User:Geo Swan/Guantanamo/not ready yet/Ahmed Adnan Muhammad Ajam

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Ahmed Adnan Muhammad Ajam
Detained at Guantanamo
Other name(s) Abu Rawda, Ahmed Adnan Ahjam
ISN326
Charge(s)No charge, held in extrajudicial detention

Ahmed Adnan Muhammad Ajam is a Syrian who is currently held in Guantanamo.[1]

One of the justifications for holding Ajam was that his name was found on suspicious lists. But his name was the official documents spell his name multiple inconsistent ways, and it is unclear which name was found on that suspicious list.

Ajam arrived at Guantanamo on June 14, 2002.[2] There has been no indication that he has been released.[3] In 2009 and 2010 several European countries accepted Guantanamo captives who have been cleared for release, but did not release their identity.

Following his third annual Administrative Review Board hearing in June 21st 2007 Gordon R. England, the "Designated Civilian Official" cleared Ajam for transfer from Guantanamo.[4][5]

According to Carol Rosenberg, reporting for the McClatchy News Service, on January 21, 2009, Ajam was one three Guantanamo captives who US District Court Judge Reggie Walton ordered to be released into the United States.[6][7] Ajam was one of the first Guantanamo captives to ordered released in the USA.

Medical records[edit]

On March 16 2007 the Department of Defense published records of the captives' height and weights.[8] Ajam's weight was recorded 41 times from his arrival at Guantanamo on June 14th, 2002, and his final published weigh-in, on November 19th, 2006.[9] His height was recorded as 68.5 inches, making the healthy range for his weight between 123 and 166 pounds. Ajam's weight weight records shows a precipitous drop of 63 pounds, from 178 to 115 pounds, between October and November of 2004, and a gain of 63 pounds the next month. October 2004 is the only time his weight was below the healthy range. He dropped eighteen pounds, from 161 to 143 pounds, between September 18th and September 30th, 2006. He gained 23 pounds by his next weigh-in on October 18th, 2006. His weight was within the healthy range on seven of his weigh-ins. The remaining 33 weigh-ins showed him as above the healthy range. His highest recorded weight was 192 pounds.

Habeas corpus[edit]

Ahmed Adnan Muhammad Ajam's weight showed several precipitous gaines and losses.

Ajam's was one of the captives included in Civil Action No. 05-cv-2386.

Following the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Boumediene v. Bush, re-instating captives' access to the US justice system Ajam's habeas was renewed by David S. Marshall, a lawyer from Washington State, who has traveled to Guantanamo to meet him three times.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. Retrieved 2006-05-15.
  2. ^ Sonia Saini, Almerindo Ojeda. "Heights, weights, and in-processing dates". Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas. Retrieved 2009-12-21. mirror
  3. ^ Margot Williams (2008-11-03). "Guantanamo docket: Ahmed Adnan Ahjam". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-10-17. As of Oct. 14, 2010, he has been held at Guantánamo for eight years four months.
  4. ^ OARDEC (2007-09-23). "Administrative Review Board assessment and recommendation ICO ISN 326" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. p. 48. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
  5. ^ OARDEC (2007-06-21). "Classified Record of Proceedings and basis of Administrative Review Board recommendation for ISN 326" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. pp. 49-56. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
  6. ^ Carol Rosenberg (2009-01-21). "Guantanamo order foresees some detainees coming to U.S." McClatchy News Service. Archived from the original on 2010-03-17. The Bush administration has lost several habeas cases in federal district court after judges have concluded there was little real evidence against the petitioners. The three men in the current cases -- Karim Bostan, an Afghan, Abu Rawda, a Syrian, and Abdul Aziz Naji, an Algerian -- were captured in Pakistan and accused of being affiliated with al Qaida.
  7. ^ "Judge grants delay in Gitmo trials". United Press International. 2009-01-21. Archived from the original on 2010-03-17. Late Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton in Washington granted the unopposed request, saying in his order "there is good cause to grant the relief" of a delay and canceling hearings in the cases of Karim Bostan, Abu Rawda and Abdul Aziz Naji.
  8. ^ JTF-GTMO (2007-03-16). "Measurements of Heights and Weights of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba". Department of Defense. Retrieved 2008-12-22. mirror
  9. ^ JTF-GTMO (2007-03-16). "Measurements of Heights and Weights of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: ISNs 323-494" (PDF). Department of Defense. Retrieved 2008-12-22. mirror
  10. ^ David S. Marshall (2008-09-10). "Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation: Doc 404 -- Notice of joinder" (PDF). United States Department of Justice. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
  11. ^ David S. Marshall (2008-09-25). "Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation: Doc 522 -- Petitioner Abu Rawda's motion for more time to submit authorization" (PDF). United States Department of Justice. Retrieved 2010-03-17. mirror
  12. ^ David S. Marshall (2008-09-10). "Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation: Doc 827 -- Affidavit of David S. Marshall, showing authorization" (PDF). United States Department of Justice. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
  13. ^ David S. Marshall (2008-10-30). "Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation: Doc 882" (PDF). United States Department of Justice. Retrieved 2010-03-17.
  14. ^ Gail Pruit (2008-11-15). "Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation: Doc 1012" (PDF). United States Department of Justice. Retrieved 2010-03-17.
  15. ^ David S. Marshall (2008-12-31). "Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation: Doc 1439" (PDF). United States Department of Justice. Retrieved 2010-03-17.
  16. ^ David S. Marshall (2009-01-26). "Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation: Doc 1535" (PDF). United States Department of Justice. Retrieved 2010-03-17.

External links[edit]

  1. "Abdelhadi Faraj, Prisoner Number 329 at Guantanamo Bay". Retrieved 2014-02. Detainee stayed at the Syrian Guesthouse for over a year. Also staying at the guesthouse were Moammer Badawi Dokhan, aka (Abu Abdallah al-Suri), ISN US9SY-000317DP (SY-317); Ahmed Adnan Muhammad Ajam, aka (Abu Rawda al-Suri), ISN US9SY-000326DP (SY-326); Ali Husein Muhammad Shaaban, aka (Yaqub al-Suri), ISN US9SY-000327DP (SY-327); Masum Abdah Muhammad, aka (Bilal al-Kurdi), ISN US9SY-000330DP (SY-330); and an individual named Usama. Abu Muaz al-Suri, aka (Abdallah al-Shami), ISN US9SY-001454DP (SY1454, escaped), rented and operated the Syrian Guesthouse. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. Taegan Goddard (2013-08-05). "New Guantanamo Challenge Questions Congressional Power". Roll call. Retrieved 2014-03-30. Lyle Denniston looks at the latest challenge to detention policies at the Guantanamo Bay military facility, featuring "a Syrian man who has been cleared by the Obama Administration to leave the military prison on the island of Cuba has filed a sweeping new constitutional challenge in federal court to congressional restrictions on his release."{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. "Presidential paradox". 2013-07-12. Retrieved 2014-02. One of the newer filings from a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Ahmed Adnan Ajam, is honestly quite fascinating, and I recommend reading the Lawfare post about it, even if it's quite brief. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. "11 Years and Counting: Profiles of Men Detained at Guantánamo" (PDF). Center for Constitutional Rights. Retrieved 2014-02. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. Lyle Denniston (2013-08-02). "Broad new challenge to detention". Scotusblog. Archived from the original on 2013-10-15. Retrieved 2014-03-29. Seeking his own release from Guantanamo Bay but also fully defending presidential power to decide detention policy without interference from Congress, a Syrian man who has been cleared by the Obama Administration to leave the military prison on the island of Cuba has filed a sweeping new constitutional challenge in federal court to congressional restrictions on his release. In papers publicly released on Friday, with some details deleted, lawyers for Ahmed Adnan Ajam asked a federal judge to rule that his eleven-year captivity must end.
  6. Steve Scher, Amina Al-Sadi (2013-12-31). "Indefinite Stay For Guantanamo Detainees". KUOW. Retrieved 2014-02. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. Lauren Bateman (2013-08-17). "Detainee Challenges Constitutionality of NDAA Transfer Restrictions". Lawfare. Archived from the original on 2013-09-17. Retrieved 2014-03-29. I've been waiting for a while for a detainee to make this argument: The transfer provisions of the NDAA violate the Commander in Chief clause. The brief itself is not yet public, but there's an allusion to it in this filing in the habeas case of Guantanamo detainee Ahmed Adnan Ajam—which seeks leave to make public an earlier document that sought to amend his habeas petition:
  8. Michael Ramsey (2013-08-06). "Ajam v. Obama: The President's Power to Make Peace (with One Person)". Center for Constitutional Rights. Archived from the original on 2013-08-23. Retrieved 2014-03-29. Ajam might want to cite this article; but see here. However, it may be -- though I haven't double checked -- that all the congressional restrictions at stake here are in the form of restrictions on spending, to which I'm much more sympathetic, constitutionally speaking. As I see it, the difference is that Congress lacks an enumerated power to make tactical command decisions, but it does have the power to limit spending.
  9. Robert Sanger (2013-09). "New Legal Challenge to Guantanamo Confinement" (PDF). Criminal Justice. pp. 12, 13, 14, 15. Retrieved 2014-03-29. The individual who is the subject of this article and the new Petition, Ahmed Adnan Ajam, is still alive. He has been a prisoner at Guantanamo since June 14, 2002 under difficult conditions. Records released on Wikileaks include the actual government weight chart for Mr. Ajam which reflects that his weight has fluctuated wildly, dropping, in 2004, 115 pounds within what appears to be a two or three month period. Records from the hunger strike of 2006 are incomplete but show another significant drop in his weight by November of 2006.4 The records of the government recording his condition in March of 2008 stated that, "Detainee is in fair health." {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. "Read The Center For Constitutional Rights' "Faces Of Guantánamo" Reports – OpEd". Citizen Detention. 2012-01-23. Archived from the original on 2014-03-30. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
  11. Benjamin Wittes (2013-07-11). "A Commander in Chief Challenge to the Constitutionality of the Transfer Restrictions". Lawfare. Archived from the original on 2014-03-20. Retrieved 2014-03-29. Ajam's case takes a new approach to Guantanamo habeas litigation: Ajam challenges Section 1028 of the National Defense Authorization Act—the section which imposes detainee transfer restrictions on the President—as an unconstitutional Congressional intrusion into plenary Presidential foreign policy power. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 2014-03-30 suggested (help)
  12. "RECENT LEGISLATION" (PDF). Harvard Law Review. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-03-30. Retrieved 2014-03-29. More recently, Ahmed Adnan Ajam became the first Guantanamo detainee to challenge the constitutionality of his detention, partly on the same ground that section encroaches on the President's prerogative to conclude detainee transfers.
  13. "July 4, 2013, TD Blog Interview with David Marshall". The Talking Dog. 2013-07-04. Archived from the original on 2013-12-09. Retrieved 2014-03-29. My client is Syrian, and, although Arabic transliteration is not always perfect, I spell his name Ahmed Adnan Ajam.
  14. David S. Marshall (2013-07-01). "David Marshall Challenges Constitutionality of Guantanamo Transfer Restrictions". Law News. Archived from the original on 2013-12008. Retrieved 2014-03-29. David's client at Guantanamo,Ahmed Adnan Ajam of Syria, has always denied being an enemy belligerent. The newly-filed motion says that question never need be decided because the President wants to transfer Mr. Ajam to freedom and, but for the transfer restrictions, would already have done so. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |archivedate= (help)
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