Abd Al Razaq Abdallah Hamid Ibrahim Al Sharikh - Combatant Status Review

Combatant Status Review

Al Sharikh was among the 60% of prisoners who participated in the tribunal hearings. A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for the tribunal of each detainee. The memo for his hearing lists the following:

a The detainee is a member of Al Qaida.

1. In about late 2000, the detainee traveled from his native Saudi Arabia to Afghanistan via Pakistan.
2. The detainee was motivated to travel to Afghanistan to become a martyr like his brother, who died in combat in Chechnya.
3. Upon arriving at a safe house in Kandahar, Afghanistan, the detainee informed the safe-house facilitator that he wanted to go to the “front lines.”
4. The detainee received two months of training at the Al Farouq training camp.
5. While at Al Farouq, the detainee received training on small arms including the Makarov, AK-47, Dragunov SVD, RPG-7, and the RGD-5 hand grenades.
6. During his training at Al Farouq, the detainee attended a speech given by Usama Bin Laden.
7. While at the Al Farouq training camp, the detainee observed that the number of recruits training at the camp grew substantially during the summer months of 2001.

b The detainee participated in military operations against the coalition.

1. The detainee admits that he served on the “front lines” where fighting occurred.
2. The detainee used the Makarov, Dragunov SVD and AK-47 weapons while serving on the front lines.
3. The detainee was captured by Pakistani police while traveling with a group of Arabs and Afghanis, some of whom were security guards for Usama Bin Laden.