Faruq Ali Ahmed
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Mentioned in the "No-hearing hearings" study
According to the 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....
, Faruq Ali Ahmed's Personal Representative
Personal Representative (CSRT)
The Personal Representative is an officer who serves before the Combatant Status Review Tribunals, convened for the captives the United States holds in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.-History of the Tribunals:...
recorded his or her objections to the Tribunal's conclusion:
Administrative Review Board hearing
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 weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't 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.
Ahmed chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.
Ahmed's writ of habeas corpus
Ahmed was the subject of an article in the February 3, 2006 issue of the National JournalNational Journal
National Journal is a nonpartisan American weekly magazine that reports on the current political environment and emerging political and policy trends. National Journal was first published in 1969. Times Mirror owned the magazine from 1986 to 1997, when it was purchased by David G. Bradley...
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According to the article Ahmed's Personal Representative, from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, filed a protest to the fairness of his review, which was attached to his writ of habeas corpus.
The article reported that the two more serious allegations against Ahmed, which he had flatly denied, were based solely on a denunciation by two other detainees, one of whom the FBI had warned was an unreliable liar. The article quotes from Ahmed's Personal Representative's protest:
The other detainee who denounced Ahmed was Mohammed al Qahtani, who the subject of a Time magazine
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
expose. Al Qahtani was held in an isolation unit and subjected to interrogation for 18 to 20 hours a day, for 48 days out of 54. The article notes:
The interrogation log that Time made available for download chronicles how the exhausting nature of al Qahtani's questioning brought on physical collapses. When al Qahtani collapsed medical technicians were called in to give him IV drips, enemas, force-feedings, to get him going again.
At the end of his interrogation al Qahtani identified the mug shots of thirty of the other detainees as bodyguard
Bodyguard
A bodyguard is a type of security operative or government agent who protects a person—usually a famous, wealthy, or politically important figure—from assault, kidnapping, assassination, stalking, loss of confidential information, terrorist attack or other threats.Most important public figures such...
s of Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of the militant Islamist organization Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets...
. Ahmed was one of the thirty men al Qahtani fingered. Al Qahtani was later to recant everything he confessed during his extreme interrogation.
The story identifies David Remes and Mark Falkoff of Covington & Burling
Covington & Burling
Covington & Burling LLP is an international law firm with offices in Beijing, Brussels, London, New York, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, San Diego, and Washington, DC. The firm advises multinational corporations on significant transactional, litigation, regulatory, and public policy matters...
, lawyers who volunteered through the Center for Constitutional Rights
Center for Constitutional Rights
Al Odah v. United States:Al Odah is the latest in a series of habeas corpus petitions on behalf of people imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay detention center. The case challenges the Military Commissions system’s suitability as a habeas corpus substitute and the legality, in general, of detention at...
to represent Guantanamo detainees, as Ahmed's lawyers. They represent 16 other detainees. The article quotes Remes as saying he didn't actually expect that his clients would be innocent, that he volunteered because he felt every suspect deserved legal advice. But that when he and Falcoff traveled to visit the families of their clients, and looked into their backgrounds, they found all the evidence was consistent with their clients telling the truth about their lack of ties to terrorism.
Remes and Falkoff found that several other clients of theirs faced denunciation from al Qahtani and from the other unnamed detainee that the FBI had identified as an unreliable liar.
One new allegation against Ahmed
According to the article, during his Administrative Review BoardAdministrative 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....
hearing, Ahmed faced one new allegation:
The article points out that Farouq is a very common personal name, noting:
Farouq
Al Farouq training camp
The Al Farouq training camp, also known as "the airport camp", was an alleged Al-Qaeda training camp near Kandahar, Afghanistan. Camp attendees received small-arms training, map-reading, orientation, explosives training, and other training....
is also the name of one of al Qaeda's most well-known military training camps.
Repatriation
Carol RosenbergCarol 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:...
, writing in the Miami Herald reported that Farouq Ali Ahmed
was one of twelve men transferred from Guantanamo on December 19, 2009.
The other eleven men were:
Ayman Batarfi,
Jamal Alawi Mari,
Muhammaed Yasir Ahmed Taher,
Fayad Yahya Ahmed al Rami,
Riyad Atiq Ali Abdu al Haf,
Abdul Hafiz,
Sharifullah,
Mohamed Rahim
Mohamed Rahim
Mohamed Naeem Rahim is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 1104.The Department of Defense reports he was born in Ghazni....
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Mohammed Hashim,
Ismael Arale and
Mohamed Suleiman Barre.
Abdul Hafiz, Sharifullah, Mohamed Rahim and Mohammed Hashim were Afghans
Afghan captives in Guantanamo
According to the United States Department of Defense, there were over two hundred Afghan detainees in Guantanamo prior to May 15, 2006.The Guantanamo Bay detention camp was opened on January 11, 2002....
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Asmael Arale and Mohamed Suleiman Barre were Somalis.
The other five men were fellow Yemenis.