Abdul Ghani (Guantanamo captive 934)

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subject_name = Abdul Ghani

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id_number = 934
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charge = Charged with attempted murder on 2008-07-28
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Abdul Ghani 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
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2006-05-15
quote=] Abdul Ghani's Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 934.The Department of Defense estimates captive 934 was born in 1972.

On 28 July 2008 the Department of Defense announced charges against Abdul Ghani before a Guantanamo Military Commission.cite news
url=http://www.defenselink.mil/news/00934%20charge%20sheet%20-%20signed.pdf
title=Charge Sheet: Abdul Ghani
publisher=United States Department of Defense
author=
date=2008-07-28
accessdate=2008-07-29
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.defenselink.mil%2Fnews%2F00934%2520charge%2520sheet%2520-%2520signed.pdf&date=2008-07-29 mirror] ]

Identity

American intelligence analysts estimate Abdul Ghani was born in 1972.American intelligence analysts listed a place of birth for all but 22 of the detainees. Abdul Ghani, detainee 934 was one of those 22.Guantanamo held another detainee named Abdul Ghani.His Guantanamo detainee ID number is 943. American intelligence analysts estimated he was born in 1983, in Kandahar, Afghanistan -- the same area this Abdul Ghani testified he was from.

CSRT-Yescite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000600-000699.pdf#67
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Ghani, Abdul
date=16 October 2004
pages=page 67
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-07] cite web
url=http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_44_2922-3064.pdf#1
title=Summarized Detainee Unsworn Statement
date=date redacted
pages=pages 1-8
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-01]

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The following primary factors favor release or transfer:

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Transcript

Ghani chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing. cite web
url=http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Transcript_Set_9_21017-21351.pdf#217
title=Summary of Administrative Review Board Proceedings for ISN 934
date=December 14 2005
pages=pages 217-227
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-07] In the Spring of 2006 the Department of Defense was forced, by a court order, to publish an eleven page summarized transcript from Abdul Ghani's Review Board hearing.

Confusion

Abdul Ghani's hearing started with his expression of confusion over his Board's Presiding Officer reading of the hearing's procedures. He was confused over:
*the nature of "classified evidence"
*why he was being called an "enemy combatant".
*why he couldn't learn the identity of the witness who made the allegations against him.had a dialogue about classified evidence:

Enemy Combatant election form

Abdul Ghani's
Assisting Military Officer's notes from the Enemy Combatant election form said they met on December 1 2005 for 60 minutes.The Assisting Military Officer asserted that Abdul Ghani understood the difference between the Combatant Status Review Tribunals and Administrative Review Board hearings.The Assisting Military Officer described Abdul Ghani as "very polite and attentive".

Response to the factors

*Abdul Ghani acknowledged scavenging six abandoned rockets left over from when the local Taliban fled the American retaliatory attack. He said that the Taliban abandoned everything, including their vehicles.
*Abdul Ghani said that he sold the rockets to Skanda Shah; that Skanda Shah said he was going to resell the rockets to someone else; that Skanda Shah asked him to help him carry the rockets to the second buyer; they each carried two rockets each.
*Abdul Ghani said that when they were passing near the Kandahar airfield Skanda Shah surprised him by setting up the rockets to fire at the airfield.
*Abdul Ghani said that Skanda Shah was captured first, and that when American forces came to capture him he was completely cooperative, and volunteered the location of the remaining rockets.

econd annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Abdul Ghani'ssecond annualAdministrative Review Board, on
26 October 2006.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_799-899.pdf#84
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Ghani, Abdul
date=26 October 2006
pages=pages 84-86
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-07] 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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