Abdallah Saleh Ali Al Ajmi (2 August 1978 – 23 March 2008) was a
Kuwait
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i citizen, who was held in
extrajudicial detention
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in the
United States
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Guantanamo Bay detainment camp
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s, in
Cuba
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.
His Guantanamo
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History
On March 3, 2006, in compliance with a court order from D ...
was 220.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo
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counter-terrorism
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analysts reports indicated that he was born on 2 August 1978, in
Almadi, Kuwait.
On 2 September 2003, attorneys
Thomas Wilner,
Neil H. Koslowe,
Kristine A. Huskey, and Heather Lamberg Kafele filed a Petition for writ of
Certiorari
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on behalf of Al Ajmi and eleven other Guantanamo detainees.
[Petition for writ of Certiorari]
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'', 2 September 2003
In March or April 2008, Al Ajmi conducted a
suicide attack
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in
Iraq
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.
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Combatant Status Review
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for his tribunal. The memo accused him of the following:[
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Abdullah Saleh Ali Al Ajmi v. United States of America
A writ of habeas corpus
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, Abdullah Saleh Ali Al Ajmi v. United States of America, was submitted on Abdullah Saleh Ali Al Ajmi's behalf.
Detainee election form
Al Ajmi's Personal Representative
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's Detainee election form stated that they met for twenty minutes, and recorded in its notes section:
Earned mention in the "No-hearing hearings" study
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, Al Ajmi was the first captive to have his Tribunal convened.
Administrative Review Board
Detainees whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal
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labeled them "enemy combatants" were scheduled for annual Administrative Review Board
The Administrative Review Board is a United States military body that conducts an annual review of the detainees held by the United States in Camp Delta in the United States Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The purpose of the Board is to revi ...
hearings. These hearings were designed to assess the threat a detainee might pose if released or transferred, and whether there were other factors that warranted his continued detention.[
]
Summary of Evidence memo
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for
Abdallah Salih Ali Al Ajmi's
Administrative Review Board,
on 4 February 2005.
Transcript
Al Ajmi's Board hearing convened on 4 February 2005.court order
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from Jed Rakoff
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Education
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the Department of Defense Department of Defence or Department of Defense may refer to:
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published a twenty-five page summarized transcript from his Administrative Review Board hearing.
Board recommendations
In early September 2007, the Department of Defense released two heavily redacted memos, from his Board, to Gordon R. England
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...
, the Designated Civilian Official.
Repatriation and acquittal
Al Ajmi was repatriated to Kuwait and taken into Kuwaiti custody on 3 November 2005.[Kuwaitis released from Guantanamo]
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'', 3 November 2005 Al Ajmi was freed, on bail, while he awaited trial.
The five men trial began in March 2006, and were acquitted on 22 July 2006.
, an Afghan charity with ties to al-Qaeda, and that they had fought alongside the Taliban.
Further, the prosecution argued that the detainees actions had endangered Kuwait's political standing and its relations with friendly nations.
The detainees' defense had argued that testimony secured in Guantanamo could not be used in Kuwaiti courts, because the detainees and interrogators had not signed them.
Furthermore, they had argued that the allegations the USA had directed at them were not violations of Kuwaiti law.
In an October 2011 article about the torture of other former captives from Kuwait, ''
reported that people who knew him ''"described him as unstable when he returned from Guantanamo."''
, Iraq.