Amran Baqur Mohammed Hawsawi

Amran Baqur Mohammed Hawsawi is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detaineesFOIrelease15May2006.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] His detainee ID number is 368.American intelligence analysts estimate that Hawsawi was born in 1975, in Ta'if, Saudi Arabia.

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 Tribunal. 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.

To comply with a Freedom of Information Act request, during the winter and spring of 2005, the Department of Defense released 507 memoranda. Those 507 memoranda each contained the allegations against a single detainee, prepared for their Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The detainee's name and ID numbers were redacted from all but one of the memoranda. However 169 of the memoranda had the detainee's ID hand-written on the top right hand of the first page corner. When the Department of Defense complied with a court order, and released official lists of the detainee's names and ID numbers it was possible to identify who those 169 were written about. Amran Baqur Mohammed Hawsawi was one of those 169 detainees. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_mar05.pdf#195 Summary of Evidence memo (.pdf)] prepared for Amran Baqur Mohammed Hawsawi's "Combatant Status Review Tribunal" - September 30 2004 - page 195]

Allegations

:""'a. The detainee is part of or supported the Taliban or al Qaida::#"The detainee is a ###### ###### ###### ###### who traveled to Afghanistan via Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; to Damascus, Syria; to Tehran, Iran; to Mashhad sic, Iran; and finally entered Afghanistan near Tayyebat, Iran.:#"The detainee decided to travel to an Afghanistan refugee camp sometime in September 2001 after hearing of the war in that area.:#"The detainee was identified to be in Kabul, Afghanistan, training at the al-Farouq camp.:#"The detainee was in the camp when the United States bombardment began and he sustained shrapnel injuries.:#"The detainee left his passport at the hospital and was tekn into custody by the Pakistani government.

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