Abdul Al-Rahim Ghulam Rabbani is a citizen of Pakistan, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1]

His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 1460. American Intelligence analysts estimated that Rabbani was born in 1969.

As of December 10, 2009, Abdul Rabbani Abd al Rahim Abu Rahman has been held at Guantanamo for five years three months.^[2]

[edit] Detention in the "the salt pit"

According to Laid Saidi, Rabbani, and his brother, Mohammed Ahmad Ghulam Rabbani, were being held in the CIA black site known as "the salt pit" at the same time he was.^{[citation needed]}

Combatant Status Review

[edit] Summary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Abu Rahim Moulana Gulam Rabbani's Combatant Status Review Tribunal on November 10, 2004.^[8] The memo listed the following allegations:

A. The detainee is a member of al Qaida and participated in military operatins against the United States and its coalition partners:

1. The detainee was a member of al Qaida and was a facilitator for Khalid Shaykh Mohammed for three years.
2. The detainee was a member of a ten-to-twelve member al Qaida cell planning "car bomb" attacks against U.S. forces.
3. The detainee was a well known Karachi-based al Qaida facilitator who had transported many al Qaida members from safehouses to the Karachi apartment and would bring money for them to purchase food and would bring clothes, suitcases and other travel gear for the al Qaida members preparing to leave.
4. When captured, the detainee was carrying documents that led authorities to two additional al Qaida safehouses where al Qaida members were found and arrested.
5. The detainee either operated or resided at six al Qaida safehouses in Karachi with a senior al Qaida lieutenant.
6. The detainee knew and associated with Senior al Qaida operatives.

[edit] Habeas petition

A habeas submission was submitted on his behalf to US District Court Judge Ricardo M. Urbina.^[9] In response, on December 13, 2005 the Department of Defense published a fourteen page dossier of unclassified documents arising from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

His Summary of Evidence memo was drafted on November 10, 2004.^[9]

The documents indicate a USAF Major, his Personal Representative, recorded on the detainee election form that they met for half an hour on 17 November 2004 to discuss his upcoming Tribunal.^[9] His Personal Representative's notes state he chose not to attend his Tribunal.

Tribunal panel 21 convened 23 November 2004 and confirmed his "enemy combatant status". The decision memo drafted by the Tribunal states it reached this conclusion based on classified evidence.^[9] Unusually this Tribunal was not convened in Guantanamo, and the Personal Representative who met with him was not present. The Department of Defense has not offered an explanation as to why this Tribunal was not convened in Guantanamo.

His name is spelled both as "Abdul Al-Rahim Ghulam Rabbani" and "Abu Rahim Moulana Gulam Rabbani" in the document.^[9]

[edit] Hunger strike

Rabbani and his brother participated in the hunger strike that started on August 8, 2005.^[10]

[edit] Mohammed Aman's witness request

During his Combatant Status Review Tribunal Mohammed Aman requested the testimony of someone named "Gulam Rabani".^[11] His Tribunal's President ruled that Gulam Rabani's testimony was relevant. But the President said the Afghan government had not responded to request to locate him—so his testimony was ruled "not reasonably available".

[edit] Administrative Review Board

Captives whose CSRT labelled them "enemy combatants" were scheduled for annual Administrative Review Board hearings. These hearings were designed to judge whether the captive still posed a threat if repatriated to their home country.^[12] Three Summary of Evidence memos were prepared for his annual review board hearings in 2005, 2006 and 2007.^[13][14][15]

[edit] References