Combatant Status Review
Qassim 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 was associated with the Taliban:
- In 2001, the detainee traveled from Kyrgyzstan, through Pakistan, then on to Jalalabad, Afghanistan to attend a training camp.
- The detainee attended a Uigher training camp in the Tora Bora Mountains that had been given to the Uighers by the Taliban for the purpose of training to fight the Chinese.
- The Detainee was at the camp for three months and spent two months learning the Koran and one month shooting an AK-47.
- After the U.S. bombing started, the Detainee and the other Uighurs went to the caves and stayed there until the Northern Alliance came to the camps.
- An afghani man sent the Detainee with approximately one hundred Arabs and twenty Uighurs to Pakistan, where they were captured.
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