Abdullah Bin Omar

Abdullah Bin Omar is a citizen of Tunisia formerly held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 721.Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analystsreport he was born on June 28, 1958, inMassoulta, Tunisia.

He was sentence to 12-year prison term in Tunisia for some involvement with "Front Islamique de Tunisie" in the 1990s but was freed from prison in Tunisia early 2011 “as part of a promise by the interim government to free all political prisoners.”

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

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 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...
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