Ridouane Khalid

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Ridouane Khalid (Arabic: رضوان خالد‎) (born 1969) is a French citizen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1] Khalid's ISN was 173. The Department of Defense says his birthdate is August 16, 1967.

He along with Khaled Ben Mustapha and Mustaq Ali Patel was the last French citizen held at the base. They were released in March 2005 and placed under formal investigation by a judge in Paris. Khalid has two brothers already under investigation for alleged terrorism-related matters.

1 Combatant Status Review Tribunal
- 1.1 Allegations
- 1.2 Testimony
2 References
3 External link

[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a small trailer, the same width, but shorter, than a mobile home. The Tribunal's President sat in the big chair. The detainee sat with their hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor in the white, plastic garden chair. A one way mirror behind the Tribunal President allowed observers to observe clandestinely. In theory the open sessions of the Tribunals were open to the press. Three chairs were reserved for them. In practice the Tribunal only intermittently told the press that Tribunals were being held. And when they did they kept the detainee's identities secret. In practice almost all Tribunals went unobserved.

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.

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

[edit] Allegations

The allegations that Khalid faced during his Tribunal were:

a. -- The general summary of the allegations that establish an association with terrorism were missing from the transcript. --

Detainee is a French citizen who traveled to Afghanistan from London on 22 July 2001.
The detainee trained with Kalashnikov rifles in Afghanistan.
The detainee stayed at a safehouse in Kabul in the Akbar Khan Mina neighborhood, a known Taliban and Al Qaeda occupied territory.
The detainee stated that he traveled to a Taliban camp in Kandahar for training and also carried weapons into the mountains when Jalalabad fell to the Northern Alliance.
The detainee stated he arrived in Jalalabad in August 2001 and stayed at an Algerian safe house.
The detainee stated that, after September 11,2001, he met two fellow detainees at the same Algerian safe house that was located in Jalalabad.