad, Pakistan
arresting_authority= Pakistani intelligence and the CIA
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id_number = 703
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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Ahmed Bin Kadr Labed is a citizen of Algeria, 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 703.The US Department of Defense reports that he was born in April 3, 1958, in Algiers, Algeria.

Background

Ahmed Bin Kadr Labed spent considerable time in Europe, including Hamburg.He is alleged to have attended the al Farouq training camp in September, 2001.He is alleged to have been smuggled out of Afghanistan, by al Qaeda, in a small group that included Jose Padilla.

He is alleged to have been moved to various al Qaeda safe houses in the Faisalabad/Lahore region. He was captured together with Abu Zubaydah, Jabran Al Qahtani, Sufyian Barhoumi, Ghassan al-Shirbi and Abdul Zahir on March 28, 2002 at a Faisalabad safe house.These five captives were among the twenty who would eventually face charges before a Guantanamo military commission.

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 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 Ahmed Bin Kadr Labed'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal, on 18 October 2004.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000500-000599.pdf#68
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Labed, Ahmed Bin Kadr
date=18 October 2004
pages=page 68
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-06-23] The memo listed the following allegations against him: :

Transcript

Labed chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal. cite web
url=http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_36_2493-2577.pdf#1
title=Summarized Statement
date=date redacted
pages=pages 1-12
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-06-23] On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.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

Administrative Review Board hearing

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.cite news
url=http://www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil/storyarchive/2007/07octstories/102907-2-oardec.html
title=OARDEC provides recommendations to Deputy Secretary of Defense
publisher=JTF Guantanamo Public Affairs
author=Army Sgt. Sarah Stannard
date=October 29, 2007
accessdate=2008-03-26
quote=] 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 Ahmed Bin Kadr Labed'sfirst annual Administrative Review Board, on 16 September 2005.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000595-000693.pdf#20
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Labed, Ahmed Bin Kadr
date=16 September 2005
pages=pages 20-23
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-06-23] The four page memo listed twenty-eight "primary factors favor [ing] continued detention" and two "primary factors favor [ing] release or transfer".

According to the memo:
*Ahmed Bin Kadr Labed had been in and out of prison most of his adult life. His convictions in Algeria included theft and statutory rape.
*Ahmed Bin Kadr Labed had moved to Europe in the 1990s, where he was convicted of pickpocketing, forging checks, and dealing drugs.
*Ahmed Bin Kadr Labed allegedly told interrogators he traveled to Afghanistan to engage in jihad to make up for his life of crime.
*Ahmed Bin Kadr Labed allegedly told interrogators he accepted help traveling to Afghanistan nominally to engage in jihad, but his real intent was to buy cheap drugs to resell back in Europe.
*Ahmed Bin Kadr Labed allegedly recruited by Said Bahaji a "known al Qaida facilitator during Ramadan 2000.
*Ahmed Bin Kadr Labed allegedly traveled to Pakistan on September 3, 2001, and spent three days in Karachi, prior to traveling Afghanistan.
*Ahmed Bin Kadr Labed allegedly attended the al Farouq training camp for thirteen days.
*Ahmed Bin Kadr Labed was allegedly smuggled out of Afghanistan in December with a small group of men which included Jose Padilla and another of his "dirty bomb" conspirators.
*Ahmed Bin Kadr Labed was captured with Abu Zubaydah
*Ahmed Bin Kadr Labed claims he bears no ill-will to Americans, and feels his life of crime merits punishment.

Transcript

Labed chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing. cite web
url=http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Transcript_Set_8_20751-21016.pdf#107
title=Summary of Administrative Review Board Proceedings of ISN 703
date=2005-10-11
author=OARDEC
pages=pages 107-122
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-06-23] In the Spring of 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a sixteen 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=]

Testimony

* Ahmed confirmed that he spent a few days as a door-to-door campaigner for the Muslim charity Tablighi Jamaat, in Germany, in the 1990s. He stated he couldn't respond to the allegation that Tablighi Jamaat had secret ties to terrorism because he didn't like the organization and left after three days.
* Ahmed disputed he traveled to Afghanistan to engage in Jihad. He testified he traveled to Afghanistan to buy drugs to resell in Europe.
* Ahmed confirmed engaging in hostilities against the Northern Alliance in the fall of 2001.
* Ahmed was alleged to have covertly traveled from Afghanistan to Pakistan in a group which included Jose Padilla and Fouad Zousoul (aka Talka al-Kini). Ahmed stated his two traveling companions were a Russian and a Yemeni, who both also ended up in Guantanamo.

econd annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Abdallah Husseini'ssecond annual Administrative Review Board, on 16 June 2006.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_700-798.pdf#62
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Husseini, Abdallah
date=16 June 2006
pages=pages 62-65
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-06-23] The four page memo listed thirty-two "primary factors favor [ing] continued detention" and five "primary factors favor [ing] release or transfer".

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