Bader Al Bakri Al Samiri

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subject_name = Bader Al Bakri Al Samiri

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Bader Al Bakri Al Samiriis a citizen of Saudi Arabia held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. [http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] Al Samiri's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 274.American intelligence analysts estimate that he was born in 1972, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Initially the Bush Presidency 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 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 Presidency's definition of an enemy combatant.

ummary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Bader Al Bakri Al Samiri'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal, on 13 October 2004.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000300-000399.pdf#15
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Al Samiri, Bader Al Bakri
date=13 October 2004
pages=page 15
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-01-19] The memo listed the following allegations against him::

Transcript

Captive 274 chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Transcript_Set_18_23052-23263.pdf
title=Summarized Administrative Review Board Detainee Statement
date=date redacted
author=OARDEC
pages=pages 86-91
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-01-21] The Department of Defense released a six page summarized transcript of the hearing.

Opening statement

Captive 274 said his name was "Alwad Awath"::

The following primary factors favor release or transfer:

:

Transcript

Captive 274 participated in his Board hearing.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Transcript_2196-2293.pdf#13
title=Summary of Administrative Review Board Proceedings of ISN 274
date=date redacted
author=OARDEC
pages=pages 13-26
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-01-21] In September 2007 the DoD released a 14 page summarized transcript from his 2006 Board hearing.

Repatriation

A Saudi named Bakri Awad Bakri al-Sameeri was one of sixteen Saudi captives repatriated from Guantanamo on September 16 2007.cite news
url=http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=10114
title=Sixteen Saudis return from Guantanamo Bay prison
date=September 6 2007
accessdate=2007-09-07
work=Asharq Al-Awsat]

ee also

*Guantanamo detainees associated with illicit drugs

References