Ayoub Murshid Ali Saleh

Ayoub Murshid Ali Saleh 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 836.The Department of Defense reports that Saleh was born on April 29 1978, in Usabee, 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. Ayoub Murshid Ali Saleh was one of those 169 detainees. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_mar05.pdf#152 Summary of Evidence memo (.pdf)] prepared for Ayoub Murshid Ali Saleh's "Combatant Status Review Tribunal" - October 16 2004 - page 152]

Allegations

:""'a. The detainee is a member of the Taliban or al Qaida::#"The detainee voluntarily traveled to Afghanistan to join the Jihad in June 2000.:#"The detainee stayed at a Taliban house in Quetta, Pakistan during his travel to Afghanistan.:#"The detainee stayed at a Taliban house in Kandahar, Afghanistan.:#"The detainee trained at al Farouq training camp.:#"While at al Farouq, the detainee trained on the Kalashnikov, BEKA, ROG sic, Molotov cocktails, defensive and offensive grenades, topography, crawling, signals, and how to ignite 50 grams of TNT sic.:#"The detainee also took a one-month artillery course at Karghar, in Kabul, Afghanistan.:#"The detainee stayed at several Taliban houses while in Kabul, Afghanistan.:#"The detainee was in Kabul, Afghanistan when the U.S. bombing campaign began.:#"The detainee met with a high-ranking al Qaida facilitator, who helped smuggle him from Pakistan to Iran.:#"The detainee returned to Karachi, Pakistan where Pakistani police arrested him on 11 September 2002.

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