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Summarized Detainee Statement
Tribunal President: Hani Abdul Muslih AI Shu1an, you may now present any evidence you have to the Tribunal and you have the assistance of your Personal Representative in doing so.
Tribunal President: Do you wish to present information to this Tribunal and would you like to make your statement under oath?
Detainee: I do not wish to take the oath, but I will answer the questions.
Tribunal President: Good, you may begin.
In response to allegation 3a, Detainee supported the Taliban and allegation 3a(I), the Detainee arrived in Afghanistan in approximately July 2001, from Yemen via Pakistan.
Detainee: Please repeat that information.
Personal Representative read the allegations to the Detainee again.
Detainee: I do not recall the date that I arrived in Pakistan.
In response to allegation 3a(2), the Detainee resided in Taliban safe houses during his travel to and within Afghanistan.
Detainee: I had to stay in a place that was safe.
Tribunal President: I would just like to remind everyone to speak up, so that the reporter can hear it on the tape.
Detainee: Do you speak Arabic?
Tribunal President: No. but we have to record everything.
Detainee: Fine.
In response to allegation 3a(3), the Detainee traveled to Afghanistan in response to a fatwa for the purpose of fighting coalition forces.
Detainee: I did not say that during the interrogation.
Personal Representative: Do you have more to add to that?
Detainee: I did not go for the fatwa purpose. An interrogator asked me that question, there are other people that go for the purpose offatwa but I did not go there for that purpose.
In response to allegation 3a( 4), the Detainee had in his possession at capture a Casio watch, model # AlS9W, which has been used in bombings linked to al Qaida.
Detainee: I had a Casio watch but don't know the number. Please present the evidence that I used it as an explosive device.
In response to allegation 3a(5), the Detainee was proficient with a Kalashnikov rife. Detainee: Everybody uses that particular weapon. In response to allegation 3b, the Detainee engaged in hostilities against the United States and its coalition partners and allegation 3b(1), the Detainee was armed with an AK-47 rifle.
Detainee: I said that I had this type of weapon, but it's not for any enemy activities or to fire at the coalition.
In response to allegation 3b(2), the Detainee was present in the Tora Bora region during the U. S. air campaign.
Detainee: That's not true, I left that place. To leave Afghanistan or exit Afghanistan there was no other way for me to leave except for that place. I did not stay in the mountain.
In response to allegation 3b(3), the Detainee was captured in Pakistan Dear the Afghanistan border by Pakistani forces.
Detainee: They did not capture me. I turned myself over to them, so I can exit.
Personal Representative: Do you have any final statements you want to tell the Tribunal about the information that says you are a Taliban and that you engaged in hostilities against the United States?
Detainee: I was not doing that.
Personal Representative: That was all there is.
Detainee: That's all I got.
Tribunal President: Would you be willing to answer questions for us?
Detainee: As long as it is related to these accusations I have no problem with that.
Tribunal President; Thank you.
Tribunal President: Personal Representative, do you have any questions for the Detainee?
Personal Representative: No, ma'am.
Tribunal President: Recorder, do you have any questions for the Detainee?
Recorder: No, ma'am.
Tribunal President: Do any Tribunal members have any questions for the Detainee?
Member: Yes, rna' am. Could you please tell us what your purpose was in going to Afghanistan?
Detainee: To get employment and save money.
Member: Who paid for your travel to Afghanistan?
Detainee: I took the money from my father.
Member: Are you a Yemeni citizen?
Detainee: Yes, I am.
Member: And what was your usual occupation in Yemen?
Detainee: I was not employed; I was a student.
Member: Did you ever have military training?
Detainee: No, I did not.
Member: In the houses you stayed in Afghanistan did you see any members of the Taliban or al Qaida?
Detainee: I don't know which one of these people I saw, al Qaida or Taliban. I did not hear about al Qaida until I was put in jail.
Member: Did you travel with anyone when you went through Tora Bora on your way out of Afghanistan?