Allah Muhammed Saleem

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Allah Muhammed Saleem

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date_of_birth = Birth date|1967|01|13
place_of_birth = Al-Bajoor, Egypt
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detained_at = Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
id_number = 716
group =
alias = Ala Abd Al Maqsut Muhammed Sagim Mazruh
charge = Determined not to have been an enemy combatant after all
penalty =
status = Seeking asylum in Albania
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Allah Muhammed Saleem "(also transliterated as Alaadinn Muhammad Salim)" is a citizen of Egypt who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf
title=List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=May 15 2006
accessdate=2007-09-29] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 716.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts report that he was born on January 13 1967, in Al-Bajoor, Egypt.

Identity

Captive 716 was identified inconsistently on official Department of Defense documents:
*Captive 716 was identified as Ala Abd Al Maqsut Muhammed Sagim Mazruh on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 7 January 2005.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000500-000599.pdf#82
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Mazruh, Ala Abd Al Maqsut Muhammed Sagim
date=7 January 2005
pages=pages 82-83
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-034-23]
*Captive 716 was identified as Allah Muhammed Saleem on his habeas corpus petition, on 12 November 2005, and on the first two official lists of captives' names, published on April 20 2006 and May 15 2006.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf
title=List of detainee who went through complete CSRT process
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=April 20 2006
accessdate=2007-09-29] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/publicly_filed_CSRT_records_3679-3784.pdf
title=Allah Muhammed Saleem v. George W. Bush
date=12 November 2005
pages=pages 55-83
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-04-23]
*Captive 716 was identified as Saleem, Allah Muhammed (Mazruh, Ala Abd Al Maqsut Muhammed Sagim on two official lists of captives' names published in September 2007.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_CSRT_unclassified_summaries.pdf
title=Index for Combatant Status Review Board unclassified summaries of evidence
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=July 17 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_publicly_filed_CSRT_records.pdf
title=Index for CSRT Records Publicly Files in Guantanamo Detainee Cases
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=August 8 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29]
*Captive 716 was identified as Ala Abd Al Maqsut Muhammad Sagim Mazruh in the transcript of his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/publicly_filed_CSRT_records_3679-3784.pdf
title=Allah Muhammed Saleem v. George W. Bush
date=12 November 2005
pages=pages 55-83
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-04-23]

On January 6 2007 the director of the Egyptian human rights group Human Rights Society for Helping Prisoners, Muhammad Zari, released the names of two recently released former Guantanamo captives.cite news
url=http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=7564
title=Egypt: Human Rights Activist Identifies 2 Former Egyptian Guantanamo Detainees
date=January 6 2007
author=Essam Fadl
publisher=Asharq Alawsat
accessdate=2007-01-06] One of the names he released was: "Alaadinn Muhammad Salim", born in Egypt's Al Minufiyah Governorate.Bajour is one of the principal cities in Al Minufiyah.

According to Zari: "Salim pointed out that he was suffering from some health problems resulting from his torture in Guantanamo,"

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 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 Ala Abd Al Maqsut Muhammed Sagim Mazruh's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 7 January 2005.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000500-000599.pdf#82
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Mazruh, Ala Abd Al Maqsut Muhammed Sagim
date=7 January 2005
pages=pages 82-83
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-23] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

:"'a. The detainee is associated with al Qaida::#The detainee has been living under an alias while in detention and is in fact, a fairly significant member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) and al Qaida.:#EIJ is an extremist group that merged with al Qaida.:#In 1998, Doctor Ayman Al-Zawahiri merged EIJ into al Qaida, in effect making all EIJ members al Qaida members.:#The detainee worked for a Bayt al Ansar safehouse in Peshawar, Pakistan (PK).:#Bayt al Ansar refers to safehouses used to organize volunteers for Jihad.:#The Bayt al Anser guesthouse served as a staging area for Mujahadeen on their way in and out of Afghanistan (AF).:#The detainee set a pattern of traveling between Peshawar and Jalalabad, staying at Libyan guesthouses.:#The detainee was captured with an admitted supporter of Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG).:#LIFG is an extremist group with members aligned with al Qaida organization or active in the international Mujahadeen network.:#The detainee was an employee of the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO).:#The IIRO is a large Jeddah-based humanitarian aid organization that performs relief work worldwide, but also is used by Islamic terrorists and insurgents for cover, travel, and funding.:#The detainee was a bodyguard for Usama Bin Ladin.:#The detainee is prominent in the Usama Bin Ladin and Egyptian Islamic Jihad circles.:#The detainee was apprehended during the "Greentown" raids on 3 April 2002, in Lahore, Pakistan.

Transcript

Captive 716 did not attend his Tribunal.

On March 3 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a Summarized transcript from over 300 Tribunals.cite news
url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/US-releases-Guantanamo-files/2006/04/04/1143916500334.html
title=US releases Guantanamo files
publisher=The Age
date=April 4, 2006
accessdate=2008-03-15
quote=] Captive 716's transcript was not published on March 3 2006. A three page summarized transcript from the unclassified session of his Tribunal was published in September 2007, as part of his habeas corpus petition.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/publicly_filed_CSRT_records_3679-3784.pdf#64
title=In Absentia
date=13 January 2005
pages=pages 64-66
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-04-23]

Allah Muhammed Saleem v. George W. Bush

A writ of habeas corpus, Allah Muhammed Saleem v. George W. Bush, was submitted on Allah Muhammed Saleem's behalf.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/publicly_filed_CSRT_records_3679-3784.pdf
title=Allah Muhammed Saleem v. George W. Bush
date=12 November 2005
pages=pages 55-83
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-04-23] In response, on 12 November 2005,the Department of Defense released 29pages of unclassified documents related to his Combatant Status Review Tribunal to his lawyers.Those 29 pages were published in September 2007.

On January 13 2005 Tribunal panel 30 determined he was not an "enemy combatant" after all.

Not an enemy combatant

Two of the three officers who sat on Tribunal panel 30, which convened to confirm or refute his status as an "enemy combatant" voted to recommend that he should not be considered an enemy combatant. The dissenting officer prepared a minority report, which was not published. The unclassfied version of the Tribunal's report did not say why they discounted the allegations against him.

Asylum in Albania

Like five of the Uyghur detainees in Guantanamo the government of Albania agreed to allow Salim to be transferred to Albania, and to apply for Asylum. Salim was transferred to a refugee center there on 17 November 2006. Salim has been visited, in Albania, by his American lawyers. Zari reports that Salim's family in Egypt are not accepting phone calls from either Salim, or his lawyers.

McClatchy interview

On June 15 2008 the McClatchy News Service published articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives. McClatchy reporters interviewed Abd al Maqsut Muhammad Sagim Mazruh. cite news
url=http://services.mcclatchyinteractive.com/detainees?page=7
title=Guantanamo Inmate Database: Page 7
publisher=McClatchy News Service
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 15 2008
accessdate=2008-06-16
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fservices.mcclatchyinteractive.com%2Fdetainees%3Fpage%3D7&date=2008-06-18 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/611/story/491372.html
title=U.S. hasn't apologized to or compensated ex-detainees
publisher=Myrtle Beach Sun
author=Tom Lasseter
date=Wednesday June 18, 2008
accessdate=2008-06-18
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrtlebeachonline.com%2F611%2Fstory%2F491372.html&date=2008-06-18 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38771.html
title=Pentagon declined to answer questions about detainees
publisher=McClatchy News Service
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 15 2008
accessdate=2008-06-20
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcclatchydc.com%2Fhomepage%2Fstory%2F38771.html&date=2008-06-20 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38776.html
title=Documents undercut Pentagon's denial of routine abuse
publisher=McClatchy News Service
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 16 2008
accessdate=2008-06-20
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcclatchydc.com%2Fhomepage%2Fstory%2F38776.html&date=2008-06-20 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38887.html
title=Deck stacked against detainees in legal proceedings
publisher=McClatchy News Service
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 19 2008
accessdate=2008-06-20
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcclatchydc.com%2Fhomepage%2Fstory%2F38887.html&date=2008-06-20 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38775.html
title=U.S. abuse of detainees was routine at Afghanistan bases
publisher=McClatchy News Service
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 16 2008
accessdate=2008-06-20
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcclatchydc.com%2Fhomepage%2Fstory%2F38775.html&date=2008-06-20 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/71
title=Guantanamo Inmate Database: Abd al Maqsut Muhammad Sagim Mazruh
publisher=McClatchy News Service
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 15 2008
accessdate=2008-06-15
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fservices.mcclatchyinteractive.com%2Fdetainees%2F71&date=2008-08-08 mirror] ] He reported being tortured.

The McClatchy report states he was held in the Bagram Theater Detention Facility prior to transfer to Guantanamo.

He has requested that his family be permitted to join him in Albania.

References

External links

*cite news
url=http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/71
title=Guantanamo Inmate Database: Abd al Maqsut Muhammad Sagim Mazruh
publisher=Miami Herald
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 15 2008
accessdate=2008-06-16
quote=