page_title: Khalid al-Zahrani
section_title: Combatant Status Review Tribunal
hierarchical_section_title: Khalid al-Zahrani / Combatant Status Review Tribunal
context_page_description: A Saudi candidate to become one of the September 11 hijackers, Khalid Saeed Ahmad al-Zahrani was an al-Qaeda member, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
  His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 234.
  His arrival in Guantanamo is recorded as February 11, 2002.
  His repatriation is recorded as July 17, 2007.
  His first interrogation is recorded on April 20, 2002 when his first interrogation is recorded.
  According to the 9/11 Commission, he attended "terrorist training camps", including Al Farouq in Afghanistan for eleven years. The 9/11 Commission reports:
  Khalid Saeed Ahmad al-Zahrani. He traveled to Afghanistan illegally after being prohibited by Saudi authorities from leaving Saudi Arabia. After being assigned to a mission in the U.S., he secretly reentered the Kingdom but failed in an attempt to have his name removed from the list of prohibited travelers so that he could obtain a U.S. visa. See Intelligence reports, interrogations of detainee, April 20, 2002; October 4, 2002; April 3, 2003.
context_section_description: Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives from the war on terror.
  This policy was challenged before the Judicial branch. Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct competent tribunals to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of prisoner of war status.
  Subsequently the Department of Defense instituted the Combatant Status Review Tribunals.  The Tribunals, however, were not authorized to determine whether the captives were lawful combatants—rather they were merely empowered to make a recommendation as to whether the captive had previously been correctly determined to match the Bush administration's definition of an enemy combatant.
caption: Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a 3 x 5 meter trailer.  The captive sat with his hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor.[6][7] Three chairs were reserved for members of the press, but only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were observed.[8]
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