Muhammad Abd Allah Mansur Al Futuri

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Muhammad Abd Allah Mansur Al Futuri is a citizen of Libya, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.<^[1] Al Futuri's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 194. The Department of Defense reports that detainee 194 was born on December 1, 1968, in Al Rimi, Libya.^[1]

[edit] Identity

The Department of Defense released two official lists of names of Guantanamo detainees. On the list of all 558 detainees who went through a Combatant Status Review Tribunal, released on April 20, 2006, his name is listed as Muhammad Abd Allah Mansur Al Futuri.^[2] On the list of all 759 detainees who had ever been held in military custody in Guantanamo, released 25 days later on May 15, 2006, his name was listed as Muhammad Abdallah Mansur Al Rimi.^[1]

[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 his 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.

[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 Al Futuri's detainee ID.^[3] The allegations Al Futuri faced were:

a. The detainee is associated with al Qaida:

1. The detainee was convinced to go to Afghanistan and fight the non-believers in an attempt to establish an Islamic state.
2. The detainee was smuggled from Libya to Egypt with 1,000 United States dollars in his personal possession, and then flew on to Saudi Arabia, then to Karachi, Pakistan and then to Peshawar, Pakistan, staying one year, and then drove to Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
3. The detainee stated he flew from Yemen to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, then to Mecca, Saudi Arabia and back to Jeddah, and then he flew to Karachi, Pakistan, and then to Peshawar, Pakistan, and then drove to Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
4. The detainee stated he had about 2,700 United States dollars, 1,500 Saudi Arabian Riyals, and an unknown amount of Pakistani money when he left Yemen.
5. The detainee stated that he had originally lied about his true name and nationality (He is from Libya not Yemen).
6. The detainee reportedly had been in Afghanistan since the Jihad.
7. The detainee reportedly was seen just before 11 September 2001 in Jalalabad, Afghanistan in the "Arab Complex".
8. The detainee was in possession of a wristwatch, the type used in improvised explosive device bombings linked to al Qaida and radical Islamic terrorists.
9. The detainee stated that he was a member of the Al-Jamia'a Al Tablighi ^[sic] for two years while he was in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
10. The detainee worked a few missions, which were 40 days long, for Al-Jamia'a Al Tablighi ^[sic] throughout the Afghanistan and Pakistan region.
11. The detainee traveled and worked as a paid employee of the Jama'at Al Tablighi ^[sic].
12. Jama'at Al Tablighi, a Pakistan based Islamic missionary organization is being used as a cover to mask travel and activities of terrorists including members of al Qaida.
13. The detainee reportedly is a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG).
14. The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, a listed terrorist organization with black market contacts, reportedly is used by al Qaida to obtain travel documents.
15. The detainee was arrested in Pakistan with 1,800 U.S. Dollars (USD), 1,500 Saudi Arabian Riyals (SAR), and an unknown amount of Afghan and Pakistan money in his possession.
16. The detainee stated the money, which was captured during his arrest, all came from a source in Europe.

[edit] Testimony

Al Futuri chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.^[4]

[edit] Release

The Seattle Post Intelligencer reported that Al Rimi was released on December 18, 2006.^[5]

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b c} list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
2. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, April 20, 2006
3. ^ Summary of Evidence memo (.pdf) prepared for Muhammad Abd Allah Mansur Al Futuri's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - September 29, 2004 - page 244
4. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Muhammad Abd Allah Mansur Al Futuri's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 29-34
5. ^ 6 Yemenis released from Guantanamo, Seattle Post Intelligencer, December 18, 2006