Lakhdar Boumediene

Lakhdar Boumediene is a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina held in military custody in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. [http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 10005.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts report he was born on April 27 1966, in Ain Soltgane Saeda, Algeria.

Background

In early October 2001, less than a month after al Qaeda's attack on September 11, 2001, American intelligence analysts in the Embassy became concerned that an increase in chatter was a clue that al Qaeda was planning an attack on their embassy.At their request Bosnia arrested Bensayah Belkacem, the man they believed had made dozens of phone calls to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and five acquaintances of his.All six men were residents of Bosnia, who were born in Algeria. Five of the men were Bosnian citizens.

In January 2002, the Supreme Court of Bosnia ruled that there was no evidence to hold the six men, ordered the charges dropped and the men released.American forces, including troops who were part of a 3,000 man American peace-keeping contingent in Bosnia were waiting for the six men upon their release from Bosnia custody, and transported them to Guantanamo.

Identity

Captive 10005 is named inconsistently on various official Department of Defense documents.

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 Lakhdar Boumediene'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal, on 21 September 2004.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000700-000783.pdf#79
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal - Boumediene, Lakhdar
date=21 September 2004
author=OARDEC
pages=page 79
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-11-29] The memo listed the following allegations against him: :

econd annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Lakhdar Boumediene's second annualAdministrative Review Board, on 20 October 2006.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_900-1009.pdf#105
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Boumediene, Lakhdar
date=20 October 2006
author=OARDEC
pages=pages 105-107
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-11-29] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

The following primary factors favor continued detention:

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The following primary factors favor release or transfer:

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