Saleh Abdall Al Oshan

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Saleh Abdall al Oshan

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date_of_birth = Birth year and age|1979
place_of_birth = Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 248
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
penalty =
status = determined not to be an enemy combatant after all
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Saleh Abdall al Oshan is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, held in extrajudicial detention is the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment 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 248.The Department of Defense reports that al Oshan was born on July 1 1979 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

CSRT-Nocite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000201-000299.pdf#77
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Al Oshan, Saleh Abdall
date=14 Jan 2005
author=OARDEC
pages=pages 77-78
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-11-06]

:"'The detainee is associated with al Qaida::#The detainee traveled to Afghanistan from Saudi Arabia via Pakistan after September 2001.:#The detainee received money to finance his trip to Afghanistan.:#The detainee was injured by sic when he stepped on a landmine in Afghanistan.:#The detainee worked in the Buldak sic area, where the Al-Haramayn relief agency also operated.:#Al-Haramayn is listed in Executive Order 13224 as an agency that supports terrorism.:#One of the name variants of the detainee was found on a list in an al Qaida maintained premise in Kabul and at Fort Koh-I-Khan Nashin in Helamand Province in November 2001.:#The detainee was identified as having sic relationship to al Qaida in Afghanistan.:#The detainee was transported to a hospital in Quetta with other detainees, at least one of which sustained injuries from bombings in Spin Buldak; these detainee together are dubbed the "Quetta five".:#The detainee was captured without proper identification.

Determined to "no longer be an enemy combatant"

A memo entitled "Review of Combatant Status Review Tribunal for detainee ISN 248", dated 10 March 2005, statedcite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/publicly_filed_CSRT_records_1731-1808.pdf#3
title=Review of Combatant Status Review Tribunal for detainee ISN 248
pages=page 3
publisher=OARDEC
author=J.M. McGarrah
date=10 March 2005
accessdate=2007-11-19] :quotation
The Combatant Status Review Tribunal's determination that detainee ISN "###" shall no longer be classified as an enemy combatant is approved.

aleh Abdall Al Oshan v. George W. Bush

Teresa A. McPalmer, a legal advisor to the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants responded to Saleh Abdall Al Oshan v. George W. Bush, a petition on Saleh Abdall Al Oshan's behalf, on 19 May 2005.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/publicly_filed_CSRT_records_1731-1808.pdf#3
title=Saleh Abdall Al Oshan v. George W. Bush
page=pages 1-2
publisher=OARDEC
author=Teresa A. McPalmer
date=19 May 2005
accessdate=2007-11-19] She wrote: quotation
I redacted petitioner Saleh Abdall al Oshan's internment serial number because certain combinations of internment serial numbers with other information relates to sensitive internal and intelligence operations that is not suitable for public release.

Repatriation

Saleh Abdall Al Oshan was one of the 38 captives the Bush Presidency determined had not been enemy combatants after all.cite news
url=http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2008/03/27/20/NLEC_DetaineeList.source.prod_affiliate.56.pdf
title=Detainees Found to No Longer Meet the Definition of "Enemy Combatant" during Combatant Status Review Tribunals Held at Guantanamo
publisher=United States Department of Defense
author=
date=November 19, 2007
accessdate=2008-04-15
quote=]

Reuters cites a Human Rights Watch report that said that an individual named Salih al-Awshan, and two other Saudis, were repatriated to Saudi custody on July 20 2005.cite web
url=http://www.fotofest.org/guantanamo/SaudiReport.pdf
title=The Saudi Repatriates Report
author=Anant Raut, Jill M. Friedman
date=March 19 2007
accessdate=2007-04-21] [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HRW/5b4fb18f40ca51d56c447200d2d10865.htm Saudi Arabia: Guantanamo Detainees Return to Legal Limbo] , "Reuters", May 26 2006] As of May 26 2006 the three remain held, without charge, in Riyadh's al-Ha'ir prison.

ee also

*Mishal Awad Sayaf Alhabri
*Khalid al-'Unaizi

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