Abdullah Saleh Ali Al Ajmi
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Abdullah Saleh Ali Al Ajmi is a Kuwaiti who was detained in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1]
On September 2, 2003 attorney Thomas Wilner filed a Petition for writ of Certiorari on behalf of Al Ajmi and eleven other Guantanamo detainees.[2]
Al Ajmi chose not to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal. The allegations against Al Ajmi were:
- a. The detainee is a Taliban fighter:
- The detainee went AWOL from the Kuwaiti military in order to travel to Afghanistan to participate in the Jihad.
- The detainee was issued an AK-47, ammunition and hand grenades by the Taliban.
- b. The detainee participated in military operations against the coalition.
- The detainee admitted he was in Afghanistan fighting with the Taliban in the Bagram area.
- The detainee was placed in a defensive position by the Taliban in order to block the Northern Alliance.
- The detainee admitted spending eight months on the front line at the Aiubi Center, AF. (sic)
- The detainee admitted engaging in two or three fire fights with the Northern Alliance.
- The detainee retreated to the Tora Bora region of AF and was later captured as he attempted to escape to Pakistan.
[edit] Release and Acquittal
Al Ajmi was repatriated to Kuwait, and taken into Kuwaiti custody on November 3, 2005.[3]
Al Ajmi was freed, on bail, while he awaited trial.[4] His trial began in March 2006, and he was acquittd on July 22, 2006.
[edit] References
- ^ documents (.pdf), from Abdullah Saleh Ali Al Ajmi, Combatant Status Review Tribunal
- ^ Petition for writ of Certiorari, Findlaw, September 2, 2003
- ^ Kuwaitis released from Guantanamo, BBC, November 3, 2005
- ^ Kuwait's Gitmo men acquitted - again, Kuwait Times, July 23, 2006
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