Said Ali Abdullah Al Farha Al Ghamidi

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Saeed Ali Al-Farha Al-Ghamdi

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place_of_birth = Bahir, Saudi Arabia
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id_number = 341
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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status = Repatriated on December 14 2006.
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Saeed Ali Al-Farha Al-Ghamdi 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 is 341.The Department of Defense reports that he was born on November 5 1979, in Bahir, Saudi Arabia.

Identity

Captive 341 was identified inconsistently on official Department of Defense documents:
*Captive 341 was identified as Said Ali Abdullah Al Farha Al Ghamidi on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, and the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his second annual Administrative Review Board, on 9 November 2004 and 11 April 2006.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000300-000399.pdf#79
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal - Al Ghamidi, Said Ali Abdullah Al Farha
date=9 November 2004
author=OARDEC
pages=page 79
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-05-07] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_499-598.pdf#29
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Ghamidi, Said Ali Abdallah Al Farha
date=11 April 2006
pages=pages 29-30
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-05-08]
*Captive 341 was identified as Said Ali Al Farha on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his first annual Administrative Review Board, on 24 June 2005, and on the first two official lists of captives' name, published in the Spring of 2006.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] 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/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000394-000494.pdf#10
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Farha, Said Ali
date=24 June 2005
pages=pages 10-11
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-05-08]
*Captive 341 was identified as Seed Farha on a list of captives who had habeas corpus petitions submitted on their behalf.cite news
url=http://www.pegc.us/archive/In_re_Gitmo/gov_mot_to_dismiss_20070419.pdf
title=Exhibit B: List Of Enemy Combatant Detainees With Pending Habeas Corpus Petitions Who Have Been Released From United States Custody
page=
pages=
publisher=United States Department of Justice
author=
date=April 17 2007
accessdate=2008-05-08
quote=]
*Captive 341 was identified as Said Ali Al Ghamidi Al Farha on four official lists of captives's 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_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]

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 Said Ali Abdullah Al Farha Al Ghamidi'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal, on
9 November 2004.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000300-000399.pdf#79
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal - Al Ghamidi, Said Ali Abdullah Al Farha
date=9 November 2004
author=OARDEC
pages=page 79
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-05-07] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

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Transcript

There is no record that Said Ali Abdullah Al Farha Al Ghamidiparticipated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

Habeas corpus

A writ of habeas corpus was submitted on his behalf.Captive 341 was identified as "Seed Farha". It was heard before US District Court Judge Reggie Walton, and was amalgamated with other habeas cases into Mohammon v. Bush 05-CV-2386.

The Department of Defense published the unclassified documents generated through the Combatant Status Review Tribunals of 179 captives who had habeas petitions submitted on their behalf.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] But they did not publish this one.

Administrative Review Board hearings

Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings.cite news
url=http://www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil/storyarchive/2007/07octstories/102907-2-oardec.html
title=OARDEC provides recommendations to Deputy Secretary of Defense
publisher=JTF Guantanamo Public Affairs
author=Army Sgt. Sarah Stannard
date=October 29 2007
accessdate=2008-03-26
quote=] The Administrative Review Boards weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".

They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat -- or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free.

First annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Said Ali Al Farha'Sfirst annual Administrative Review Board, on
24 June 2005.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000394-000494.pdf#10
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Farha, Said Ali
date=24 June 2005
pages=pages 10-11
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-05-08] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

econd annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Said Ali Abdallah Al Farha Al Ghamidisecond annual Administrative Review Board, on
11 April 2006.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_499-598.pdf#29
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Ghamidi, Said Ali Abdallah Al Farha
date=11 April 2006
pages=pages 29-30
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-05-08] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

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_266-358.pdf#60
title=Administrative Review Board assessment and recommendation ICO ISN 341
date=9 August 2006
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-05-08
pages=page 60] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Decision_memos_266-358.pdf#61
title=Classified Record of Proceedings and basis of Administrative Review Board recommendation for ISN 341
date=19 April 2006
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-05-08
pages=pages 61-67] The Board's recommendation was unanimousThe Board's recommendation was redacted.England authorized his transfer on 14 August 2006.

One of the unredacted paragraphs in the decision memos stated:quotation
All of the board members reviewed and considered the associated SCI material for this case.The board members consider the SCI material both relevant and significant.The SCI information is being forwarded separately via JWICS for review by the Director, OARDEC.

Repatriation

According to The Saudi Repatriates Report Al Ghamdi 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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