Khalid Mohammed Salih Al Dhuby

Khalid Mohammed Salih Al Dhuby 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 506.American intelligence analysts estimate that Al Dhuby was born in 1981, in Ta'if, Saudi Arabia.

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.

Allegations

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. Khalid Mohammed Salih Al Dhuby was one of those 169 detainees. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_mar05.pdf#263 Summary of Evidence memo (.pdf)] prepared for Khalid Mohammed Salih Al Dhuby's "Combatant Status Review Tribunal" - October 8 2004 - page 263]

:""'a. The detainee is associated with the Taliban and al Qaida forces::#"The detainee is a ####### ####### ####### ####### in Saudi Arabia and he wanted to go to Afghanistan to receive training.:#"The detainee was recruited to go to Afghanistan to fight.:#"The detainee traveled to Afghanistan via Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates; Pakistan and finally Qandahar, Afghanistan.:#"The detainee went to the al Farouq camp and completed basic training.:#"The detainee received training on the use of the Kalashnikov rifle, PK rifle, and rocket propelled grenade (RPG).:#"The detainee traveled to Tora Bora, was issued a Kalashnikov rifle with ammunition, and was told it was to defend himself against the opposition force.:#"The detainee was taken to the caves in the mountains above Tora Bora when the United States bombing began during Ramadan 2001.:#"The detainee was captured by the Northern Alliance, during an Allied offensive, and taken to prison in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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