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Ali Husein Shaaban
Ali Husain Shaabaan's official Guantanamo identity portrait, showing him wearing the white uniform issued to compliant individuals
BornMarch 6, 1982
Utaiba, Syria
Released2014-12-08
Uruguay
CitizenshipSyria
Detained at Guantanamo
Other name(s) Ali Husein Muhammad Shaaban
ISN327
Charge(s)No charge, extrajudicial detention
Statusgranted refugee status

Ali Husein Shaaban is a citizen of Syria, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 327. The Department of Defense reports that he was born on March 6, 1982, in Utaiba, Syria.

He was granted refugee status, in Uruguay, on December 8, 2014.[2][3][4]

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

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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 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.

Shaaban chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[5]

allegations

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The allegations that Shaaban faced during his Tribunal were:

a. The detainee is associated with al Qaida and the Taliban:
  1. The Detainee left Syria on 3 July 2000, traveled through Turkey and Iran, and arrived in Afghanistan.
  2. The Detainee resided for approximately one year, with five to six other Syrians, in a house rented by a Syrian in Kabul, Afghanistan.
  3. Four of the Syrians from the house (including the Detainee) have been captured and are being held by the United States and coalition partners.
  4. The Detainee fled to Afghanistan to join a Syrian camp under the supervision of a leader allied with Usama Bin Laden.
  5. The Detainee reportedly attempted to convince his brother to receive flight training in the United States.
  6. The Detainee received basic training on the Kalashnikov rifle.
b. The detainee participated in military operations against the United States and its coalition partners:
  1. The Detainee left Kabul, after its fall to the Northern Alliance, and stayed in a trench that was supplied with food, water and weapons.
  2. The detainee stated that there were three Yemenis in the trench that had Kalashnikov rifles.
  3. When the bombing campaign started, the Detainee drove with three others to unidentified mountains in the direction of Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
  4. The Detainee and three others surrendered to Pakistani authorities when the group arrived in Pakistan.

References

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  1. ^ OARDEC (2006-05-15). "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
  2. ^ Andy Worthington (2014-12-08). "Who Are the Six Men Freed from Guantánamo and Given New Homes in Uruguay?". Retrieved 2014-12-08. Back in March, President José Mujica of Uruguay — a former political prisoner — announced that he had been approached by the Obama administration regarding the resettlement of Guantánamo prisoners and had offered new homes to a number of men, cleared for release from the prison in 2009 by President Obama's high-level Guantánamo Review Task Force, who could not be safely repatriated.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ "Detainee Transfer Announced". United States Department of Defense. 2014-12-07. Archived from the original on 2014-12-07. Retrieved 2014-12-09. The Department of Defense announced today the transfer of Ahmed Adnan Ahjam, Ali Hussain Shaabaan, Omar Mahmoud Faraj, Abdul Bin Mohammed Abis Ourgy, Mohammed Tahanmatan, and Jihad Diyab from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the Government of Uruguay.
  4. ^ Margot Williams. "Guantanamo timeline 2014". New York Times. Retrieved 2014-12-08.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Ali Husein Muhammad Shaaban's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 77-86
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Category:Detainees of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp Category:Syrian extrajudicial prisoners of the United States Category:Living people Category:1982 births