Ibrahim Fauzee

Ibrahim Fauzeeis a citizen of the Maldives, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba. [http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] His detainee ID number is 730. Intelligence analysts estimate he was born November 11 1978, in Thulhaadhoo, Maldives.

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.

ummary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Ibrahim FauzeeCombatant Status Review Tribunal, on
13 December 2004.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000500-000599.pdf#95
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Fauzee, Ibrahim
date=13 December 2004
pages=page 95
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-01-27] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

:"'A. The detainee is associated with al Qaida and/or the Taliban::#The detainee was arrested in Pakistan while he was living in a suspected al Qaida safehouse.:#The detainee's point of contact telephone number was found in other terrorist detainee's pocket litter.:#The detainee's point of contact telephone number was associated with a Sudanese teacher who assisted Arabs traveling to training camps in Afghanistan.

Transcript

There is no record that Ibrahim Fauzee participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.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]

Determined not to have been an Enemy Combatant

The Washington Post reports that Fauzee was one of 38 detainees who was determined not to have been an enemy combatant during his Combatant Status Review Tribunal. [http://projects.washingtonpost.com/guantanamo/nlec/ Guantanamo Bay Detainees Classifed as "No Longer Enemy Combatants"] , "Washington Post"] They report that Fauzee has been released.The Department of Defense refers to these men as No Longer Enemy Combatants.

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