Abdul Haddi Bin Hadiddi

Abdul Haddi Bin Hadiddi is a citizen of Tunisia 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] Hadiddi's Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 717.The Department of Defense reports that he was born on March 18 1969, in Bir'Alash, sic Tunisia.

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 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.

Allegations

During the winter and spring of 2005 the Department of Defense complied with a Freedom of Information Act request, and released five files that contained 507 memoranda which each summarized the allegations against a single detainee. These memos, entitled "Summary of Evidence" were prepared for the detainee's Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The detainee's names and ID numbers were redacted from all but one of these memos, when they were first released in 2005. But some of them contain notations in pen. 169 of the memos bear a hand-written notation specifying the detainee's ID number. One of the memos had a notation specifying Hadiddi's detainee ID. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_mar05.pdf#53 Summary of Evidence (.pdf)] prepared for Abdul Haddi Bin Hadiddi's "Combatant Status Review Tribunals" - October 13 2004 - page 53] The allegations he would have faced, during his Tribunal, were:

:""'a. The detainee is associated with al Qaida and the Taliban::#"The detainee is ############## who traveled to Jalalabad, Afghanistan via Morocco; and Pakistan in August 2001.:#"The detainee was identified as a suspected terrorist facilitator in Italy and as being a suspected member of the Algerian Armed Islamic Group.:#"The Algerian Armed Islamic Group is listed as a terrorist organization.:#"The detainee was identified by a senior al Qaida operative as an individual known to be a good document forger in Peshawar, Pakistan.:#"The same senior al Qaida operative noted that the detainee was familiar with the Tunisians in Italy.:#"The detainee and ############# reportedly were recruited in Italy and eventually indoctrinated and mobilized for the "Defense of the Islamic Cause in Bosnia, Chechnya and Afghanistan".:#"The detainee reportedly received military training on the use of light arms in the Derunta Camp in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.:#"The detainee may have associated with the Taliban near Khowst, Afghanistan.:#"The detainee possibly has been associated with Tunisian training camps in Afghanistan.:#"The detainee possibly has been associated with the Tunisian Combat Group (TCG/CGT) who declared Jihad against the west in support of Usama Bin Ladin.:#"The Tunisian Combat Group (TCG/CGT) is listed as a terrorist organization and is associated with al Qaida.:#"The detainee was captured in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Testimony

There is no record thatHadiddi chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

References