Ahmad was named inconsistently on official documents released by the
Department of Defense.
He was named Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmad in the
Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 21 September 2004.[7]
He was named Majid Abdu Ahmed on the
Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his first annual Administrative Review Board, on November 13, 2005.[8]
He was named Majid M Abdu Ahmed on the
Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his second annual Administrative Review Board, on September 26, 2006.[9]
Official status reviews
Originally the
BushPresidency asserted that captives apprehended in the "
war on terror" were not covered by the
Geneva Conventions, and could be held indefinitely, without charge, and without an open and transparent review of the justifications for their detention.[10]
In 2004, the
United States Supreme Court ruled, in
Rasul v. Bush, that Guantanamo captives were entitled to being informed of the allegations justifying their detention, and were entitled to try to refute them.
Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants
Scholars at the
Brookings Institution, led by
Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations:[14]
Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmad was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... are
fighters for the Taliban."[14]
Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmad was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... traveled to Afghanistan for jihad."[14]
Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmad was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... fought for the Taliban."[14]
Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmad was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... were at Tora Bora."[14]
Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmad was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges that the following detainees were captured under circumstances that strongly suggest belligerency."[14]
Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmad was listed as one of the captives who was an "
al Qaeda operative".[14]
Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmad was listed as one of the "82 detainees made no statement to CSRT or ARB tribunals or made statements that do not bear materially on the military’s allegations against them."[14]
Habeas corpus petition
He has had a
habeas corpus petition released on his behalf.:[15]
A dossier of unclassified documents from his tribunal was released in 2005.
Formerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment
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ab"U.S. military reviews 'enemy combatant' use".
USA Today. 2007-10-11.
Archived from the original on 2007-10-23. Critics called it an overdue acknowledgment that the so-called Combatant Status Review Tribunals are unfairly geared toward labeling detainees the enemy, even when they pose little danger. Simply redoing the tribunals won't fix the problem, they said, because the system still allows coerced evidence and denies detainees legal representation.