Walid Mohammad Haj Mohammad Ali

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Walid Mohammad Haj Mohammad Ali is a citizen of Sudan, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1] His Guantanamo detainee ID is 81. Ali was born on June 6, 1974, in Donkhallah, Sudan.

1 Combatant Status Review Tribunal
2 Administrative Review Board hearing
- 2.1 The following primary factors favor continued detention:
- 2.2 The following primary factors favor release or transfer:
3 References

[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Combatant Status Review Tribunal notice read to a Guantanamo captive. During the period July 2004 through March 2005 a Combatant Status Review Tribunal was convened to make a determination whether they had been correctly classified as an "enemy combatant". Participation was optional. The Department of Defense reports that 317 of the 558 captives who remained in Guantanamo, in military custody, attended their Tribunals.

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.

There is no record that Jahdari chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

[edit] Administrative Review Board hearing

Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings. The Administrative Review Boards weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".

They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat -- or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free.

The factors for and against continuing to detain Jahdari were among the 120 that the Department of Defense released on March 3, 2006.^[2]

[edit] The following primary factors favor continued detention:

a. Commitment

The detainee traveled to Konduz, Afghanistan and then rode in a truck with other Taliban fighters to a bunker area on the second line, where he served as a guard for several months.
The detainee also spent time in the North, fighting on the front line.
The detainee participated in the Mazar-E-Sharif ^[sic] prison riot at the Al Janki ^[sic] Castle.

b. Training

The detainee received training on the Kalishnikov rifle.

c. Connection/Association

While in Quetta, Pakistan, the detainee stayed 25 to 30 days in a Taliban guesthouse that was also used by recovering, injured Taliban fighters.
The detainee was identified as a Sudanese who spent a long time in Afghanistan.
The detainee was a special friend to a known Taliban leader.
This Taliban leader was in charge of all the Arabs on the front lines in the northern area of Afghanistan near Konduz and Marzar e Sharif.
This Taliban leader reported directly to an al Qaeda commander.
The al Qaida commander was in charge of al Qaida fighters in the Afghani northern front.

d. Intent

The detainee traveled from Saudi Arabia, through Pakistan, then into Afghanistan.
The detainee said that if he were in a combat situation, he would attack Americans to defend his country and/or family and he would fight again for the sake of his religion or his family.

[edit] The following primary factors favor release or transfer:

The detainee stated, “I did not fight against the United States or her allies.”
The detainee stated, “I did not see an American or fight against an American or any American allies.”
The detainee said that his intention was to go to Pakistan for four months to teach religion in accordance with a Da’wa.
The detainee said that he was going to the Raywan mosque in Lahore Pakistan to teach.