Deleted:Mahrar Rafat Al Quwari
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Mahrar Rafat Al Quwari is a citizen of the West Bank, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.[1] Al Quwari's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 519. The Department of Defense reports that Al Quwari was born on February 18 1965, in Gaza, Palestine.
Scholars at the Brookings Institute, lead by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations[2]:
- Mahrar Rafat Al Quwari was listed as one of the captives who the Wittes team unable to identify as presently cleared for release or transfer.[2]
- Mahrar Rafat Al Quwari was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... are associated with both Al Qaeda and the Taliban."[2]
- Mahrar Rafat Al Quwari was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... took military or terrorist training in Afghanistan."[2]
- Mahrar Rafat Al Quwari was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... fought for the Taliban."[2]
- Mahrar Rafat Al Quwari was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... were at Tora Bora."[2]
- Mahrar Rafat Al Quwari was listed as one of the captives who was an "al Qaeda operative".[2]
- Mahrar Rafat Al Quwari was listed as one of the "34 [captives] admit to some lesser measure of affiliation—like staying in Taliban or Al Qaeda guesthouses or spending time at one of their training camps."[2]
- Mahrar Rafat Al Quwari was listed as one of the captives who had admitted "providing combat support to Al Qaeda or the Taliban."[2]
Al Quwari chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[4]
Testimony
Experienced the "frequent flyer" program
On August 7 2008 the Washington Post reported that the Guantanamo guards defied their orders to discontinue the illegal practice of arbitrarily moving captives multiples times a day to deprive them of sleep.[5] The report stated that Maher Rafat al-Quwari had been one of the captives who was subjected to this practice, called the "frequent flyer program", during his interrogation.
References
- ↑ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15 2006
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Benjamin Wittes, Zaathira Wyne (2008-12-16). "The Current Detainee Population of Guantánamo: An Empirical Study". The Brookings Institute. http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/reports/2008/12/16%20detainees%20wittes/1216_detainees_wittes.pdf. Retrieved 2010-02-16. mirror
- ↑ Summary of Evidence memo (.pdf) prepared for Mahrar Rafat Al Quwari's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - October 6 2004 - page 112
- ↑ OARDEC (date redacted). "Summarized Detainee Statement". United States Department of Defense. pp. pages 1-8. http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_31_2145-2265.pdf#1. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ↑ Josh White (2008-08-07). "Tactic Used After It Was Banned: Detainees at Guantanamo Were Moved Often, Documents Say". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/07/AR2008080703004_pf.html. Retrieved 2008-08-07. "One "cell transfer schedule" for detainee 519 -- Maher Rafat al-Quwari -- shows that he was moved six times a day for 12 days in July 2003, with a four-hour interrogation session in the middle." mirror