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On March 3, 2006, the Department of Defense

United States Department of Defense

The United States Department of Defense is the U.S...

 released 5,000 pages of documents about the detainees, in partial compliance with a court order

Court order

A court order is an official proclamation by a judge that defines the legal relationships between the parties to a hearing, a trial, an appeal or other court proceedings. Such ruling requires or authorizes the carrying out of certain steps by one or more parties to a case...

 from US District Court Justice Jed Rakoff.
The Department of Defense published an eight page summarized transcripts from Al Rashid's Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Combatant 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...

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For some reason the Department of Defense released Al Rashid's transcript twice.

Press reports

When the Department of Defense first released its thousands of pages of transcripts most transcripts were only identified by a detainee ID number. A few transcripts contained the detainee's name in the body of the transcripts. Initial press reports focused on the cases of those detainees. Al Rashid was one of those detainees.

According to an Associated Press story Al Rashid told his Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Combatant 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...

 he: "went to Afghanistan to help Muslims fight against Abdul Rashid Dostum

Abdul Rashid Dostum

Abdul Rashid Dostum is a former pro-Soviet fighter during the Soviet war in Afghanistan and is considered by many to be the leader of Afghanistan's Uzbek community and the party Junbish-e Milli-yi Islami-yi Afghanistan...

, a former northern warlord

Warlord

A warlord is a person with power who has both military and civil control over a subnational area due to armed forces loyal to the warlord and not to a central authority. The term can also mean one who espouses the ideal that war is necessary, and has the means and authority to engage in war...

 now the Afghan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

 army chief of staff, and Ahmed Shah Massoud

Ahmed Shah Massoud

Ahmad Shah Massoud was a Kabul University engineering student turned military leader who played a leading role in driving the Soviet army out of Afghanistan, earning him the name Lion of Panjshir. His followers call him Āmir Sāhib-e Shahīd...

, an anti-Taliban Afghan military commander slain September 9, 2001.

Al Rashid told his Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Combatant 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...

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• "I did not know my training would be considered al-Qaeda training. I was trying to help Muslims,"
• "I never had a weapon. I never carried a weapon with me and I've never been in any kind of armed fight ... I always knew America as a democratic country and always heard positive things about America. I believe that after 9/11 America became very aggressive and that's probably the only reason I'm here."
• "I am not from the Taliban. I'm just a person, a helper."

Repatriated on December 29, 2007

A captive named "Mishaal Saad Al-Rasheed"
was repatriated on December 29, 2007, with nine other men.

On January 9, 2009 the Department of Defense published the records for the third set of Administrative Review Board hearings, conducted in 2007 and early 2008.
According to those records no review was scheduled for Rashid in 2007.
According to the records of the 2005 and 2006 Board hearings, those boards had not recommended his repatriation.
Al Rashid was repatriated in spite of the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants recommending his continued detention in US custody.

External links

• Who Are The Ten Saudis Just Released From Guantánamo? Andy Worthington