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

Administrative Review Board

The Administrative Review Board is a United States military body that conducts an annual review of the suspects held by the United States in Camp Delta in the United States Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba....

 hearings.
The Administrative Review Boards were not authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they were not 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.

Two copies of the Summary of Evidence memo

Summary of Evidence (ARB)

Counter-terrorism analysts prepared a Summary of Evidence memo for the Administrative Review Board hearings of approximately 460 captives in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba from December 2004 to December 2005.-Release of the memos:...

, prepared for Houari's Administrative Review Board, were released, on March 3 2006 and September 4, 2007.

The following primary factors favor continued detention
The following primary factors favor release or transfer

Release or repatriation

Houari's first annual Administrative Review Board recommended, on April 11, 2005, that he should be released or transferred.
His decision recommendation memos were heavily redacted. But they included the information that no foreign intelligence services
had any reason to suggest he was a threat.

On July 3, 2008 Carol Rosenberg

Carol Rosenberg

Carol Rosenberg is a senior journalist, currently with the McClatchy News Service.Rosenberg works at the Miami Herald, which has provided extensive coverage of the operation of the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.-Biography:...

 of the Miami Herald reported that Abdul Raham Hourari and another Algerian, Mustafa Hamlily were repatriated on July 2, 2008.

On July 29, 2008 it was reported that one of the after-effects of his detention was that he was afraid to leave his house.

External links

• The Guantánamo Files: Website Extras (8) – Captured in Afghanistan Andy Worthington