Anwar al-Noor

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Anwar Hamdan Muhammed Al-Noor

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date_of_birth = Birth date|1977|01|02
place_of_birth = Toraif, Saudi Arabia
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detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 226
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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status = repatriated
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Anwar Hamdan Muhammed Al-Noor (ArB|انور حمدان محمد النور) is a citizen of Saudi Arabia 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 was 226.The Department of Defense reports that he was born on January 2 1977, in Toraif, Saudi Arabia.

Identity

Captive 226 was identified inconsistently on official Department of Defense documents:
*Captive 226 was identified as Anwar Hamdan Muhammed Al Nur on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 16 November 2004, and on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his first and second annual Administrative Review Boards, on 11 October 2005 and 7 June 2006.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000201-000299.pdf#47
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Al Nur, Anwar Hamdan Muhammed
date=16 November 2004
pages=pages 47-48
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-10] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000197-000294.pdf#70
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Nur, Anwar Hamdan Muhammed
date=11 October 2005
pages=pages 70-72
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-11] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_299-398.pdf#49
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Nur, Anwar Hamdam Muhammad
date=7 June 2006
pages=pages 49-51
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-11]
*Captive 226 was identified as Anwar Al Nur on the official lists of captives' names.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/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] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_1_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf
title=Index to Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round One
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=August 9 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_2_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf
title=Index of Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round Two
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_ARB_Round_2_Decision_Memos.pdf Index
title=Index of Transfer and Release Decision for Guantanamo Detainees from ARB Round Two
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=August 10 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29]
*Captive 226 was identified as Anwar Hamdan Muhammed Al-Nur on a package of documents published in response to his habeas corpus petition on 24 May 2006.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/publicly_filed_CSRT_records_1344-1475.pdf#111
title=Anwar Hamdan Muhammed Al-Nur v. George W. Bush
date=24 May 2006
pages=pages 111-132
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-11]
*Captive 226 was identified as Anwar Handan Al Shimmiri on other habeas corpus related documents.cite web
url=http://www.pegc.us/archive/OK_v_Bush/govt_resp_to_GK_20060815.pdf
title=Respondents' response to Court's August 7, 2006 order
date=August 15 2006
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-06-23 [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pegc.us%2Farchive%2FOK_v_Bush%2Fgovt_resp_to_GK_20060815.pdf&date=2008-08-18 mirror] ] cite web
url=http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/district-of-columbia/dcdce/1:2008mc00442/131990/139/0.pdf
title=Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation: Doc 139 -- Civil Action No. 05-CV-2384 (RWR) STATUS REPORT REGARDING SAID V. BUSH
publisher=United States Department of Justice
author=
date=2008-07-18
accessdate=2008-08-18
quote= ]

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.

ummary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Anwar Hamdan Muhammed Al Nur'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal, on
16 November 2004.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000201-000299.pdf#47
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Al Nur, Anwar Hamdan Muhammed
date=16 November 2004
pages=pages 47-48
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-10] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

:"'a. The detainee is a member of al Qaida and supported al Qaida and the Taliban in military operations against the United States and its coalition partners::#During November 2001, the detaiene traveled from Saudi Arabia through Jordan, Syria, and Iran (Tehran and Mashhad) to Herat, Afghanistan, then on Kandahar and Kabul.:#The detainee's name was found on a file in a computer used by suspected al Qaida members listing seventy-eight associates incarcerated in Pakistan.:#The detainee's name and other information was found in a 02 September 2002 "chat session" found on the hard drive of a computer confiscated from members of the suspected al Qaida cell involved in the October 2002 attack on U.S. Marines on Faylaka Island.:#The detainee's name, hometown, and mobile phone number was included in a list of eighty-four Mujahidin fighters captured as they crossed the border into sic Nangarhar Province by the Pakistani Government.:#The detainee's name, and other personal information, was found on a hard drive that was associated with Khalid Shaykh Mohammad sic, a known high-level al Qaida operative, and which was seized during joint raids with the Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence Directorate on 01 March 2003, in Pakistan.:#The detainee worked for the NGO al Wafa in Afghanistan.:#The al Wafa Humanitarian Organization has been designated as an organization that assists in, sponsors, or provides financial, material, or technological support for, or financial or other services to, or in support of, acts of terrorism.:#The detainee's name was found on a list of al Qaida Mujahidin and the contents of his "trust" account was found on files recovered from various computer media seized during raids on an sic al Qaida safehouses, on 01 March 2003 and Karachi on 11 September 2002.:#The detainee, along with other Arabs he was traveling with, was captured by the Pakistani Military in November 2001 while trying to cross into Pakistan from Afghanistan.

Habeas corpus

A writ of habeas corpus, Anwar Hamdan Muhammed Al-Nur v. George W. Bush, was submitted on Anwar Hamdan Muhammed Al-Nur's behalf.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/publicly_filed_CSRT_records_1344-1475.pdf#111
title=Anwar Hamdan Muhammed Al-Nur v. George W. Bush
date=24 May 2006
pages=pages 111-132
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-11] In response, on 24 May 2006,the Department of Defense released 22pages of unclassified documents related to his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

His enemy combatant status was confirmed, in his absence, by
Tribunal panel 21 on December 3 2004.

A Legal Advisor drafted a Legal Sufficiency Review on
18 January 2005, stating they thought his Tribunal's conduct was "legally sufficient".

His Personal Representative reported to the Tribunal,from a Detainee election form that he met with the captive on
26 November 2004 for seventeen minutes. The Detainee election form recorded: :

Board recommendations

In early September 2007 the Department of Defense released two heavily redacted memos, from his Board, to Gordon England, the Designated Civilian Official.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Decision_memos_183-265.pdf#1
title=Administrative Review Board assessment and recommendation ICO ISN 226
date=August 14 2006
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-11
pages=page 1] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Decision_memos_183-265.pdf#2
title=Classified Record of Proceedings and basis of Administrative Review Board recommendation for ISN 226
date=20 June 2006
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-11
pages=pages 2-10] The Board's recommendation was unanimousThe Board's recommendation was redacted.England authorized his transfer on August 14 2006.

His Board's memo stated:quotation
The ARB has complied with the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005. In making a determination of statusor disposition of this detainee, the ARB has assessed, to the extent practicable, whether any statementderived from or relating to this detainee was obtained as a result of coercion; and the probative value,in any, of any such statement. In addition, the ARB considered any new evidence that became availablerelating to the enemy combatant status of this detainee.

Repatriation

According to The Saudi Repatriates Report Al Noor was one of sixteen men repatriated on December 14 2006.cite web
url=http://www.fotofest.org/guantanamo/SaudiReport.pdf
title=The Saudi Repatriates Report
author=Anant Raut, Jill M. Friedman
date=March 19 2007
accessdate=April 21
accessyear=2007]

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