Faiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari
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Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari is a Kuwait
i citizen who has been detained in Guantanamo Bay
since 2002. He has been charged with war crimes.
The US Department of Defense reports he was born on June 3, 1975 in Kuwait City
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Al Kandari has been held at Guantanamo for .
accused him of the following: "The detainee (Al Kandari) recruited personnel to participate in jihad in Afghanistan ... traveled into Afghanistan and received weapons training at the Khaldan training camp. Osama bin Laden personally provided religious instruction and trainee (sic) at this camp."
Al Kandari has always denied the accusations and said: "I looked at all the unclassified accusations; I was laughing so hard." and "All this happened in a period of three months ... I ask, 'Are these accusations against Faiz or against Superman?' It seems to me that whoever wrote these accusations he must (have) been drinking and he must have been drunk when he wrote it."
, which cited Al Kandari as an example of a detainee for whom all the evidence against him was "hearsay evidence".
The study quoted the Tribunal's legal advisor:
The study commented:
Faiz Muhammad Ahmed al Kandari's lawyer, Lieutenant Colonel Barry Wingard
is the detailed lead attorney from the Office of Military Commissions. Lieutenant Colonel Wingard recently submitted and had published an article about citing hearsey evidence against his client. Lieutenant Colonel Wingard said "Vague charges made it difficult to defend his client after he was assigned in October to represent a Kuwaiti named Fayiz al-Kandari". In trying to prepare his case, Lieutenant Colonel Wingard said:
In November 2011 Wingard expressed outrage over a propaganda video that the DOD had published.
Cynamon's clients were picked up in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region in the period after the 2001 U.S invasion of Afghanistan. Asked whether he had observed a shift of any kind in the government's approach since the Obama administration came into office, Cynamon flatly replied
In even more Habeas Corpus news, a Federal Judge in Washington is on a tear against alleged bad lawyering by the Justice Department.
In a stinging order issued today, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly refused to reconsider an earlier and similarly scathing order requiring the Justice Department to replace the government's attorney responding to challenges several Kuwaiti men have brought to their imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay. How mad was the judge? Her salvo Monday uses the words "shockingly revisionist," "flippant" and "disingenuous" to describe the government's handling of the litigation. attorney Matthew Maclean said.
Kuwait
The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab state situated in the north-east of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south at Khafji, and Iraq to the north at Basra. It lies on the north-western shore of the Persian Gulf. The name Kuwait is derived from the...
i citizen who has been detained in Guantanamo Bay
Guantanamo Bay detainment camp
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a detainment and interrogation facility of the United States located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The facility was established in 2002 by the Bush Administration to hold detainees from the war in Afghanistan and later Iraq...
since 2002. He has been charged with war crimes.
The US Department of Defense reports he was born on June 3, 1975 in Kuwait City
Kuwait City
-Suburbs:Although the districts below are not usually recognized as suburbs, the following is a list of a few areas surrounding Kuwait city:Al-Salam ""السلام"" -Economy:...
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Al Kandari has been held at Guantanamo for .
Combatant Status Review
His Combatant Status Review TribunalCombatant Status Review Tribunal
The Combatant Status Review Tribunals were a set of tribunals for confirming whether detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had been correctly designated as "enemy combatants". The CSRTs were established July 7, 2004 by order of U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense...
accused him of the following: "The detainee (Al Kandari) recruited personnel to participate in jihad in Afghanistan ... traveled into Afghanistan and received weapons training at the Khaldan training camp. Osama bin Laden personally provided religious instruction and trainee (sic) at this camp."
Al Kandari has always denied the accusations and said: "I looked at all the unclassified accusations; I was laughing so hard." and "All this happened in a period of three months ... I ask, 'Are these accusations against Faiz or against Superman?' It seems to me that whoever wrote these accusations he must (have) been drinking and he must have been drunk when he wrote it."
Hearsay evidence
Lawyers for two Guantanamo detainees organized a study entitled, No-hearing hearingsNo-hearing hearings
No-hearing hearings is the title of a study published by Professor Mark P. Denbeaux of the Seton Hall University School of Law, his son Joshua Denbeaux, and some of his law students, on October 17, 2006....
, which cited Al Kandari as an example of a detainee for whom all the evidence against him was "hearsay evidence".
The study quoted the Tribunal's legal advisor:
The study commented:
Comments from his lawyer Lieutenant Colonel Barry D. Wingard
On 1 July 2009, the Washington Post and the DoD edition called "The Early Bird" posted an article about Lieutenant Colonel Barry Wingard and Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed al Kandari, pertaining to the harsh treatment and enhanced interrogation techniques that Fayiz was continually subjected to.Faiz Muhammad Ahmed al Kandari's lawyer, Lieutenant Colonel Barry Wingard
Barry Wingard
Barry Wingard is an American lawyer and officer in the United States Air National Guard.-Military career:Wingard's original military service was an enlisted soldier in the United States Army.Wingard is an Iraq War Veteran....
is the detailed lead attorney from the Office of Military Commissions. Lieutenant Colonel Wingard recently submitted and had published an article about citing hearsey evidence against his client. Lieutenant Colonel Wingard said "Vague charges made it difficult to defend his client after he was assigned in October to represent a Kuwaiti named Fayiz al-Kandari". In trying to prepare his case, Lieutenant Colonel Wingard said:
In November 2011 Wingard expressed outrage over a propaganda video that the DOD had published.
Habeas Corpus
In a recently conducted interview with TPMmuckraker, Mr. David Cynamon—a lawyer for four Kuwaiti Gitmo detainees who are bringing habeas corpus claims against the government.Cynamon's clients were picked up in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region in the period after the 2001 U.S invasion of Afghanistan. Asked whether he had observed a shift of any kind in the government's approach since the Obama administration came into office, Cynamon flatly replied
In even more Habeas Corpus news, a Federal Judge in Washington is on a tear against alleged bad lawyering by the Justice Department.
In a stinging order issued today, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly refused to reconsider an earlier and similarly scathing order requiring the Justice Department to replace the government's attorney responding to challenges several Kuwaiti men have brought to their imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay. How mad was the judge? Her salvo Monday uses the words "shockingly revisionist," "flippant" and "disingenuous" to describe the government's handling of the litigation. attorney Matthew Maclean said.
US v. Al Kandari
On 22 October 2008 the Office of Military Commissions filed charges against Al Kandari.External links
- Resisting Injustice In Guantánamo: The Story Of Fayiz Al-Kandari Andy Worthington, 17 October 2009
- US Military Lawyer: Kuwait Needs to Speak Up on Guantánamo Andy Worthington, February 26, 2010
- Judge OK's indefinite detention of alleged bin Laden advisor.
- Kuwaiti Family Committee website
- Political Carnival-Part 3 website
- Political Carnival-Part 4 website