Mohammed Mubarek Salah Al Qurbi

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Mohammed Mubarek Salah Al Qurbi is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.^[1] Al Qurbi's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 342. The Department of Defense reports that Al Qurbi was born on July 30, 1975, in Khamees Musheet, Saudi Arabia.

1 Combatant Status Review Tribunal
- 1.1 allegations
- 1.2 testimony
2 Administrative Review Board hearing
3 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 Qurbi chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.^[2]

[edit] allegations

The allegations Al Qurbi faced during his Tribunal were:

The detainee traveled extensively during the period December 2000 through November 2001, Multiple visits to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, a one-week stop in Syria and a five-month stay in Malaysia are recorded on the passport.
An Al Qaida operative is known to have falsified passports using Malaysian visa stamps in order to eliminate evidence of travel in Afghanistan and Pakistan,
The detainee was a member of Al Qaida and a member of al-Nashri s security element.
The detainee was observed on board a Taliban airplane carrying fighters down towards Northern Afghanistan,
The detainee was identified as an Al Qaida member by a farmer guard at Usama Bin Laden's complex at the Kandahar, Afghanistan Airport,
The detainee served an the manager of the Al Qaida frontline's guesthouse in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Pakistani police in Quetta arrested the detainee on 25 November 2001.

[edit] testimony

[edit] Administrative Review Board hearing

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. 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.

Al Qurbi chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.^[3]