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

Administrative Review Board

The Administrative Review Board is a United States military body that conducts an annual review of the suspects held by the United States in Camp Delta in the United States Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba....

 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.

The transcript from Al Ansari's Administrative Review Board hearing show he initially planned to participate in his hearing.
However, he changed his mind when he asked his Assisting Military Officer, who would be attending the hearing.
His Assisting Military Officer said he didn't tell him how many officers would be attending, but he confirmed for him that there wouldn't be any lawyers present.

The transcript records the Presiding Officer asking the Designated Military Officer about two individuals,
named in the factors favoring Al Ansari's continued detention, who were both associated with guest houses in Kandahar, had similarly spelled names.
One was named "Abu Kaloud" and the other was named "Abu Kalood Al Yemeni". The Designated Military Officer
said he thought they were the same individual, but he would have to double-check.

Al Ansari had tried to call for the testimony of an individual named Abu Jahad Al-Yemani during his Tribunal.

Medical records

On March 16, 2007 the Department of Defense

United States Department of Defense

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 published height and weight records for all but ten of the captives held in Guantanamo.
Faris Muslim Al Ansari
is one of ten men whose height and weight records were withheld.
The Department of Defense has not offered an explanation for why no records for those ten men were published.

Repatriation

The Department of Defense published the dates captives departed from Guantanamo on 26 November 2008.
According to that list Faris al-Ansari was repatriated on December 28, 2007.

On January 9, 2009 the Department of Defense published the records for the third set of Administrative Review Board hearings, conducted in 2007 and early 2008.
According to those records no review was scheduled for Al-Ansari in 2007.
According to the records of the 2005 and 2006 Board hearings, those boards had not recommended his repatriation.
Like the nine other men Al-Ansari was repatriated in spite of the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants recommending his continued detention in US custody.

External links

• The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo Andy Worthington