Abdul Sattar (Guantanamo detainee 10)

Abdul Sattar is a citizen of Pakistan, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba. His Guantanamo detainee ID number is 10. The Department of Defense reports he was born on November 12 1981, in Bumb, Pakistan Bumb, Pakistan.

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a trailer the size of a large RV. The captive sat on a plastic garden chair, with his hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor. Three chairs were reserved for members of the press, but only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were observed.Template:POV-section

Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives 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 a competent tribunals to determine whether captives 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 captives were lawful combatants -- rather they were merely empowered to make a recommendation as to whether the captive had previously been correctly determined to match the Bush administration's definition of an enemy combatant.

Sattar chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

Summary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Abdul Sattar's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on . The memo listed the following allegations against him:

a. Detainee is a member of the Taliban.

1. Prior to September 11, 2001, detainee traveled to Afghanistan for employment and worked as a driver for the Taliban for six to eight months.
2. Detainee transported personnel and material for the Taliban, included cooking oil, ammunition, heavy coats and blankets.

b. Detainee engaged in hostilities against the U.S. or its coalition partners.

1. When the detainee arrived in Bagram, AF to participate in the Jihad, he was issued an [[AK-47] and assigned to guard duty in a bunker.
2. The detainee was transferred to Khvajeh Ghar, where he was stationed in bunkers/fighting positions for over a month.
3. The detainee was in a military convoy with seventy (70) fighters when his convoy was bombed. He fled his truck, but was later captured by villagers and turned over to the Northern Alliance.

Abdul Sattar's testimony

Unlike many other detainee transcripts Abdul Sattar's transcript does not repeat the allegations he faced in the Summary of Evidence.

Sattar testified he wanted to address one of the points in the allegations -- that he was unaware of any link between the group H.U.M. and Al Qaeda.

Sattar testified he had never even heard of al Qaeda until he was captured.