Fayiz Al Kandari
| Fayiz Muhammed Ahmed Al Kandari | |
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Faez Mohammed Ahmed al-Kandari's official Guantanamo identity portrait, showing him wearing the white uniform issued to "compliant" captives.
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| Born |
June 3, 1975 Kuwait City |
| Detained at | Guantanamo |
| ISN | 552 |
| Charge(s) | Charged October 2008, charges dropped |
| Status | Released on 2016-01-08 |
Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari is a Kuwaiti citizen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba, from 2002 to 2016. He has never been charged with war crimes.
The US Department of Defense reports he was born on June 3, 1975 in Kuwait City.
Kandari was transferred to Kuwait on January 8, 2016.
His Combatant Status Review Tribunal accused him of the following: "The detainee (Al Kandari) recruited personnel to participate in jihad in Afghanistan … traveled into Afghanistan and received weapons training at the Khaldan training camp. Osama bin Laden personally provided religious instruction and trainee (sic) at this camp." Al Kandari has always denied the accusations and said: "I looked at all the unclassified accusations; I was laughing so hard." and "All this happened in a period of three months … I ask, 'Are these accusations against Faiz or against Superman?' It seems to me that whoever wrote these accusations he must (have) been drinking and he must have been drunk when he wrote it."
Scholars at the Brookings Institution, led by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations:
Lawyers for two Guantanamo detainees organized a study entitled, No-hearing hearings, which cited Al Kandari as an example of a detainee for whom all the evidence against him was "hearsay evidence".
The study quoted the Tribunal's legal advisor:
"Indeed, the evidence considered persuasive by the Tribunal is
made up almost entirely of hearsay evidence recorded by unidentified individuals with no first hand knowledge of the events they describe."
The study commented:
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