User:Geo Swan/working/Summary of Evidence memos/pg541



This memo was released in April of 2005.[1]

The allegations this detainee faced were:

a. The detainee is associated with al Qaida or the Taliban forces.
  1. The detainee, a ####### national, traveled to Afghanistan in 1999 via Syria; Turkey and Iran; finally arriving in Kabul, Afghanistan.
  2. The detainee sent for his family in July 2001 and they arrived in Kabul Afghanistan via a Taliban airline plane.
  3. The detainee was on a list of captured Mujahidin members.
  4. The detainee allowed Arab fighters to stay in his house.
  5. The detainee was identified by a senior al Qaida operative as reportedly being part of a terrorist groop.
  6. The detainee and his family departed Jalalabad heading towards the Pakistan border as the situation escalated.
  7. The detainee and others were turned over to the Pakistani police and were arrested.
  8. The detainee was in possession of 100 Saudi riyals and approximately 3,000-5,000 Pakistani rupees.
  9. The detainee escaped from custody when some prisoners overpowered the guards and flipped a transport vehicle.
  10. The detainee and others were recaptured by the Pakistani police.
  11. The detainee was in possession of a Casio watch -- a model which has been used in bombing linked to al Qaida and radical Islamic terrorist improvised explosive devices.
  12. The detainee has been identified as being affiliated with al Qaida or other Islamic extremist groups.
  1. CSRT Summary of Evidence memoranda (.pdf) released in April 2005, Combatant Status Review Tribunals - October 5 2004 - page 66