Abdulla Majid Al Naimi Explained

Abdulla Majid Al Naimi
Birth Date:9 March 1982
Birth Place:Manama, Bahrain
Detained At:Guantanamo
Id Number:159
Alias:Abdullah al Noaimi
Abdullah Majed Sayyah Hasan Alnoaimi
Charge:No charge (held in extrajudicial detention)
Status:Repatriated, then arrested, and held without charge on a visit to Saudi Arabia in 2008.
Date Of Arrest:November 2001
Place Of Arrest:Pakistan
Arresting Authority:Pakistani authorities
Date Of Release:5 November 2005
Place Of Release:Bahrain

Abdulla Majid Al Naimi (also transliterated as Abdullah al Noaimi; born March 9, 1982, in Manama, Bahrain) is a Bahraini, formerly held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1]

Arrest

Al Naimi has stated that he was abducted by Pashtun tribesmen in Afghanistan in late 2001, and then handed over to the Pakistani authorities in return for a cash reward. After being moved around for a while he eventually arrived at a prison at Kohat. After several more weeks he was transferred to American custody and flown to Guantanamo Bay.[2]

Inconsistent identification

Abdulla Majid Al Naimi was identified inconsistently on official Department of Defense documents:

Press reports transliterate his name as "Abdullah Al Nuaimi".

Combatant Status Review

Initially the Bush administration asserted they could withhold the protections of the Geneva Conventions from captives in the War on Terror, while critics argued the Conventions obliged the United States to conduct competent tribunals to determine the status of prisoners.[4] Subsequently the Department of Defense instituted Combatant Status Review Tribunals, to determine whether the captives met the new definition of an "enemy combatant".

Detainees do not have the right to a lawyer before the CSRTs or to access the evidence against them. The CSRTs are not bound by the rules of evidence that would apply in court, and the government’s evidence is presumed to be “genuine and accurate.” However, unclassified summaries of relevant evidence may be provided to the detainee and each detainee has an opportunity to present “reasonably available” evidence and witnesses.[5]

From July 2004 through March 2005, a CSRT was convened to make a determination whether each captive had been correctly classified as an "enemy combatant". was among the one-third of prisoners for whom there was no indication they chose to participate in their tribunals.[6]

In the landmark case Boumediene v. Bush, the U.S. Supreme Court found that CSRTs are not an adequate substitute for the constitutional right to challenge one's detention in court, in part because they do not have the power to order detainees released.[7] The Court also found that "there is considerable risk of error in the tribunal’s findings of fact."[8]

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for the tribunal, listing the alleged facts that led to his detainment. His memo accused him of the following:

Witness statements

The documents the Department of Defense released include two statements, both dated November 11, 2004.[9]

One statement was from Mohammed Salman Al-Khalifa, a cousin of Salman Al Khalifa, a member of the Bahrain royal family. It states since Abdullah Al Noaimi was a childhood friend of Salman Al Khalifa he was asked to travel to Pakistan and Afghanistan to look for him, when he went missing, in August 2001.

The other statement is from Mohamad Suleiman Alkaleifa, a childhood friend who testified to his good character, and lack of interest in politics.

If his Board considered these witness statements then it was redacted from their recommendations.

Abdullah Al Noaimi v. George Walker Bush

A writ of habeas corpus was submitted on Abdullah Al Noaimi's behalf.[10] The Department of Defense released a dossier of 24 pages of documents arising from his CSR Tribunal on December 9, 2004.

Administrative Review Board

Detainees whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal labeled them "enemy combatants" were scheduled for annual Administrative Review Board hearings. These hearings were designed to assess the threat a detainee might pose if released or transferred, and whether there were other factors that warranted his continued detention.[11]

Summary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Abdullah Al Noaimi's Administrative Review Board, on July 1, 2005.[12] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

There is no record that Al Noaimi participated in his Board hearing.

Board recommendations

In early September 2007, the Department of Defense released two heavily redacted memos, from his Board, to Gordon J. England, the Designated Civilian Official.[13] [14] The Board's recommendation was unanimous. The Board's recommendation was redacted. England authorized his transfer on October 4, 2005.

Release

Represented by attorney Joshua Colangelo-Bryan,[15] Al-Naimi was one of three Bahraini detainees released and sent back to Bahrain in November 2005.[16]

Bahraini Member of Parliament Mohammed Khalid had called for the Bahrain government to provide financial compensation to the released men.[17]

Comments on the June 10, 2006 suicides

See main article: Guantanamo suicide attempts.

The deaths of three detainees were announced on June 10, 2006. Al Naimi knew the three men, and commented on their deaths on June 25, 2006.[18] Al Naimi said that Mani Al-Utaybi and Ali Abdullah Ahmed were captured while studying in Pakistan. He said that they were interrogated for only a brief time after their arrival in Guantanamo, and their interrogators had told them they were not regarded as a threat, and that they could expect to be released.

The interrogations dealt with them only during the first month of their detention. For more than a year before I left Guantanamo in November 2005, they were left alone. But they were still held in bad conditions in the camp by the guards.

Al Naimi also said that the third dead man, Yasser Talal Al Zahrani, was only 16 when he was captured, and should have been treated as a minor.[18]

He was 21 when he died, barely the legal age in most countries, and was merely 16 when he was picked up four and half years ago. His age shows that he is not even supposed to be taken to a police office; he should have been turned over to the underage [juvenile] authorities.

Saudi arrest

The Gulf Daily News reported that Al Naimi had been arrested in Saudi Arabia in late October 2008.[19] Bahraini Member of Parliament Mohammed Khalid expressed dismay at the arrest of a third Bahraini citizen by Saudi authorities, and said that the Saudis had not offered a formal justification for his arrest.

In late November 2008, another Bahraini in extrajudicial detention in Saudi Arabia, Khalil Janahi, was reported to have been repatriated.[20] [21] Mohammed Janahi described Khalid Janahi's repatriation as a hopeful development for Al Naimi, and two other Bahrainis in extrajudicial detention in Saudi Arabia - Abdulraheem Al Murbati, and Hassan Al Yabis. Al Naimi and the other men remained held by Saudi Arabia in April 2009.[22]

Al Noaimi was eventually released by the Saudis without charge and returned to Bahrain on April 21, 2016.

Pentagon claim he had "returned to the fight"

See main article: Lists of released Guantanamo prisoners who allegedly returned to battle. A 2009 article in the New York Times claimed that a Pentagon report "confirmed" that Al Noaimi had "returned to the fight" and had engaged in terrorist activity after his release from Guantanamo Bay in 2005.[23] [24] They later critiqued their own handling of the information.[25]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006 . OARDEC . OARDEC . May 15, 2006 . . September 29, 2007 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070930184034/http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf . September 30, 2007.
  2. American Gulag: Prisoners' Tales from the War on Terror . Griswold . Eliza . September 2006 . . September 4, 2019 . Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas at UC Davis.
  3. Web site: Exhibit C: List of No Longer Enemy Combant Detainees With Pending Habeas Corpus Petitions Who Have Been Released From United States Custody . 64 . April 17, 2007 . . May 5, 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090327090515/http://www.pegc.us/archive/In_re_Gitmo/gov_mot_to_dismiss_20070419.pdf . March 27, 2009.
  4. News: Q&A: What next for Guantanamo prisoners?. BBC News. January 21, 2002. November 24, 2008. November 23, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20081123204530/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1773140.stm. bot: unknown.
  5. News: Detainees at Guantanamo Bay: Report for Congress . . Jennifer K. . Elsea. July 20, 2005 . November 10, 2007 . PDF.
  6. [OARDEC]
  7. News: Boumediene v. Bush . June 12, 2008 . ... the procedural protections afforded to the detainees in the CSRT hearings ... fall well short of the procedures and adversarial mechanisms that would eliminate the need for habeas corpus review..
  8. News: Boumediene v. Bush . June 12, 2008.
  9. Web site: Summary of Administrative Review Board Proceedings of ISN . November 11, 2004 . OARDEC . 172–174 . . December 5, 2007 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071204200602/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/Set_52_3643-3869.pdf . December 4, 2007.
  10. Web site: Abdullah Al Noaimi v. George Walker Bush . 1–24 . OARDEC . 9 December 2004 . . December 5, 2007 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071204200503/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/publicly_filed_CSRT_records_894-976.pdf . December 4, 2007.
  11. Web site: Annual Administrative Review Boards for Enemy Combatants Held at Guantanamo Attributable to Senior Defense Officials . March 6, 2007 . U.S. Department of Defense . November 12, 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100228040335/http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=3902 . February 28, 2010 .
  12. Web site: Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Noaimi, Abdullah . July 1, 2005 . OARDEC . 85–86 . . December 5, 2007 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071204194302/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000099-000196.pdf . December 4, 2007.
  13. Web site: Administrative Review Board assessment and recommendation ICO ISN 159 . October 4, 2005 . OARDEC . United States Department of Defense . December 5, 2007 . 38 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071204201503/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Decision_memos_000096-000195.pdf . December 4, 2007.
  14. Web site: Classified Record of Proceedings and basis of Administrative Review Board recommendation for ISN 159 . July 26, 2005 . OARDEC . United States Department of Defense . December 5, 2007 . 39–45 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071204201503/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Decision_memos_000096-000195.pdf . 4 December 2007.
  15. News: Guantánamo: Pictures from Home. Questions of Justice . Kelly . Klaasmeyer . May 17, 2007 . . August 9, 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110615043142/http://www.houstonpress.com/2007-05-17/culture/guant-namo-pictures-from-home-questions-of-justice/ . June 15, 2011.
  16. News: Free at last! . November 5, 2005 . . November 5, 2005 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071028005032/http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=126067&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=28230 . October 28, 2007 . dead .
  17. News: Bay victims may get BD50,000 . Geoffrey . Bew. August 23, 2007. Gulf Daily News. August 23, 2007 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110609045316/http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=191432. June 9, 2011.
  18. News: Ex-detainee disputes triple suicide report . June 25, 2006 . Habib . Tourni . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090805004415/http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/06/06/25/10049187.html . August 5, 2009.
  19. News: Freed Bay man held in Saudi . Rasha Al Qahtani . 32. 63--> . October 31, 2008 . . November 1, 2008 . dead . https://archive.today/20130124215107/http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=233238 . January 24, 2013.
  20. News: Bahraini may be freed soon . Rasha Al Qahtani . November 27, 2008 . Gulf Daily News . November 28, 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081201001401/http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/story.asp?Article=236251&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=31252 . December 1, 2008.
  21. News: Rights row over Saudi detainee . Geoffrey . Bew . November 29, 2008 . Gulf Daily News . November 30, 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081202182045/http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/story.asp?Article=236389&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=31254 . December 2, 2008.
  22. News: Don't forget us say jailed four . Rashid Al Qahtani . April 14, 2009 . Gulf Daily News . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090419074657/http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=248096 . April 19, 2009.
  23. News: Later Terror Link Cited for 1 in 7 Freed Detainees . May 20, 2009 . Elizabeth . Bumiller . . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20110501084042/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/us/politics/21gitmo.html?ref=americas . May 1, 2011.
  24. News: The Guantánamo Docket: Re-engaged . May 20, 2009 . The New York Times . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20090524173343/http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/recidivism . May 24, 2009.
  25. News: What Happened to Skepticism? . Clark . Hoyt . June 6, 2009 . The New York Times . September 4, 2019 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20170731203453/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/opinion/07pubed.html . July 31, 2017.

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