Saleh Abdall Al Oshan
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Determined to "no longer be an enemy combatant"
A memo entitled "Review of Combatant Status Review Tribunal for detainee ISN 248", dated 10 March 2005, stated:Saleh Abdall Al Oshan v. George W. Bush
Teresa A. McPalmer, a legal advisorLegal Advisor (OARDEC)
A Legal Advisor, and an Assistant Legal Advisor were part of the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants team tasked to conduct Combatant Status Review Tribunals of captives held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.The...
to the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants responded to Saleh Abdall Al Oshan v. George W. Bush, a petition on
Saleh Abdall Al Oshan's behalf, on 19 May 2005.
She wrote:
Medical records
On March 16, 2007 the Department of DefenseUnited States Department of Defense
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published records of the captives' height and weights.
Repatriation
Saleh Abdall Al Oshan was one of the 38 captives the Bush Presidency determined had not been enemy combatants after all.Reuters
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cites a Human Rights Watch
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report that said that an individual named Salih al-Awshan, and two other Saudis, were repatriated to Saudi custody on July 20, 2005.
As of May 26, 2006 the three remain held, without charge, in Riyadh
Riyadh
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's al-Ha'ir prison
Al-Ha'ir Prison
Al-Ha'ir Prison is a Saudi Arabian maximum-security prison facility located approximately 25 miles south of Riyadh...
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