Fazaldad

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Fazaldad is a citizen of Pakistan, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.^[1] His detainee ID number is 142. Intelligence analysts estimated that Fazaldad was born in 1982, in Atian, Pakistan.

[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives from the war on terror. This policy was challenged before the Judicial branch. Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct a competent tribunals to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of prisoner of war status.

Subsequently the Department of Defense instituted the Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The Tribunals, however, were not authorized to determine whether the captives were lawful combatants -- rather they were merely empowered to make a recommendation as to whether the captive had previously been correctly determined to match the Bush administration's definition of an enemy combatant.

Fazaldad chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.^[2]

[edit] testimony

Fazaldad denied being a member of the Taliban, and denied participating in jihad.

Fazaldad acknowledged attending a training camp, and learing how to shoot a Kalashnikov. He said he wanted to some military training in order to defend his family in the local feuds back in Pakistan - not to participate in attacks against the USA.

Fazaldad said he didn’t complete his training because he was injured.

While in Afghanistan he said he didn’t engage in any hostilities.