User:Geo Swan/Guantanamo/Mohamman Daoud

Geo Swan/Guantanamo/Mohamman Daoud
Arrested	2001 Pakistan border Northern Alliance
Citizenship	Afghanistan
Detained at	Guantanamo
ISN	527
Charge(s)	no charge
Status	repatriated following his CSRT on 2004-09-18
CSRT Summary	CSRT convened

Mohamman Daoud is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.

Mohamman Daoud is notable for the timing of his repatriation. On August 1 2004, following the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush, the Department of Defense started convening Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The Department of Defense convened CSR Tribunals for 558 captives from August 1 2004 through January 2005. During this period the DoD released: 35 Pakistani captives, on September 17 2004; 11 Afghan captives, on September 18, 2004; and three Bahraini captives, on November 3 2004. Only three of the 35 Pakistani captives had a CSR Tribunal prior to their repatriation. Of the 11 Afghan captives only one other man had a CSR Tribunal prior to his repatriation.

Combatant Status Review

Initially the Bush administration asserted they could withhold the protections of the Geneva Conventions from captives in the War on Terror, while critics argued the Conventions obliged the United States to conduct competent tribunals to determine the status of prisoners. Subsequently the Department of Defense instituted Combatant Status Review Tribunals, to determine whether the captives met the new definition of an "enemy combatant".

Detainees do not have the right to a lawyer before the CSRTs or to access the evidence against them. The CSRTs are not bound by the rules of evidence that would apply in court, and the government’s evidence is presumed to be “genuine and accurate.” However, unclassified summaries of relevant evidence may be provided to the detainee and each detainee has an opportunity to present “reasonably available” evidence and witnesses.

From July 2004 through March 2005, a CSRT was convened to make a determination whether each captive had been correctly classified as an "enemy combatant". Geo Swan/Guantanamo/Mohamman Daoud was among the one-third of prisoners for whom there was no indication they chose to participate in their tribunals.

In the landmark case Boumediene v. Bush, the U.S. Supreme Court found that CSRTs are not an adequate substitute for the constitutional right to challenge one's detention in court, in part because they do not have the power to order detainees released. The Court also found that "there is considerable risk of error in the tribunal’s findings of fact."

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for the tribunal, listing the alleged facts that led to his detainment. His memo accused him of the following:

a. The detainee was a member of the Taliban.

1. The detainee was conscripted into the Taliban in June 2001.
2. He was trained for 25 days at a "post" near Imam Saheb, Afghanistan (AF), where he was taught how to fire the Kalashnikov, was given lessons from the Koran and performed servant duties.
3. After training the detainee was issued a Kalashnikov rifle [sic] and two magazine rifles [sic].
4. He performed guard duties at a Taliban training camp.

b. The detainee provided support to the Taliban forces engaged in hostile acts against the United States and its coalition partners.

1. The detainee served as a cook for the Taliban.
2. He was assigned to a post across the river from members of the Northern Alliance.
3. The detainee was captured by the Northern Alliance while hiding in a Taliban vehicle attempting to cross into Pakistan.

Guantanamo Medical records

On 16 March 2007 the Department of Defense published medical records for the captives. Most captives' weight records listed an "inprocess weight", an "inprocess height", and an "inprocess date". But that information was withheld from Mohamman Daoud's file. According to those records his weight was recorded 15 times: June, July, August and November of 2002, and January through August of 2004. According to his records his weight was not recorded at all in 2003. His weight ranged from 133 to 147 pounds.

Further information: Guantanamo weight records

Detainee assessment brief

In April 2011 the whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published detainee assessment briefs from the captive`s secret files. Daoud`s DAB was 3 pages long. Miller recommended release.

http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2011/09/07/wikileaks-and-the-guantanamo-prisoners-released-after-the-tribunals-2004-to-2005-part-three-of-five/