Rashid Abd Al Muslih Qaid Al Qa’id

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Rashid Abd Al Muslih Qaid Al Qa’id is a citizen of Saudi Arabia who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.^[1] Al Qa'id's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 344.^[2] The US Department of Defense reports that Al Qa'id was born on December 20, 1959 Sakahka]][[, Saudi Arabia.

1 Identity
2 Combatant Status Review Tribunal
- 2.1 allegations
3 Transfer to Saudi Arabia
4 References

[edit] Identity

The official documents from the US Department of Defense, and from the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, Washington DC transliterate Al Qaid's name differntly:

His name was transliterated as Rashid Abd Al Muslih Qaid Al Qa’id on the official lists of names released by the US Department of Defense.^[2]
His name was transliterated as Rashed Abdulmusleh Qaid Al-Qaid on the press releases from Saudi officials, when he was repatriated on February 21, 2007.^[3]

[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.

Al Qa’id agreed to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.^[1]

[edit] allegations

The allegations against Al Qa'id were:

a. The detainee is associated with Al Qaida.

On September 2001, the detainee traveled from his home in Saudi Arabia via Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Iran; finally arriving in Afghanistan on 3 October 2001.
The detainee traveled with two associates from Saudi Arabia.
The detainee and both of his traveling companions, Al Nur and Wasim traveled to carry out charity work in conjunction with a Saudi charity, al-ighatha al-khaira.
Al Ighatha is a large Saudi NGO with field offices worldwide, many of which is staffed by or support terrorists or mujahidin. The NGO is link to Al Qaida and other extremist NGO’s.
Al Nur was on a list of al Qaida Mujahidin and the al Qaida trust accounts recovered from various computer media seized during raids against al Qaida associated safehouses.
The Saudi government designated Al Nur as a priority target and lists him on the “watch and arrest list” for travel to Afghanistan.
The Saudi government designated the detainee as a priority target and put him on a watch and arrest order.
The detainee was captured by Pakistani forces when he attempted to cross the border from Afghanistan.