Abdul Sattar (Guantanamo detainee 10)
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Abdul Sattar is a citizen of Pakistan, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo detainee ID number is 10. The Department of Defense reports he was born on November 12, 1981, in Bumb, Pakistan Bumb, Pakistan.
[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.
Sattar chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[2]
[edit] Sattar's testimony
Unlike many other detainee transcripts Sattar's transcript does not repeat the allegations Sattar faced in the Summary of Evidence.
Sattar testified he wanted to address one of the points in the allegations -- that he was unaware of any link between the group H.U.M. and Al Qaeda.
Sattar testified he had never even heard of al Qaeda until he was captured.
[edit] References
- ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
- ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdul Sattar's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 68-69
