Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Zahrani, Khalid Mohammed (2006-05-23)

UNCLASSIFIED Department of Defense Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants at US Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
	23 May 2006

To:	Al Zahrani, Khalid Mohammed
Subject:	Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Zahrani, Khalid Mohammed

1.	An Administrative Review Board will be convened to review your case to determine 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: (I) release you to your home state; (2) transfer you to your home state, with conditions agreed upon by the United States and your home state; or (3) continue your detention under United States control.
3.	The following primary factors favor continued detention:
	a. Commitment The detainee is a Saudi Arabian national who volunteered to travel to Afghanistan to fight against the Northern Alliance in May 2001. The detainee began planning for jihad, which included talking to sheikhs to receive advice on travel routes. While on vacation with his family, the detainee left and met with an individual. The detainee was on the front line in an area called Kut Kalif in Kabul, Afghanistan. The detainee was in a fighting position in the Tora Bora mountain region from 23 November 2001 until 18 December 2001. b. Training The detainee traveled to Kut Bakram training camp in Kabul, Afghanistan where he received training on the Kalashnikov rifle and rocket-propelled grenades. c. Connections/Associations The detainee's name and phone number were found in a computer file which was associated with a senior al Qaida lieutenant. It was seized during joint raids with a foreign government service. According to a foreign government service, the detainee was listed among reported members of al Qaida. The detainee's name was on a document listing 324 Arabic names, aliases, and nationalities recovered from safe house raids associated with suspected al Qaida in Karachi, Pakistan. The list identified the detainee by name, nationality, and noted he had a Saudi passport in his possession. The detainee's name was found on a document containing a list of names, safety-deposit boxes, and contents found on a floppy disk recovered from raids of a suspect al Qaida safe house on 11 September 2002. The detainee's name was found under a chat session on a computer hard drive seized from the suspected al Qaida cell that attacked the U.S. Marines on Faylaka Island in October 2002. The detainee's name was on a list recovered from computer media of al Qaida Mujahedin and the contents of their trust accounts during raids against al Qaida-associated safe houses in Rawalpindi and Karachi between 11 September 2002 and 1 March 2003. The name of the detainee was found on an Arabic-language computer file, which lists contact points and telephone numbers for al Qaida Mujahedin in Pakistan. According to the file, these Mujahedin were among a group who came to Afghanistan in December 2001 but who had not completed their training and were not ready to fight in the war. The detainee was listed in a computer file recovered from a suspected al Qaida safe house in Islamabad, Pakistan. The file lists 78 associates incarcerated in Pakistan and appears to be an updated/corrected copy of an earlier list. The detainee's name was listed on an undated letter that listed 68 probable al Qaida members incarcerated in Pakistan. The purpose of the document was to incite the people against the Pakistani government. d. Intent The detainee stated that he followed a fatwa to help the Taliban fight jihad. The detainee went to Afghanistan because of a fatwa issued over the internet. The detainee was a Taliban fighter from August to December 2001, and fought on the Bagram line near Kabul, Afghanistan for two weeks in October 2001. e. Other Relevant Data The detainee was in possession of a Casio watch model that is linked to bombings committed by al Qaida and other radical Islamic terrorists.
4.	The following primary factors favor release or transfer:
	The detainee stated that he did not have prior knowledge of the attacks on 11 September 2001 and he is not affiliated with al Qaida.
5.	You will be afforded a meaningful opportunity to be heard and to present information to the Board; 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.