Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi

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Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi is a citizen of Yemen, currently held without charges in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 30. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate he was born in 1972, in Ta'izz, Yemen.

As of October 7, 2010, he has been held at Guantanamo for eight years nine months.

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

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Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a 3 x 5 meter trailer. The captive sat with his hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor. Three chairs were reserved for members of the press, but only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were observed.

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 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.

Summary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Ahmed Umar Abdullah Al Hikimi's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on October 6, 2004. The memo listed the following allegations against him:

Allegations

a. The detainee is associated with al Qaida and the Taliban:

1. The detainee's name along with other personal property information was found on a list recovered during raids against al Qaida associated safe houses.
2. The detainee was identified as an al Qaida associate.
3. The detainee fought on the front lines with the Taliban against the Northern Alliance (prior to 2001).
4. The detainee was a driver on the Taliban front lines, for some time during the period of late 1999 through early 2000.

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

1. The detainee was in Tora Bora and left the region with 30 other suspected al Qaida members.
2. The detainee was captured while trying to cross into Pakistan from Afghanistan on 15 December 2001, with 30 other suspected al Qaida members.

Habeas petition

Captive 30 had a habeas corpus petition published on his behalf. But, although the Department of Defense published documents from the CSR Tribunals of 179 captives, they did not publish any of his habeas documents.

On 16 August 2008 Zachary Katznelson filed a "NOTICE OF AUTHORIZATION" in Mohammed Omar v. George W. Bush Civil Action No. 05-2386 (RBW) on behalf of Mohammed Omar.

Administrative Review Board hearings

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Hearing room where Guantanamo captive's annual Administrative Review Board hearings convened for captives whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal had already determined they were an "enemy combatant".

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, 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 Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi's first annual Administrative Review Board, on 9 September 2005. The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention. The four page memo listed thirty "primary factors favor[ing] continued detention" and five "primary factors favor[ing] release or transfer". One of the allegations he faced was that he was one of the "dirty thirty": "The detainee was seen in Tora Bora and is a suspected member of Usama Bin Ladin's 'dirty thirty'. Several of these individuals are thought to have been bodyguards for Bin Laden."

Second annual Administrative Review Board

A four page Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi's second annual Administrative Review Board, on May 13, 2006. The memo listed thirty "primary factors favor[ing] continued detention" and seven "primary factors favor[ing] release or transfer".

Third annual Administrative Review Board

A three page Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi's third annual Administrative Review Board, on May 27, 2007. The memo listed thirteen "primary factors favor[ing] continued detention" and five "primary factors favor[ing] release or transfer".

External links

• Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part One: The “Dirty Thirty” Andy Worthington, September 15, 2010

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