Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Fouzan, Fahd Muhammed // Abdullah

UNCLASSIFIED

Department of Defense
Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Combatants [sic]
at US Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

From:	Presiding Officer
To:	Al Fouzan, Fahd Muhammed // Abdullah
Via:	Assisting Military Officer
Subject:	Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Fouzan, Fahd Muhammed // Abdullah

1.

An Administrative Review Board will be convened to review your case to determine if your continued detention is necessary.

2.

The Administrative Review Board will conduct a comprehensive review of all reasonably available and relevant information regarding your case. At the conclusion of this review the Board will make a recommendation to: (1) release you to your home state or to a third state; (2) transfer you to your home state, or a third state, with conditions agreed upon by the United States and your home state, or the third state; or (3) continue your detention under United States control.

3.

The following primary factors favor continued detention:

a.

Commitment

1.	The detainee traveled to Afghanistan after September 11,2001.
2.	The detainee traveled to Afghanistan from Saudi Arabia via: Bahrain; Karachi, Pakistan; Quetta, Pakistan; and into Kandahar, Afghanistan. While in Afghanistan, he traveled to Kabul, Khowst, and Jalalabad.
3.	The detainee went to Afghanistan for 10 months in 1999.

b.

Training

The detainee was identified as having attended the Abu Nasir military camp in Afghanistan.

c.

Connection/Associations

1.	The detainee was identified by a senior al Qaida member.
2.	The detainee worked for the Al-Harmayn Charitable Institute.
3.	Al-Harmayn was added on 11 Mar 02 to the list of organizations identified under Executive Order 13224 blocking property and prohibiting transactions with persons who commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism.
4.	The detainee's name was found on an internet website listing of captured Taliban and al Qaida fighters.
5.	The above mentioned website's stated goal was to publish the names to place pressure on the home countries and Pakistan to release the "prisoners."
6.	The detainee's name was found on a list recovered during a raid on a suspected safe house in Karachi, Pakistan.
7.	One of detainee's known aliases was on a list of captured al Qaida members that was discovered on a computer hard drive associated with a senior al Qaida member.
8.	The detainee's name was recovered from a collection of miscellaneous letters and other papers in a suspected al Qaida member's house in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

d.

Other Relevant Data

1.	The detainee claims that his passport was stolen while in Afghanistan.
2.	The detainee was designated by the Saudi Ministry of Interior, General Directorate of Investigations, (Mabahith), as being a high priority target.

4.

The following primary factors favor release or transfer:

a.	The detainee said if he were released he would go back to Saudi Arabia to continue his laundry business and raise his family.
b.	The detainee has stated Usama Bin Laden was a "bad man", but did not know of him until after the September 11 attacks. While he has no feelings for those lost in the twin towers, he felt sad about the loss of lives. He said those types of attacks are not a good reflection on Muslims.

5.

You will be afforded a meaningful opportunity to be heard and to present information to the Board; this includes an opportunity to be physically present at the proceeding. The Assisting Military Officer (AMO) will assist you in reviewing all relevant and reasonably available unclassified information regarding your case. The AMO is not an advocate for or against continued detention, nor may the AMO form a confidential relationship with you or represent you in any other matter.