Nasrat Khan - Administrative Review Board Hearing

Administrative Review Board Hearing

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.

Khan chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.

The following primary factors favor continued detention

a. Commitment

1. Detainee's son admitted that he and his father fought with the Taliban.
2. Detainee was captured by United States Forces with 700 weapons, including small arms and rockets.
3. Detainee was captured with letters addressed to him and from him although he claims to be uneducated and illiterate.

b. Training

1. Detainee claims he served in the Afghan Army in the late 1950's or 1960's . Detainee claims he only served as an infantryman for approximately two years and only received small arms training.

c. Connections/Associations

1. Detainee was a Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin commander.
2. Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) was one of the major mujahedin groups in the war against the Soviets. HIG has long established ties with Usama bin Laden. Gulbuddin Hikmatyar founded HIG. Hikmatyar ran several terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and was a pioneer in sending mercenary fightters to other Islamic fighting conflicts. Hikmatyar offered to shelter Usama bin Laden after he later fled Sudan in 1996.
3. Detainee was a village leader in an area controlled by the Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin (HIG).
4. Detainee claims he only met Gulbuddin Hikmatyar once.
5. Reporting states Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin members were planning to kidnap United States Personnel on the Kabul to Jalalabad road between the Sorobi, Kabul province, Afghanistan and Jalalabad, Nangrahar province], Afghanistan to exchange for a captured Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin commander.
6. Further reporting states Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin wanted to kidnap United States military personnel from Bagram Airfield.
7. Detainee claims that Engineer Wasil was his son's commander.
8. Reporting states Wasil is a known member of Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin.
9. Reporting further states Wasil is not supportive of the United States, and believes the United States should not be in Afghanistan.
10. Detainee's son is a commander of the Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin.
11. Detainee's son admitted to having a weapons cache in his residence in the region of Sorobi.
12. Reporting states the Detainee's son has links to al Qaida, Taliban and Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin which led to his son's arrest.

The following primary factor favor release or transfer

1. Detainee claims he retired as the Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin fifteen years ago when his health began to fail.
2. Detainee stated he did know anything about the weapons found in the residence he was captured in.