Mohamad Farik Amin

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Mohamad Farik Amin
File:ISN 10021, Mohd Farik Bin Amin.jpg
Guantanamo captive Mohd Farik Bin Amin wearing the white uniform issued to compliant captives.
Citizenship Malaysia[1]
Detained at black sites, Guantanamo
ISN 10021
Status Still held in Guantanamo

Mohamad Farik Amin, alias Zubair Zaid, is a Malaysian[1] who is alleged to be a senior member of Jemaah Islamiyah and al Qaeda. He is currently in American custody in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. He is one of the 14 detainees who had previously been held for years at CIA black sites.[2] In the ODNI biographies of those 14, Amin is described as a direct subordinate of Hambali.[3] Farik Amin is also a cousin of well-known Malaysian terrorist Zulkifli Abdhir.[4]

According to Time Magazine,[5] Amin, Hambali, and Mohammed Nazir Bin Lep were detained and interrogated on the remote Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, where they confessed to scouting out possible sites for terrorist bombings throughout Thailand. Time also reported[6] that the three were captured together in central Thailand on August 11, 2003. The ODNI document says that Hambali and Bin Lep were captured together, but only that Amin was captured some time in 2003.

The Department of Defense announced on August 9, 2007 that all fourteen of the "high-value detainees" who had been transferred to Guantanamo from the CIA's black sites, had been officially classified as "enemy combatants".[7] Although judges Peter Brownback and Keith J. Allred had ruled two months earlier that only "illegal enemy combatants" could face military commissions, the Department of Defense waived the qualifier and said that all fourteen men could now face charges before Guantanamo military commissions.[8][9]

Joint Review Task Force

When he assumed office in January 2009 President Barack Obama made a number of promises about the future of Guantanamo.[10][11][12] He promised the use of torture would cease at the camp. He promised to institute a new review system. That new review system was composed of officials from six departments, where the OARDEC reviews were conducted entirely by the Department of Defense. When it reported back, a year later, the Joint Review Task Force classified some individuals as too dangerous to be transferred from Guantanamo, even though there was no evidence to justify laying charges against them. On April 9, 2013, that document was made public after a Freedom of Information Act request.[13] Mohamad Farik bin Amin was one of the 71 individuals deemed too innocent to charge, but too dangerous to release. Although Obama promised that those deemed too innocent to charge, but too dangerous to release would start to receive reviews from a Periodic Review Board less than a quarter of men have received a review.

References

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  2. ↑ Bush: CIA holds terror suspects in secret prisons, CNN, 7 September 2006.
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  4. ↑ ‘I would do it again without hesitation’, New Straits Times, 23 May 2015
  5. ↑ Asia's Terror Threat: One year after the carnage of Bali, a top terrorist's confessions suggest Asia is as vulnerable as ever, Time Magazine, October 6, 2003
  6. ↑ Asia's Terror Threat Time Magazine, October 6, 2003
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