Mohammed Kamin

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Mohammed Kamin is a citizen of Afghanistan held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1] Kamin's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 1045. American intelligence analysts estimate Kamin was borin in 1978. American intelligence analysts named a place of birth for all but a dozen of the detainees. Kamin is one of the dozen whose place of birth was left unnamed.

Contents 1 Combatant Status Review Tribunal 1.1 Allegations 1.2 Testimony 2 References

[edit] 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 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.

[edit] Allegations

During the winter and spring of 2005 the Department of Defense complied with a Freedom of Information Act request, and released five files that contained 507 memoranda which each summarized the allegations against a single detainee. These memos, entitled "Summary of Evidence" were prepared for the detainee's Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The detainee's names and ID numbers were redacted from all but one of these memos, when they were first released in 2005. But some of them contain notations in pen. 169 of the memos bear a hand-written notation specifying the detainee's ID number. One of the memos had a notation specifying Kamin's detainee ID.^[2] The allegations Kamin would have faced, during his Tribunal, were:

a. The detainee is associated with al Qaida:

1. The detainee was trained by, worked for and was paid by a terrorist organization identified in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Terrorist Organization Reference Guide.
2. The detainee is directly associated with a leader for Jaish- E- Mohammed [sic].
3. The Jaish- E- Mohammed has been identified as a terrorist organization.

b. The detainee participated in military operations against the United States and its coalition partners.

1. The detainee received military training in Mirali, Pakistan, which included learning to fire AK-47's [sic], pistols, rockets, and machine guns.
2. The detainee intended to use his training to ambush American forces.
3. The detainee was taught to build mines.
4. The detainee stored mines at his home.
5. The detainee was trained in Quralemsha, Pakistan in the use, operation and detonation of remote control mines.
6. The detainee purchased and sold weapons in Afghanistan.
7. The detainee was in possession of a GPS device with stored grid points of key locations along the Afghan/Pakistan border.
8. The detainee collected grid coordinates for the purpose of using them in attacks against runways, during takeoffs and landings of American and coalition planes.
9. The detainee received compensation from a terrorist organization identified in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Terrorist Organization Reference Guide, for his participation in attacks carried out against American and coalition forces.
10. The detainee was captured on or about 4 May 2003, in Khowst [sic], Afghanistan.

[edit] Testimony

Kamin chose not to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

[edit] References

1. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
2. ^ Summary of Evidence (.pdf) prepared for Mohammed Kamin's Combatant Status Review Tribunals - November 17, 2004 - page 77