Abdul Salaam is a citizen of Afghanistan, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.<ref name=DoDList> list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, April 20 2006</ref> His detainee ID number is 826.
Salaam's entry in the list of all the detainees names, released on May 15 2006, estimates that Salaam was born in 1975, in Birmal, Afghanistan.

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 a 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 administration's definition of an enemy combatant.

Salaam chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.<ref name=CsrtSalaam> Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdul Salaam'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 23-34</ref>

allegations

The allegations against Salaam were:
:a The detainee is associated with the Taliban and / or al Qaida.
:#In 2002, the detainee admitted he traveled to Pakistan to purchase a Kalashnikov.
:#The detainee traveled between Afghanistan and Pakistan using routed that did not require a passport.
:#The detainee has been involved with a money transfer process between Afghanistan, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates.
:#The detainee opened a Hawala business located in Bermal, Afghanistan, which as suspected ties to al Qaida.
:#Two significant customers of the detainee’s Hawala have suspect links to al Qaida.
:#The detainee was arrested with an individual whose brother is reported to be a local Pakistan al Qaeda leader.
:#The detainee’s brother is a suspected senior Taliban financial facilitator.
:#The detainee was arrested with several contracts/documents, one of which was executed by Taliban authorities.
:#The detainee is suspected of having connections to, and knowledge of, a local arms dealer, Faix Muhammad.
:#The detainee was arrested during a sweep of the Bermal Town Bazaar, in which his brother, a suspected al Qaida money transfer agent was also apprehended.

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