Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi

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Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi
Born:	1972 (age 35–36) - Ta'iz, Yemen
Detained at:	Guantanamo Bay camp
Alias(s):	Ahmed Umar Abdallah al Hikimi
ID number:	030
Alleged to be a member of:	al-Qaeda

Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1] Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 030. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate he was born in 1972, in Ta'iz, Yemen.

[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a trailer the size of a large RV. The captive sat on a plastic garden chair, with his hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor.^[2][3] Three chairs were reserved for members of the press, but only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were observed.^[4]

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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.

[edit] Summary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Ahmed Umar Abdullah Al Hikimi's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 6 October 2004.^[5][6] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

[edit] Allegations

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

1. The detainee's name along with other personal property informations 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.

[edit] Administrative Review Board hearings

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".^[7]

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.

[edit] 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.^[8] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

[edit] Second annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi's second annual Administrative Review Board, on 13 May 2006.^[9] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

[edit] References

1. ^ OARDEC (May 15, 2006). List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
2. ^ Guantánamo Prisoners Getting Their Day, but Hardly in Court, New York Times, November 11, 2004 - mirror
3. ^ Inside the Guantánamo Bay hearings: Barbarian "Justice" dispensed by KGB-style "military tribunals", Financial Times, December 11, 2004
4. ^ Annual Administrative Review Boards for Enemy Combatants Held at Guantanamo Attributable to Senior Defense Officials. United States Department of Defense (March 6, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-09-22.
5. ^ OARDEC (October 6, 2004). Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- name redacted (released March 2005) page 186. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-11-28.
6. ^ OARDEC (6 October 2004). Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Al Hikimi, Ahmed Umar Abdullah (released September 2007) page 29. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-11-28.
7. ^ Spc Timothy Book. "Review process unprecedented", JTF-GTMO Public Affairs Office, Friday March 10, 2006, pp. pg 1. Retrieved on 2007-10-10. 
8. ^ OARDEC (9 September 2005). Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Hikimi, Ahmed Umar Abdullah pages 28-31. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-11-23.
9. ^ OARDEC (13 May 2006). Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Hikimi, Ahmed Umar Abdullah pages 41-44. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-11-23.