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This memo was released in March of 2005.[1]
The allegations this detainee faced were:
- a. The detainee is a member of al Qaida and is associated with the Taliban:
- During July 2001, the detainee traveled from Saudi Arabia, through Pakistan, where he stayed in a Taliban house, then on to Qandahar, finally arriving in Kabul, Afghanistan.
- While in Kabul, Afghanistan, detainee stated that he worked at the direction of the al Wafa organization.
- The nongovernmental organization 'Wafa' reportedly is believed to possibly be a terrorist organization and may have had connections to Usama bin Ladin and Afghan Mujahedin.
- The al Wafa organization has been identified as a terrorist organization.
- The al Wafa organization has been identified as a terrorist organization on the U.S. State Department's Terrorist Exclusion List.
- The detainee's name appears on a list of Arabs incarcerated in Pakistan and this list belonged to a suspected member of al Qaida.
- The detainee's name appears on a list of probable al Qaida members.
- The detainee stated that as fighting neared, he fled Kabul prior to being arrested by Pakistani authorities as he was trying to cross the border into Pakistan.
References
[edit]- ↑ CSRT Summary of Evidence memoranda (.pdf) released in March 2005, Combatant Status Review Tribunals - October 1 2004 - page 219