User:Geo Swan/working/Summary of Evidence memos/pg418

This memo was released in March of 2005.^[1] The allegations this detainee faced were:

a. The detainee is a member of al Qaida and is associated with the Taliban:

1. During July 2001, the detainee traveled from Saudi Arabia, through Pakistan, where he stayed in a Taliban house, then on to Qandahar, finally arriving in Kabul, Afghanistan.
2. While in Kabul, Afghanistan, detainee stated that he worked at the direction of the al Wafa organization.
3. The nongovernmental organization 'Wafa' reportedly is believed to possibly be a terrorist organization and may have had connections to Usama bin Ladin and Afghan Mujahedin.
4. The al Wafa organization has been identified as a terrorist organization.
5. The al Wafa organization has been identified as a terrorist organization on the U.S. State Department's Terrorist Exclusion List.
6. The detainee's name appears on a list of Arabs incarcerated in Pakistan and this list belonged to a suspected member of al Qaida.
7. The detainee's name appears on a list of probable al Qaida members.
8. The detainee stated that as fighting neared, he fled Kabul prior to being arrested by Pakistani authorities as he was trying to cross the border into Pakistan.

References

1. CSRT Summary of Evidence memoranda (.pdf) released in March 2005, Combatant Status Review Tribunals - October 1 2004 - page 219