Sharifullah

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Sharifullah is a citizen of Afghanistan held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1] Sharifullah's detainee ID number 944. Intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1980 in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

[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.

Sharifullah chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.^[2]

[edit] allegations

The allegations against Sharifullah were:^[2]

a. -- The general summary of the allegations that establish an association with terrorism were missing from the transcript. --

1. The detainee trained at Grand Talimi Military School.
2. While at the Grand Talimi Military School, the detainee was trained on the Kalashnikov, low crawl and the riot control with the use of shields.
3. The detainee also trained for 10 days at military camp in Zahar Khel Village.
4. At this camp, the Detainee was trained in the use of personal weapons, the disassembly of land mines and the production of bombs from parts of the disassembled land mines.
5. The detainee stayed at the Shamshato Refugee Camp in Pakistan.
6. Hezb-E-Islam/Gulbuddin (HIG) members recruited young and impressionable radical men from the Shamshato Refugee camp to train at camps focusing on advanced training including remote controlled Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and electronics.
7. When the detainee was arrested, a search revealed the storage of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).

[edit] References

1. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
2. ^ ^{a b} Summarized transcripts (.pdf) from Sharifullah's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 79-97