Abdul Bagi

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Abdul Bagi

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Abdul Bagi is a citizen of Afghanistan, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf
title=List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2006-05-15
quote=] Bagi's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 963.American intelligence analysts estimate Bagi was born in 1972, in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

ummary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Abdul Bagi's Combatant Status Review Tribunal.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000600-000699.pdf#91
page=page 91
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Bagi, Abdul
publisher=United States Department of Defense
author=OARDEC
date=4 November 2004
accessdate=2008-07-29
quote= ]

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Response to the factors

*Bagi denied being involved in the attack. He denied being aware of the attack. He denied that he ever admitted any knowledge or involvement in the attack.
*Bagi denied being a member of the Taliban. He said he was an orphan, and as the oldest sibling he had the responsibility to raise his younger siblings. This responsibility would not have allowed him to join the Taliban.
*Bagi acknowledged hearing weapons fire. Some time after the firing ceased he and his uncle mounted his uncle's tractor and headed to the bazaar to buy oil and oil filters.
*Bagi acknowledged that he had heard that Bagi was now working for the Taliban, but he knew nothing about Wahed's men, or Wahed's action. Bagi denied that Wahed was from his village. He was from a nearby neighboring village.
*Bagi acknowledged that he owned a green jacket. He said that it was a common color of jacket in his area. The jackets were commonly available in local shops.
*Bagi said he was captured in front of his house. He had just emerged from his house. He was not riding a motorcycle, or a passenger in a taxi. Bagi pointed out that his house was on the main road, and thousands of vehicles went by every day. Bagi expressed skepticism that the ambushers would have made the mistake of using the main road, which was sure to have roadblocks on it, to escape from the scene.
*Bagi acknowledge calling his uncle, Baridad and Alif Mohammed to testify on his behalf.
*Bagi challenged the idea that Alif Mohammed was a military commander. He said Alif Mohammed could not support his own family, and had to beg for food. He said Alif Mohammed was a drug addict. His drug addiction had brought the wrath of the Taliban down on him, and they had beaten him so badly they came close to killing him.
*Bagi disputed the allegation that his neighbor Baridad suffered hearing loss from weapons fire. Baridad had been hard of hearing since childhood.

Response to Board questions

Board recommendations

In early September 2007 the Department of Defense released two heavily redacted memos, from his Board, to Gordon England, the Designated Civilian Official.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Decision_memos_000678-000765.pdf#15
title=Administrative Review Board assessment and recommendation ICO ISN 963
date=December 21 2005
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-07-30
pages=page 16] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Decision_memos_000678-000765.pdf#16
title=Classified Record of Proceedings and basis of Administrative Review Board recommendation for ISN 963
date=26 August 2005
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-07-30
pages=pages 17-23] The Board's recommendation was unanimousThe Board's recommendation was redacted.England authorized his transfer on
December 23 2005.

The Board asserted that Abdul Bagi continued to be a threat.

Paragraphs that were not redacted stated:

Current location

As of March 18 2008 the "Washington Post" lists Abdul Bagi as still in detention in Guantanamo.cite news
url=http://projects.washingtonpost.com/guantanamo/#afghanistan
title=Names of the Detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
publisher=Washington Post
accessdate=2008-03-18
quote=]

ee also

*Rahmatullah
*Alif Mohammed
*Baridad

References