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.

Kadir chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.

Enemy Combatant Election Form

Kadir's Assisting Military Officer, referring to Kadir's Enemy Combatant Election Form, told his Board they first met on November 30, 2005,
for 62 minutes.
Kadir told his Assisting Military Officer he wanted to present six letters to his Board. And they met, a second time, on
December 1, 2005 for Kadir to bring in his letters.

Kadir's Assisting Military Officer told his Board that Kadir was "cooperative and polite throughout both interviews".

Kadir was given a copy of his Unclassified Summary of Evidence memo

Summary of Evidence (ARB)

Counter-terrorism analysts prepared a Summary of Evidence memo for the Administrative Review Board hearings of approximately 460 captives in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba from December 2004 to December 2005.-Release of the memos:...

, translated into the Pashto language

Pashto language

Pashto , known as Afghani in Persian and Pathani in Punjabi , is the native language of the indigenous Pashtun people or Afghan people who are found primarily between an area south of the Amu Darya in Afghanistan and...

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The following primary factors favor continued detention
The following primary factors favor release or transfer

Documents submitted

Correspondence submitted on behalf of Enemy Combatant

ISN 831
Exhibiit #	Date	Classification	Guantanamo #
EC-C1	unknown	unclassified	Guan 2005-A 00365	not included with the transcript
EC-C2	unknown	unclassified	Guan 2005-A 01462	not included with the transcript
EC-C3	unknown	unclassified	Guan 2005-A 02436	not included with the transcript
EC-C4	unknown	unclassified	Guan 2005-A 02437	not included with the transcript
EC-C5	unknown	unclassified	Guan 2005-A 02438	not included with the transcript
EC-C6	unknown	unclassified	Guan 2005-A 02938	not included with the transcript

Correspondence submitted on behalf of Enemy Combatant

ISN 831
Exhibiit #	Date	Classification	Guantanamo #
EC-D1	unknown	unclassified	Guan 2003-I 00154	Three family photos
EC-D2	unknown	unclassified	Guan 2003-I 00236	More photos

Habeas corpus submission

Khandan Kadir is one of the sixteen Guantanamo captives whose amalgamated habeas corpus submissions were heard by
US District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton on January 31, 2007.

McClatchy interview

On June 15, 2008 the McClatchy News Service published articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives. McClatchy reporters interviewed Qadar Khandan.

The McClatchy report quoted a local security official named Ismail Khosti, who asserted that Qadar Khandan was a low-level commander in Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's forces.

"He was a commander for them in this province, not the top commander, but a commander. When the Taliban left Khost, there was a mujahedeen (holy warriors) council formed, and Khandan was the only representative of Hezb-e Islami on that council."

Qadar Khandan reports being beaten and subject to abusive interrogation in both the Kandahar detention facility and the Bagram Theater Internment Facility

Bagram Theater Internment Facility

The Parwan Detention Facility , also called the Bagram Theater Internment Facility, is a United States-run prison located next to Bagram Airfield in the Parwan Province of Afghanistan.It was formerly known as the Bagram Collection Point...

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He described being held in isolation, and suspended by his hands round the clock, for twenty days—a technique Bagram staff had used that killed two captives in December 2002.

"My heels weren't touching the ground, only my toes, and I had on earphones, goggles and a hood. Three or four times I became unconscious. The guards would open the gate and come in and punch me in the stomach."

In Guantanamo he reports interrogators had him sent to spend much of his time in solitary confinement—including two periods of seven months straight. The rules for humane treatment in US domestic prisons never allow prisoners to be left in solitary for more than thirty days.

BBC interview

The BBC interviewed 27 former captives held in Bagram in June 2009.
Khandan was mentioned by name in the BBC Report, where he was referred to as "Dr Khandan".
According to the report Khandan said:

Lieutenant Colonel

Lieutenant colonel

Lieutenant colonel is a rank of commissioned officer in the armies and most marine forces and some air forces of the world, typically ranking above a major and below a colonel. The rank of lieutenant colonel is often shortened to simply "colonel" in conversation and in unofficial correspondence...

 Mark Wright

Mark Wright

Mark Wright may refer to:*Mark Wright , English footballer and manager*Mark Wright , English footballer...

, speaking on behalf of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates

Robert Gates

Dr. Robert Michael Gates is a retired civil servant and university president who served as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011. Prior to this, Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, and under President George H. W....

, claimed Bagram met "international standards for care and custody".
The Guardian

The Guardian

The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...

quoting Wright's claim that GIs who abused captives had been punished, called it "an apparent allusion to the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal in Iraq."
Wright said:

Subsequent Bagram detention

On January 15, 2010, the Department of Defense complied with a court order and published a heavily redacted list of Captives held in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility.
There were 645 names on the list, which was dated September 22, 2009.
It was reported that three of the individuals on that list had the same name and ID number as former Guantanamo captives.
The author also noted that all the other Bagram captives had ID numbers that weren't in the same range as those used at Guantanamo, and he asserted that these three men, Kadir Khandan, Gul Zaman

Gul Zaman

-Determined not to have been an Enemy Combatant:Zaman was one of 38 detainees who was determined not to have been an enemy combatant during his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.The Department of Defense refers to these men as No Longer Enemy Combatants....

 and Hafizullah Shabaz Khail

Hafizullah Shabaz Khail

Dr. Hafizullah Shabaz Khail is a citizen of Afghanistan, who was held in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1946, in Paktia, Afghanistan....

were in fact former Guantanamo captives.