Bader Al Bakri Al Samiri

Bader Al Bakri Al Samiri
is a citizen of Saudi Arabia who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006 American intelligence analysts estimate that he was born in 1972, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. 
Al Samiri's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 274.
==Combatant Status Review Tribunal==
Initially the Bush Presidency 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 recommendation as to whether the captive had previously been correctly determined to match the Bush Presidency's definition of an enemy combatant. 
===Summary of Evidence memo===
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for 
Bader Al Bakri Al Samiri's
Combatant Status Review Tribunal, 
on 13 October 2004.
The memo listed the following allegations against him:
===Transcript===
There is no record that
Bader Al Bakri Al Samiri participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
==Administrative Review Board hearings==
Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings. The Administrative Review Boards weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant". 
They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat—or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free. 
===First annual Administrative Review Board===
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for 
Bader al Bakri Al Samiri's first annual
Administrative Review Board, 
on
7 March 2005.
The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.
The following primary factors favor continued detention
The following primary factors favor release of transfer
====Transcript====
Captive 274 chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.
The Department of Defense released a six page summarized transcript of the hearing.
====Opening statement====
Captive 274 said his name was "Alwad Awath":
:
:My name is Alwad Awath and that is not my name , that is the first thing. Second thing that you read to me and I understood it . Third thing, I do not have any hostility toward any person and would like to whole world to live in peace. Fourth, me leaving Saudi Arabia, it was just for a vacation for a week or two and I wanted to help others any way I could help. I knew this group called Lashkar E Tayyiba, I knew about it by Hash , through a man . He told me about a visit to Pakistan...... If there are other things, I will tell them in other sessions. I do not have anything else. Do you have any questions for me?
Captive 274's Assisting Military Officer prepared additional responses that captive 274 had offered during his pre-hearing interview.
*Captive 274 said his name was "Bader Al Wath Bakri Al Samiri".
*Captive 274 said he was poor and innocent, and that only a small portion of the allegations he faced were true.
*Captive 274 acknowledged traveling from Saudi Arabia to Afghanistan, but denied the other six of the seven allegations in the Commitment section of the Summary of Evidence memo.
*Captive 274 acknowledged being trained on the AK-47 at a Lashkar E Tayyiba training camp, but not mountain hiking, weapons assembly/disassembly, pistols or the G3 rifle.
*Captive 274 denied all three of the allegations under Connections/Associations—that said he was listed on al Qaida documents. He said they couldn't be true.
*Captive 274 denied making the statements attributed to him in all four of the allegations in the section entitled "Intent".
*Captive 274 denied ever threatening any guards.
*Captive 274 denied several of the eleven factors favoring release.
After considerable discussion the Board agreed to transliterate captive 274's name as: "Badr Awath Bakri Alsamiri"
====Response to Board questions====
*Captive 274 replied that he had never fired a rifle in Afghanistan.
*Captive 274 said he traveled to Afghanistan "To visit".
*Captive 274 confirmed his knew was injured during an American aerial bombardment near Jalalabad while he was on his way to Pakistan.
*In reply to the question, "How would you describe your behavior with the guards here", captive 274 replied:
:The guards who treat me well and respect me, I will treat them well and I'll respect them. The ones that is different then that, I will give them by back. I will not talk to them. Because that will cause me problems and I do not want problems.
:The soldiers, they lie about us a lot. They lie a lot about us. They say that incidents happen and it did not happen. I threatened and I spit at somebody, it happens a lot that they write down that we spit, but we did not spit.
*Captive 274's Presiding Officer asked for confirmation that the soldiers he described were soldiers in the Guantanamo guard force, not soldiers in Pakistan. Captive 274 confirmed that they were, and added that: "Their treatment was worst than when we were arrested in Pakistan."
====Press reports====
On April 8, 2005 Adam Brookes or the BBC wrote about being allowed to sit in on an Administrative Review Board hearing.
Brookes had to sign a promise not to publish the captive's name.
This captive faced identical allegations as captive 274.
Brookes account of the questions posed and answers offered during the hearing were identical to those recorded in the official transcript of captive 274's hearing.
Brookes noted that the captive's hands and feet were shackled to the floor.
Brookes noted that none of the Review Board members were lawyers.
Brookes noted that the captive was wearing an orange uniform -- the color issued to non-compliant captives.
Brookes noted that "a broad smile" crossed the captive's face when the allegation that the real purpose of his travel to Afghanistan was to buy hashish. Brookes described this as "his only visible show of emotion."
Brookes commented, at the end of the article:
===Second annual Administrative Review Board===
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for 
Badr Awad Bakri Al-Sumayri's second annual
Administrative Review Board, 
on
20 February 2006.
The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.
The following primary factors favor continued detention
The following primary factors favor release or transfer
====Transcript====
Captive 274 participated in his Board hearing.
In September 2007 the DoD released a 14 page summarized transcript from his 2006 Board hearing.
==Repatriation==
A Saudi named Bakri Awad Bakri al-Sameeri was one of sixteen Saudi captives repatriated from Guantanamo on September 16, 2007.
==References==
Category:Saudi Arabian extrajudicial prisoners of the United States
Category:Guantanamo detainees known to have been released
Category:Living people
Category:Year of birth uncertain
Category:People from Mecca
Category:1972 births