Abdul Rahman Owaid Mohammad Al Juaid

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Abdul Rahman Owaid Mohammad Al Juaid is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.^[1] Al Juaid's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 179. The Department of Defense reports that Al Juaid was born on November 7, 1980, in Ta'if, Saudi Arabia.

1 Combatant Status Review Tribunal
- 1.1 allegations
- 1.2 testimony
2 References

[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a small trailer, the same width, but shorter, than a mobile home. The Tribunal's President sat in the big chair. The detainee sat with their hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor in the white, plastic garden chair. A one way mirror behind the Tribunal President allowed observers to observe clandestinely. In theory the open sessions of the Tribunals were open to the press. Three chairs were reserved for them. In practice the Tribunal only intermittently told the press that Tribunals were being held. And when they did they kept the detainee's identities secret. In practice almost all Tribunals went unobserved.

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 a 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 administration's definition of an enemy combatant.

Al Juaid chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.^[2]

[edit] allegations

The allegations Al Juaid faced during his Tribunal were:

a. The detainee is associated with Al Qaida.

One of the detainee's known aliases was on a list of captured Al Qaida members discovered on a computer hard drive associated with a senior Al Qaida member.
The detainee traveled from Saudi Arabia through Pakistan, arriving in Kandahar, Afghanistan during July/August 2001.
The detainee provided monetary support to the Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, a non-governmental organization.
The Al Haramain Islamic Foundation is on a terrorism blacklist because of "financial, material and logistical support" they provide to the Al Qaida network and other terrorist organizations.
After the fallof Kabul and Jalalabad, the detainee fled Afghanistan for Pakistan where he was arrested by the Pakistani police and eventually turned over to U.S. forces.