Idris Ahmed Abdu Qader Idris

Idris Ahmed Abdu Qader Idris is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detaineesFOIrelease15May2006.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] His detainee ID number is 035.American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1979, in Rada, Yemen.

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 Tribunal. 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.

To comply with a Freedom of Information Act request, during the winter and spring of 2005, the Department of Defense released 507 memoranda. Those 507 memoranda each contained the allegations against a single detainee, prepared for their Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The detainee's name and ID numbers were redacted from all but one of the memoranda. However 169 of the memoranda had the detainee's ID hand-written on the top right hand of the first page corner. When the Department of Defense complied with a court order, and released official lists of the detainee's names and ID numbers it was possible to identify who those 169 were written about. Idris Ahmed Abdu Qader Idris was one of those 169 detainees. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_mar05.pdf Summary of Evidence memo (.pdf)] prepared for Idris Ahmed Abdu Qader Idris's "Combatant Status Review Tribunal" - September 30 2004 page 246]

Allegations

:""'a. The detainee is a member of the Taliban::#"The detainee ####### #######, voluntarily traveled from Italy to Afghanistan in May 1999 to attend the Khaldan training camp.:#"The detainee received training on the Kalishnikov "sic" rifle, other assault rifles, machine guns, and pistols at the Khaldan camp.:#"The detainee received training on rocket-propelled grenade launchers (RPGs), explosives (C-3, C-4, dynamite and electronic detonators), 75mm mortars, the BM and the SPG-9 at the Khaldan camp.:#"The detainee received additional explosives training in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, which involved manufacturing explosives using fertilizer and ammonium "sic".:#"The detainee stayed at an al Qaida guesthouse in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

:""'b. The detainee participated in military operations against the coalition.:#"The detainee went to the fight on the front lines in Afghanistan in March 2001.:#"The detainee fought on the front lines until November 2001.:#"The detainee admitted to fighting against U.S. and Northern Alliance forces.

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