Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Yasin Qassem Muhammad Ismail

UNCLASSIFIED

Department of Defense
Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants
at US Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

1 February 2005

From:	Presiding Officer
To:	Ismail, Yasin Qassem // Muhammad
Via:	Assisting Military Officer
Subject:	Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Ismail, Yasin Qassem // Muhammad

1.

An Administrative Review Board will be convened to review your case to detennine if your continued detention is necessary.

2.

The Administrative Review Board will conduct a comprehensive review of all reasonably available and relevant information regarding your case. At the conclusion of this review the Board will make a recommendation to: (1) release you to your home state or to a third state; (2) transfer you to your home state, or a third state, with conditions agreed upon by the United States and your home state, or the third state; or (3) continue your detention under United States control.

3.

The following primary factors favor continued detention:

a.

Training

1.	Detainee stated he traveled to Afghanistan for the purpose of receiving training.
2.	The detainee recalled that on more than one occasion he attended the al Farouq training camp.
3.	The detainee stated he attended the Malek training camp north of Kabul.
4.	The detainee stated he went back to the Malek camp for additional training.

b.

Connection

1.	The detainee stayed at a guest house staffed by al Qaida while in Afghanistan.
2.	The detainee saw Usama Bin Laden (UBL) at a guest house the first week of the U.S. bombing campaign in Afghanistan, approximately I November 2001.

c.

Intent

1.	The detainee stated he went to Afghanistan to train so he could fight in Chechnya.

d.

Other relevant data

1.	The detainee stated he traveled to Afghanistan, via Yemen Airlines from Sana, Yemen, by taking a plane to Dubai, then staying on the plane for connection to Karachi, Pakistan, hi Karachi he sat in a hotel for four or five days, waiting for someone to pick him up and take him to Afghanistan,,
2.	The detainee was captured in Tora Bora.

4.

The following primary factors favor release or transfer:

a.	The detainee stated that even though he observed UBL he did not talk with him and did not agree with his religion or politics.
b.	The detainee stated that he was not al Qaida because his thoughts were free.
c.	The detainee stated he did not know about the plans to attack the World Trade Center prior to 11 September 2001.

5.

You will be afforded a meaningful opportunity to be heard and to present information Board [sic]; this includes an opportunity to be physically present at the proceeding. The Assisting Military Officer (AMO) will assist you in reviewing all relevant and reasonably available unclassified information regarding your case. The AMO is not an advocate for or against continued detention, nor may the AMO form a confidential relationship with you or represent you in any other matter.