Adil Kamil Abdullah Al Wadi is a citizen of

Bahrain Bahrain ( ; ; ar, البحرين, al-Bahrayn, locally ), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, ' is an island country in Western Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf, and comprises a small archipelago made up of 50 natural islands and an ...

who was held in

extrajudicial detention Administrative detention is arrest and detention of individuals by the state without trial. A number of jurisdictions claim that it is done for security reasons. Many countries claim to use administrative detention as a means to combat terrorism ...

in the

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Guantanamo Bay detainment camp The Guantanamo Bay detention camp ( es, Centro de detención de la bahía de Guantánamo) is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, also referred to as Guantánamo, GTMO, and Gitmo (), on the coast of Guant ...

s, in

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. Al Wadi's Guantanamo

Internment Serial Number An Internment Serial Number (ISN) is an identification number assigned to captives who come under control of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) during armed conflicts. History On March 3, 2006, in compliance with a court order from ...

was 60. American

intelligence analysts Intelligence analysis is the application of individual and collective cognitive methods to weigh data and test hypotheses within a secret socio-cultural context. The descriptions are drawn from what may only be available in the form of deliberate ...

estimate that Al Wadi was born in 1964, in

Muharraq Muharraq ( ar, المحرق, al-Muḥarraq) is Bahrain's third largest city and served as its capital until 1932 when it was replaced by Manama. The population of Muharraq in 2012 was 176,583. The city is located on Muharraq Island. Bahrain Int ...

, Bahrain. Adil Kamil Abdullah al Wadi was captured near the Pakistan-Afghan border and was transferred to Bahrain on November 4, 2005.

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the

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from detainees from

the war on terror The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is an ongoing international counterterrorism military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks. The main targets of the campaign are militant ...

. This policy was challenged before the Judicial branch. Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct

competent tribunal Competent Tribunal is a term used in Article 5 paragraph 2 of the Third Geneva Convention, which states: ICRC commentary on competent tribunals The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) commentary on Article 5 of the Third Geneva Con ...

s to determine whether detainees are, or are not, entitled to the protections of

prisoner of war A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610. Belligerents hold prisoners of w ...

status. Subsequently, the Department of Defense instituted the

Combatant Status Review Tribunal The Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) were a set of tribunals for confirming whether detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had been correctly designated as "enemy combatants". The CSRTs were estab ...

s. The Tribunals, however, were not authorized to determine whether the detainees were ''lawful combatants''—rather they were merely empowered to make a recommendation as to whether the detainee had previously been correctly determined to match the Bush administration's definition of an

enemy combatant Enemy combatant is a person who, either lawfully or unlawfully, engages in hostilities for the other side in an armed conflict. Usually enemy combatants are members of the armed forces of the state with which another state is at war. In the case ...

. Al Wadi chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal. Summarized transcripts (.pdf) from Adil Kamil Abdullah Al Wadi's ''

'' - pages 55-76

Allegations

The allegations Al Wadi faced, in the "Summary of Evidence" presented to his Tribunal were:Allegations, found on page 30 of Al Wadi's
''Combatant Status Review Tribunal''

Administrative Review Board hearing

Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at 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 re ...

hearings. The Administrative Review Boards weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant". They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat—or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free. The factors for and against continuing to detain %s were among the 121 that the Department of Defense released on March 3, 2006.Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf)
of Adil Kamil Abdullah Al Wadi ''Administrative Review Board'' - pages 53–54 - January 28, 2005 ''The following primary factors favor continued detention:'' ''The following primary factors favor release or transfer:''

Transcript

Al Wadi chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.

Release

Al Wadi, and the other five Bahrainis, are represented by Joshua Colangelo-Bryan. The Gulf Daily News announced on November 5, 2005, that Adel had been released, and was one of three Bahraini detainees on their way home.Free, at last!
''

Gulf Daily News The ''Gulf Daily News'' (''GDN'') is an English-language local newspaper published in the Kingdom of Bahrain by Al Hilal Group. The paper, which is one of six daily newspapers in Bahrain, calls itself "The Voice of Bahrain". Al Hilal Group publi ...

'', November 5, 2005Three Bahraini Guantanamo detainees return home
'' WFOR'', November 5, 2005 On Thursday August 23, 2007, the ''

'' reported that Bahraini Member of Parliament

Mohammed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Khalid Ibrahim ( ar, محمد خالد إبراهيم , born 2 November 1964) is a Bahraini Islamist politician and a member of the Al-Menbar Islamic Society in Bahrain. He was an MP in the lower house of the Bahraini parliamen ...

had called for the Bahrain government to provide financial compensation to the released men.

Op-ed

Kamel Abdulla wrote an op-ed about his experiences in Guantanamo in ''The Media Line'', on December 28, 2006.- mirror
He wrote: *The prison was under the control of Psychiatrists who tried their best to drive the captives crazy. *The captives weren't allowed sunlight. Their cells were under constant illumination from artificial light.

McClatchy News Service interview

On June 15, 2008, the

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published a series of articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo detainees.
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Adil Kamil al Wadi was one of the former detainees who had an article profiling him. In his McClatchy interview, Adil Kamil al Wadi reported religious persecution in the

Kandahar detention facility Kandahar Central Jail, also known as Sarpuza Prison or Sarposa Prison, is a minimum security prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan. It has been historically used for the incarceration of common criminals of Kandahar Province. In the last two decades, the ...

and in Guantanamo. He gave a detailed account of

Koran desecration Quran desecration is the treatment of the Quran, in its original Arabic form, in a way that might be considered disrespectful or insulting. Respect for the Quran as a holy book, as in other faiths, is an important element of religious faith in ...

. The McClatchy article quoted Mark Sullivan, Adil Kamil al Wadi's habeas corpus attorney, who had seen the classified allegations against him:

There was an absolute lack of evidence that would disprove anything he said. There was no credible evidence.

You have stories like Adil's: It sounds plausible, but if you were of a suspicious mind you could say it's vague ... and we don't have any corroboration. But what we keep coming back to is what does the government have in the way of proof?

References

External links

'Help me' plea by Bay detainee
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'', September 5, 2005
'Nightmare' for freed Bay Three
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'', November 9, 2005 *
McClatchy News Service - video
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