Bisher Amin Khalil al-Rawi

Bisher Amin Khalil Al-Rawi is an Iraqi citizen, who moved to the United Kingdom when he was a child. He was captured in Gambia on a business trip, and is currently detained in Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay.

Al-Rawi's Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Al-Rawi is one of the detainees who chose to appear before his Combatant Status Review Tribunal. Most of the questions concerned his friendship with a muslim cleric named Abu Qatada. Al-Rawi says that Qatada asked him for small favours, translating for him when he looked for an apartment, small home repairs, and on a few occasion over three or four years he agreed to transfer money to Abu Qatada's father in Jordan.

The Tribunal described his attempts to help Qatada find an apartment as helping him hide from British authorities. Al-Rawi replied that it had appeared to him that Qatada was living openly, and he had no way of knowing that Qatada was a wanted man.

When asked if he knew Qatada was associated with al Qaeda he says he became aware that Qatada's name was linked to al Qaeda, only after September 11, 2002.

The Tribunal concluded that Al-Rawi had been properly classified as an "illegal combatant".

External links

• documents from Bisher Amin Khalil Al-Rawi's Combatant Status Review Tribunal