Adil Kamil al-Wadi

Adil Kamil Abdullah Al Wadi is a citizen of Bahrain who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] Al Wadi's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 60. American intelligence analysts estimate that Al Wadi was born in 1964, in Muharraq, Bahrain.

Adil Kamil Abdullah Al Wadi
Born1974 (age 48–49)
Muharraq, Bahrain
Detained at Guantanamo
Other name(s) Adel Kamel Abdulla Hajee
ISN60
Charge(s)No charge (held in extrajudicial detention)
StatusRepatriated

Adil Kamil Abdullah al Wadi was captured near the Pakistan-Afghan border and was transferred to Bahrain on November 4, 2005.[2]

Combatant Status Review Tribunal
Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a 3 x 5 meter trailer. The captive sat with his hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor.[3][4] Three chairs were reserved for members of the press, but only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were observed.[5]

Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions from detainees from the war on terror. This policy was challenged before the Judicial branch. Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct competent tribunals to determine whether detainees are, or are not, entitled to the protections of prisoner of war status.

Subsequently, the Department of Defense instituted the Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The Tribunals, however, were not authorized to determine whether the detainees were lawful combatants—rather they were merely empowered to make a recommendation as to whether the detainee had previously been correctly determined to match the Bush administration's definition of an enemy combatant.

Al Wadi chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[6]

Allegations

The allegations Al Wadi faced, in the "Summary of Evidence" presented to his Tribunal were:[7]

a. The detainee associated with al Qaeda:
  1. The Detainee traveled to Afghanistan via Iran in late September or early October 2001.
b. The detainee participated in military operations against the coalition.
  1. The Detainee was a fighter at Tora Bora.
  2. Detainee was captured by the Pakistani military after leaving Afghanistan.

Administrative Review Board hearing
Hearing room where Guantanamo detainee's annual Administrative Review Board hearings convened for captives whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal had already determined they were an "enemy combatant".[8]

Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings. The Administrative Review Boards weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".

They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat—or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free.

The factors for and against continuing to detain %s were among the 121 that the Department of Defense released on March 3, 2006.[9]

The following primary factors favor continued detention:

a. Intent
  1. The Detainee traveled to Afghanistan via Iran in late September or early October 2001.
b. Commitment
  1. The Detainee was a fighter at Tora Bora.
  2. The detainee has been disruptive and aggressive while in detention.
c. Other Relevant Data
  1. Detainee was captured by the Pakistani military after leaving Afghanistan.

The following primary factors favor release or transfer:

a. The detainee denies being a member of al Qaida.
b. The detainee denies fighting in the Tora Bora region.
c. The detainee cites that he was not captured by the Pakistani authorities; but, he turned himself in.

Transcript

Al Wadi chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.[10]

Release

Al Wadi, and the other five Bahrainis, are represented by Joshua Colangelo-Bryan.

The Gulf Daily News announced on November 5, 2005, that Adel had been released, and was one of three Bahraini detainees on their way home.[11][12]

On Thursday August 23, 2007, the Gulf Daily News reported that Bahraini Member of Parliament Mohammed Khalid had called for the Bahrain government to provide financial compensation to the released men.[13]

Op-ed

Kamel Abdulla wrote an op-ed about his experiences in Guantanamo in The Media Line, on December 28, 2006.[14]

He wrote:[14]

  • The prison was under the control of Psychiatrists who tried their best to drive the captives crazy.
  • The captives weren't allowed sunlight. Their cells were under constant illumination from artificial light.

McClatchy News Service interview

On June 15, 2008, the McClatchy News Service published a series of articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo detainees.[15] Adil Kamil al Wadi was one of the former detainees who had an article profiling him.[16]

In his McClatchy interview, Adil Kamil al Wadi reported religious persecution in the Kandahar detention facility and in Guantanamo.[16] He gave a detailed account of Koran desecration.

The McClatchy article quoted Mark Sullivan, Adil Kamil al Wadi's habeas corpus attorney, who had seen the classified allegations against him:[16]

There was an absolute lack of evidence that would disprove anything he said. There was no credible evidence.

You have stories like Adil's: It sounds plausible, but if you were of a suspicious mind you could say it's vague ... and we don't have any corroboration. But what we keep coming back to is what does the government have in the way of proof?

See also

References
  1. OARDEC (2006-05-15). "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
  2. "Adil Kamil Abdullah al Wadi - The Guantánamo Docket". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2011-07-10.
  3. Lewis, Neil A. (2004-11-08). "Guantánamo Prisoners Getting Their Day, but Hardly in Court". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-01-20.
  4. Inside the Guantánamo Bay hearings: Barbarian "Justice" dispensed by KGB-style "military tribunals" Archived 2016-03-09 at the Wayback Machine, Financial Times, December 11, 2004
  5. "Annual Administrative Review Boards for Enemy Combatants Held at Guantanamo Attributable to Senior Defense Officials". United States Department of Defense. March 6, 2007. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-22.
  6. Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Adil Kamil Abdullah Al Wadi's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 55-76
  7. Allegations, found on page 30 of Al Wadi's, Combatant Status Review Tribunal
  8. Spc Timothy Book (March 10, 2006). "Review process unprecedented" (PDF). The Wire (JTF-GTMO). p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-12.
  9. Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf) Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine of Adil Kamil Abdullah Al Wadi Administrative Review Board - pages 53–54 - January 28, 2005
  10. "Summarized Administrative Review Board Detainee Statement" (PDF). U.S. Department of Defense. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-09-01. Retrieved 2023-01-20 – via archive.org.
  11. Free, at last!, Gulf Daily News, November 5, 2005
  12. Three Bahraini Guantanamo detainees return home, WFOR, November 5, 2005
  13. Geoffrey Bew (August 23, 2007). "Bay victims may get BD50,000". Gulf Daily News. Archived from the original on October 31, 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-23.
  14. Adel Kamel Abdulla (December 28, 2006). "Surviving after Guantanemo Bay". The Media Line. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved 2006-12-30. - mirror Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  15. Tom Lasseter (June 15, 2008). "Guantanamo Inmate Database: Sarajuddin". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on March 4, 2009. Retrieved 2008-06-16. mirror
  16. Tom Lasseter (June 15, 2008). "Guantanamo Inmate Database: Adil Kamil al Wadi". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on 20 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
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