Abdulah Alhamiri

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subject_name = Abdulah Alhamiri

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citizenship = United Arab Emirates
detained_at = Guantanamo
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Abdulah Alhamiri is a citizen of United Arab Emirates held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. [http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] Alhamiri's Guantanamo detainee ID is 48.He was born on October 25 1979, in Alan, United Arab Emirates.

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

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 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.

Administrative Review Board hearings

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.

Summary of Evidence memos were prepared for Abdulah Alhamiri's first and second annual Administrative Review Board hearings on February 23 2005 and February 10 2006.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000944-001045.pdf#41
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of
publisher=United States Department of Defense
author=OARDEC
pages=pages 41-42
date=2005-02-23
accessdate=2008-07-29
quote= ] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_1-99.pdf#94
pages=pages 94-95
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of
publisher=United States Department of Defense
author=OARDEC
date=2006-02-10
accessdate=2008-07-29
quote= ] The two memos were identical, except the 2006 memo had one additional final factor favoring continued detention.

The following primary factors favor continued detention:

:"'a. Commitment:#Approximately two weeks after September 11, 2001, detainee was taken to the front lines in Kabul, where he manned an observation post and constructed defensive positions.:#The detainee stated that he does not like the American Government.:#The detainee stated that Jihad is the duty of all Muslims and that if an Imam orders it then he would fight.:#The detainee made it very clear that he would kill Americans if they came against Islam.

:"'b. Training:#Detainee received small arms training at a camp in Omarsaif sic and served as an interpreter for the camp physician.

:"'c. Connections and Associations:#The detainee was linked to various individuals suspected of being members of al Qaida.

:"'d. Intent:#The detainee stated that any Muslim who allies himself with an American forfeits Islam and paradise.:#In June 2001 the detainee left the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and traveled to Afghanistan to conduct his personal Jihad.

:"'e. Other Relevant Data:#Detainee was a student at Portland State University and left the United States to help the Taliban build an Islamic State in Afghanistan.

The following primary factors favor release or transfer

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econd annual Administrative Review Board

The Summary of Evidence memo drafted, on February 10 2006 was identical to the one drafted for his first annual Administrative Review Board on February 23 2005, except that one more factor was added to the sub-section titled "Other Relevant Data":quotation
The detainee continued to refuse to speak or answer questions posed to him during interviews.

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