Nag Mohammed

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Nag Mohammed is a citizen of China, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1] His detainee ID number is 102. American intelligence analysts estimate Nag Mohammed was born on May 4, 1975, in Khulga, China.

[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 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.

To comply with a Freedom of Information Act request, during the winter and spring of 2005, the Department of Defense released 507 memoranda. Those 507 memoranda each contained the allegations against a single detainee, prepared for their Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The detainee's name and ID numbers were redacted from all but one of the memoranda. However 169 of the memoranda had the detainee's ID hand-written on the top right hand of the first page corner. When the Department of Defense complied with a court order, and released official lists of the detainee's names and ID numbers it was possible to identify who those 169 were written about. Nag Mohammed was one of those 169 detainees.^[2]

[edit] Allegations

a. The detainee supported the Taliban against the United States and its coalition partners:

1. In late September 2000, the detainee traveled from Turkistan, through Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan, to Kabul, Afghanistan for an Eastern Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) meeting.
2. The detainee was a member of the ETIM.
3. ETIM is listed on the Secretary of State's Terrorist Exclusion list.
4. The detainee was closely associated with ####### ###### ###### ###### ######
5. ###### ###### ###### is the leader of the ETIM.
6. The detainee was given instruction on an AK-47 at the Kartisi, Afghanistan guesthouse.
7. The detainee was arrested near Mazar-e-Sharif ^[sic], Afghanistan by Northern Alliance troops in November 2001.
8. The detainee participated in the Mazar-e-Sharif ^[sic] prison uprising.

[edit] References

1. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
2. ^ Summary of Evidence memo (.pdf) prepared for Nag Mohammed's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - November 5, 2004 - page 174