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Bashir Al-Marwalah was apprehended by a combined force of Pakistani security officials and a CIA
black site team, on 11 September 2002—the anniversary of al Qaeda's attack within the USA.
He and five other individuals spent slightly more than a month in CIA custody at
the Salt Pit, prior to being transferred to Guantanamo. Guantanamo analysts maintained the narrative that these six were an al Qaeda
sleeper cell they called the "Karachi Six".[7][8][9] However, that claim had been dropped by his 2016
Periodic Review Board hearing.
As of December 3, 2009, Bashir Nasir Ali Al-Marwalah had been held at Guantanamo for seven years two months.[10]
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.[12]
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:[16]
Bashir Nasir Ali Al-Marwalah was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... are Al Qaeda fighters."[16]
Bashir Nasir Ali Al-Marwalah was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... traveled to Afghanistan for jihad."[16]
Bashir Nasir Ali Al-Marwalah was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges that the following detainees stayed in Al Qaeda, Taliban or other guest- or safehouses|stayed in Al Qaeda, Taliban, or other guest- or safehouses."[16]
Bashir Nasir Ali Al-Marwalah was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... took military or terrorist training in Afghanistan."[16]
Bashir Nasir Ali Al-Marwalah was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... fought for the Taliban."[16]
Bashir Nasir Ali Al-Marwalah was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges that the following detainees were captured under circumstances that strongly suggest belligerency."[16]
Bashir Nasir Ali Al-Marwalah was listed as one of the captives who was an "al Qaeda operative".[16]
Bashir Nasir Ali Al-Marwalah was listed as one of "36 [captives who] openly admit either membership or significant association with Al Qaeda, the Taliban, or some other group the government considers militarily hostile to the United States."[16]
Bashir Nasir Ali Al-Marwalah was listed as one of the captives who had admitted "fighting on behalf of Al Qaeda or the Taliban."[16]
References
^"Archived copy"(PDF). www.defenselink.mil. Archived from
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^
Britain Eakin (2016-06-30).
"Big-Brother Figure Makes Case for Gitmo Release".
Courthouse News Service. Archived from
the original on 2016-07-02. Retrieved 2016-07-06. Though the United States initially suspected that the six were involved with an al-Qaida cell plotting a future attack, the case has failed to get off the ground for 14 years for lack of evidence. As documented in the detainee's unclassified profile, U.S. has tempered its claims about the Karachi 6 in recent years, describing them now as low-level al-Qaida fighters.
^Carol Rosenberg (2013-06-17).
"FOAI suit reveals Guantanamo's 'indefinite detainees'".
Miami Herald.
Archived from the original on 2014-11-21. Retrieved 2016-08-18. The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg, with the assistance of the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic at the Yale Law School, filed suit in federal court in Washington D.C., in March for the list under the Freedom of Information Act. The students, in collaboration with Washington attorney Jay Brown, represented Rosenberg in a lawsuit that specifically sought the names of the 46 surviving prisoners.
^
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.