Ismael Ali Faraj Ali Bakush

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Ismael Ali Faraj Ali Bakush

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date_of_birth = Birth date|1968|07|01
place_of_birth = Al-Khumas, Libya
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detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 708
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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Ismael Ali Faraj Ali Bakush is a citizen of Libyais 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 708.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts report he was born on July 1 1968, in
Al-Khumas, Libya.

Identity

Captive 708 was identified inconsistently on official Department of Defense documents:
*Captive 708 was identified as Ismael Ali Faraj Ali Bakush on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 18 September 2004, on the Summary of Evidence memos prepared for his first and second Administrative Review Board hearings, on 27 July 2005 and 1 May 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/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_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]
*Captive 708 was identified as Ismael Ali Farag Al Bakush on the second official list of captives' names, published on May 15 2006.
*Captive 708 was identified as Ismail Alkhemisi when the Department of Defense seized his privileged attorney-client documents in June 2006.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=2008-09-28 mirror] ]

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

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 Ismael Ali Faraj Ali Bakush'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal, on
18 September 2004.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000500-000599.pdf#75
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal - Ali Bakush, Ismael Ali Faraj
date=18 September 2004
author=OARDEC
pages=page 75
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-02-08] The memo listed the following allegations against him::

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