People from Medina - Mazin Salih Musaid Al Awfi (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mazin Salih Musaid al Awfi is a Saudi Arabian citizen who was detained in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 154. The Department of Defense reports that he was born on August 4, 1979, in Medina, Saudi Arabia Musaid's name came to light after Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered the Department of Defense was to release documents from the Guantanamo detainees's Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The Detroit Free Press noted him as one of the detainees who was held, in part, because he was wearing a Casio F91W digital watch. The Bush administration asserted that: the protections of the Geneva Conventions did not extend to captured prisoners who are not members of the regular Afghan armed force nor meet the criteria for prisoner of war for voluntary forces.Critics argued the Conventions obliged the U.S. to conduct competent tribunals to determine the status of prisoners. Subsequently, the U.S. Department of Defense instituted Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRTs), to determine whether detainees met the new definition of an "enemy combatant". "Enemy combatant" was defined by the U.S. Department of Defense as: an individual who was part of, or supporting, the Taliban, or al-Qaeda forces, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners. This includes any person who commits a belligerent act or has directly supported hostilities in aid of enemy armed forces.The CSRTs are not bound by the rules of evidence that would normally apply in civilian court, and the governments evidence is presumed to be genuine and accurate. From July 2004 through March 2005, CSRTs w... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4631463