Abu Sufian bin Qumu

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda Bin Qumu

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date_of_birth = Birth date|1959|06|26
place_of_birth = Darna, Libya
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detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 557
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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status = Repatriated to Libyan custody
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Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda Bin Qumuis a citizen of Libya 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 557.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts report he was born on June 26 1959, in Darna, Libya.

Background

According to documents released by the United States Department of Defensecite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000400-000499.pdf#76
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal - Bin Qumu, Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda
date=27 September 2004
author=OARDEC
pages=76-77
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-11-08] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000495-000594.pdf#8
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of
date=28 June 2005
author=OARDEC
pages=8-10
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-11-06] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_599-699.pdf#46
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of
date=19 May 2006
author=OARDEC
pages=46-48
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-11-06] :
*Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda Bin Qumu served for twelve years in the Libyan Army, from 1979 to 1990, rising to the rank of private first class.
*The documents assert that during his military service he was frequently disciplined for drug and alcohol offenses, absences without leave, and attempted rape.
*The documents assert that following his military service he received a four year sentence for drug dealing, but that escaped to Sudan, partway through his sentence, in 1992.
*The documents assert that a foreign government service says that he was a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.
*The documents assert that he was a truck driver for the Wadi al Aqiq Company, a company owned by Usama bin Laden, who was then based in Sudan.
*The documents assert that he worked for al Wafa, a charity that has been accused of links to terrorist organizations, for a few months in late 2001. While working for al Wafa he stands accused of serving as an accountant, delivering food aid, and delivering the tools to dig wells.

The documents state he was captured in late 2001.

The documents include a Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal in 2004, and two Summary of Evidence memos prepared for his first and second annual Administrative Review Board hearings in 2005 and 2006.

There is no record that he chose to participate in his CSR Tribunal and Review Board hearings.There is no record among the records the DoD released in September 2007 that Gordon England the Designated Civilian Official authorized to make the final decision to release or repatriate Guantanamo captives has authorized his release.Nevertheless he was reported to have been released in October 2007.cite news
url=http://media.www.spectatornews.com/media/storage/paper218/news/2007/10/01/NationWorldNews/Pentagon.Frees.Eight.Guantanamo.Detainees-3001627.shtml
title=Pentagon frees eight Guantanamo detainees: The U.S. Supreme Court opens a new term with a detainee-rights issue
page=
pages=
publisher=The Spectator
author=
date=1 October 2007
accessdate=2008-04-16
quote=]

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

] Three chairs were reserved for members of the press, but only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were observed.cite web
url=http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=3902
title=Annual Administrative Review Boards for Enemy Combatants Held at Guantanamo Attributable to Senior Defense Officials
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=March 6 2007
accessdate=2007-09-22] ]

Initially the Bush Presidency 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 Presidency's definition of an enemy combatant.

ummary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda Bin Qumu'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal, on 27 September 2004.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000400-000499.pdf#76
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal - Bin Qumu, Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda
date=27 September 2004
author=OARDEC
pages=76-77
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-11-08] The memo listed the following allegations against him: :

Transcript

There is no record thatAbu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda Bin Qumu chose to participate in his first annual Administrative Review Board hearing.

econd annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda Bin Qumu'ssecond annualAdministrative Review Board, on 19 May 2006.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_599-699.pdf#46
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Bin Qumu, Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda
date=19 May 2006
author=OARDEC
pages=46-48
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-11-06] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

The following primary factors favor continued detention:

:

The following primary factors favor release or transfer:

Transcript

There is no record thatAbu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda Bin Qumu chose to participate in his second annual Administrative Review Board hearing.

Repatriation

Andy Worthington, the author of , wrote on October 5 2007 that Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda Bin Qumu was repatriated in the fall of 2007.cite news
url=http://www.counterpunch.org/worthington10052007.html
title=Eight More Wrongly Imprisoned Men are Quietly Released: The Anonymous Victims of Guantánamo
publisher=Counterpunch
author=Andy Worthington
date=October 5, 2007
accessdate=2007-11-08] Speculating as to why he may have changed his mind about repatriation Worthington wrote: quotation|"Perhaps, as one of Guantánamo's truly lost men, he has decided that, if he is to spend the rest of his life in prison for no apparent reason, he would rather be in Libya, where his wife and his family might be able to see him, than in Guantánamo, where, like every other detainee, he was more isolated from his relatives than even the deadliest convicted mass murderer on the US mainland."

Amnesty International reports that its attempts to find Bin Qumu, following his repatriation, have failed.cite web
url=http://action.amnesty.org.au/hrs/comments/life_after_guantanamo/
title=Life after Guantanamo
publisher=Amnesty International
date=December 18 2007
accessdate=2008-04-16
quote=]

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