Noor Uthman Muhammaed

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Noor Uthman Muhammaed

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place_of_birth = Kasala, Sudan
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detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 707
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alias = Muhammed Noor Uthman Zamir Muhammed
charge = Charges initiated May 23 2008.
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Noor Uthman Muhammaed is a citizen of Sudan, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba. Muhammed's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 707.The Department of Defense reports that Muhammed was born in Kasala sic, Sudan.

Identity

Captive 707 was identified inconsistently on official Department of Defense documents:
*Captive 707 was identified as Noor Uthman Muhammaed on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 19 October 2004, and on six official lists of captives' names.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000500-000599.pdf#73
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Muhammaed, Noor Uthman (published September 2007)
date=19 October 2004
pages=pages 73-74
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-06] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf
title=List of detainee who went through complete CSRT process
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=April 20 2006
accessdate=2007-09-29] 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] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_CSRT_unclassified_summaries.pdf
title=Index for Combatant Status Review Board unclassified summaries of evidence
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=July 17 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_CSRT_detainees_testimony.pdf
title=Index for testimony
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=September 4 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_1_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf
title=Index to Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round One
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=August 9 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_2_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf
title=Index of Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round Two
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=July 17 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29]
*Captive 707 was identified as Muhammed Noor Uthman on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his first annual Administrative Review Board, on 6 December 2005.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000595-000693.pdf#29
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Uthman, Muhammed Noor
date=6 December 2005
pages=pages 29-30
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-06]
*Captive 707 was identified as Zamir Muhammed on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his second annual Administrative Review Board, on 14 November 2006.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_700-798.pdf#69
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Muhammed, Zamir
date=14 November 2006
pages=pages 69-71
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-06]

When the DoD released an official list of all the captives who had been held in Guantanamo, in military custody, they reported their birth date, or an estimated year of birth, for all but two dozen or so captives. Captive 707 was one of those whose age they neglected to estimate.

Background

Captive 707 is a citizen of Sudan who described working as an instructor at the Khalden training camp, in Afghanistan, from the mid-1990s, until it was shut down in 2000. He denies membership in al Qaida or the Taliban, and described the Khalden camp as being an independent camp.

Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts describe him as being a senior member of al Qaida's leadership cadre.

Charges were initiated against Noor Uthman Muhammed on May 23 2008.cite news
url=http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i9RQHdm30VOq5QehUXYnnGjHdlkAD90RK87G0
title=Sudanese terror suspect charged at Guantanamo Bay
publisher=Associated Press
date=May 23 2008
accessdate=2008-05-23
quote=According to the charges, Muhammed was a member of al-Qaida, trained at a camp in Afghanistan and later become a weapons instructor. From 1996 to 2000 he was deputy commander of the camp, where he oversaw its operations. [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fap.google.com%2Farticle%2FALeqM5i9RQHdm30VOq5QehUXYnnGjHdlkAD90RK87G0&date=2008-05-23 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnN23295928.html
title=Pentagon charges detainee with terrorism support
publisher=Reuters
date=May 23 2008
accessdate=2008-05-23
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fafrica.reuters.com%2Fwire%2Fnews%2FusnN23295928.html&date=2008-05-23 mirror] ]

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 Tribunal. 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 Noor Uthman Muhammaed'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal, on
19 October 2004. cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_mar05.pdf#264
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- name redacted (published March 2005)
date=19 October 2004
pages=pages 264-265
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-06] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000500-000599.pdf#73
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Muhammaed, Noor Uthman (published September 2007)
date=19 October 2004
pages=pages 73-74
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-06] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

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*Noor replied to the allegation that a senior al Qaeda lieutenant provided him with a Somali passport by saying: "I don't have a Somali passport, I don't have a passport, I don't have anything."
*Noor replied to the allegation that a senior al Qaeda lieutenant ran the safehouse where he was captured by saying: "As far as that point is concerned, I don't know anything about this house sic. What I know is that I know Abu Zubayda sic was the person in charge of that safehouse sic. He is the person that told me sic go to that place until he made the traveling arrangements."
*Noor denied involvement with the Taliban. He said he had never carried arms with them. He said he didn't believe in the merits of their policies.

Testimony for Moazzam Begg

The documents released from Moazzam Begg's Combatant Status Review Tribunal contain a briefaffidavit from Mohammad Nour, a detainee identified with detainee ID number 707.The affidavit states::"I have not seen this man before."

The affidavit is dated
November 10 2004.Nour didn't sign it himself. Begg'sPersonal Representative appended a notestating::"I certify that the detainee, ISN 707, stated the above and could not write his signature. Detainee was shown sic photo of ISN 558.:Moazzam Begg is detainee 558.

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. 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 Muhammed Noor Uthman's first annualAdministrative Review Board, on
6 December 2005.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000595-000693.pdf#29
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Uthman, Muhammed Noor
date=6 December 2005
pages=pages 29-30
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-06] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

The following primary factors favor continued detention:

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The following primary factors favor release or transfer:

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Charges

On May 23 2008 charges were initiated against Noor Uthman Muhammed .The charges won't be official until they are confirmed by Susan Crawford, the Office of Military Commissions Appointing Authoriy.

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