Fayiz Ahmad Yahia Suleiman

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subject_name = Fayiz Ahmad Yahia Suleiman


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date_of_birth = Birth year and age|1974
place_of_birth = Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 153
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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Fayiz Ahmad Yahia Suleiman is a citizen of Yemen 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] His Guantanamo detainee ID number is 153.American intelligence analysts estimate Suleiman was born in 1974 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

] Three chairs were reserved for members of the press, but only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were observed.cite web
url=http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=3902
title=Annual Administrative Review Boards for Enemy Combatants Held at Guantanamo Attributable to Senior Defense Officials
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=March 6 date=December 2007

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 Fayiz Ahmad Yahia Suleiman'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal, on October 12 2004.cite news
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_mar05.pdf#143
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Suleiman, Fayiz Ahmad Yahia
date=October 12 2004
author=OARDEC
pages=pages 53-54
publisher=United States Department of Defense
pages=pages 143-144] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000101-000200.pdf#53
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Suleiman, Fayiz Ahmad Yahia
date=October 12 2004
author=OARDEC
pages=pages 53-54
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-12-04] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

:"'a. The detainee is associated with al Qaida and the Taliban::#Originally from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, [When this memo was first released in March 2005 "Jeddah, Saudi Arabia" was redacted.] the detainee traveled to Jalalabad, Afghanistan via Hudaida, Yemen; Sana sic Yemen; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Karachi , Pakistan; Quetta, Pakistan; and Kabul, Afghanistan.:#The detainee worked for a suspected al Qaida operative in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.:#The detainee trained in Khandahar sic, Afghanistan to make poisons.:#Two of the detainee's aliases are listed in a document recovered from a safehouse raid associated with suspected al Qaida members in Karachi, Pakistan.

:"'b. The detainee participated in military operations against the United States and its coalition partners::#The detainee was a member of an Arab fighting group against the Northern Alliance in Talaqoun.:#The detainee was a nurse at Talaquon while fighting the Northern Alliance and was at Tora Bora before trying to cross the border into Pakistan.:#The detainee was arrested in December 2001, by Pakistani authorities attempting to cross the border from Afghanistan with other Arabs.

Testimony

There is no record thatFayiz Ahmad Yahia Suleiman chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

Administrative Review Board hearing

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.

First annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Fayiz Ahmad Yahia Suleiman's first annual Administrative Review Board, on 27 May 2005.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000099-000196.pdf#77
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Suleiman, Fayiz Ahmad Yahia
date=27 May 2005
author=OARDEC
pages=pages 77-78
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-12-04] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

Transcript

There is no record that Fayiz Ahmad Yahia Suleiman participated in this Board hearing.

econd annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Fayiz Ahmad Yahia Suleiman's second annual Administrative Review Board, on 8 August 2006.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_200-298.pdf#26
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of
date=8 August 2006
author=OARDEC
pages=pages 26-28
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-12-04] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

Transcript

There is no record that Fayiz Ahmad Yahia Suleiman participated in this Board hearing.

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