Khalid Sulaymanjaydh Al Habayshi

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Khalid Sulaymanjaydh Al Habayshi is a Saudi held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.^[1] Al Habayshi's detainee ID number is 155.

[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.

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

[edit] allegations

The allegations against Al Habayshi were:^[2]

The detainee traveled to the Philippines towards the end of 1996 or 1997 to train for jihad at Camp Vietnam.
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The detainee traveled to Afghanistan in 1997 and trained at the Khalden Camp.
The detainee attended three courses at the Khalden Camp; The Basic, the Gunnery, and the Tactics course.
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The detainee’s Tactics Course consisted of learning camouflage, map reading, urban warfare, and small unit tactics.
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The detainee stayed at an al Qaida guesthouse in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
The detainee was apprehended by Pakistani authorities in Pakistan.