Moazzam Begg before speaking at a meeting about civil liberties

Moazzam Begg (born 1968) is one of nine British Muslims who were held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp, in Cuba, by the government of the United States of America. ^[1] He was released on January 25, 2005 along with Feroz Abbasi, Martin Mubanga and Richard Belmar, without charge though he received no compensation or an apology. President Bush released Moazzam Begg over the objections of the Pentagon, the CIA, and the FBI, who warned that Mr. Begg could still be a dangerous terrorist.^[2] Image File history File links Unbalanced_scales. ... Shortcut: WP:NPOVD Articles that have been linked to this page are the subject of an NPOV dispute (NPOV stands for Neutral Point Of View; see below). ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1439x1797, 1595 KB) Summary Photo of Moazzam Begg, 22 March 2003, before he spoke at a meeting about civil liberties hosted by the Respect party in Manchester. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1439x1797, 1595 KB) Summary Photo of Moazzam Begg, 22 March 2003, before he spoke at a meeting about civil liberties hosted by the Respect party in Manchester. ... Civil liberties is the name given to freedoms that protect the individual from government. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... There is also a collection of Hadith called Sahih Muslim A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Persian: Mosalman or Mosalmon Urdu: مسلمان, Turkish: Müslüman, Albanian: Mysliman, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of the religion of Islam. ... Extrajudicial execution and extrajudicial punishment are terms to describe death sentences and other types of punishment, respectively, executed without prior proper judicial procedure. ... Detainees upon arrival at Camp X-Ray, January 2002 Guantánamo Bay detainment camp serves as a joint military prison and interrogation center under the leadership of Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO), has occupied a portion of the United States Navys base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since 2002. ... is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Feroz Abbasi was one of nine British men who were held at Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo Bay by the government of the United States of America. ... Martin Mubanga is a joint citizen of both United Kingdom and Zambia. ... Richard Belmar is a citize of the United Kingdom who was detained by the Americans at Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay. ...

Five other British born men (Ruhal Ahmed, Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal, Tarek Dergoul and Jamal Udeen) were released in March 2004. At least four other former British residents remain detained in Guantanamo Bay, although none have British nationality. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Tipton Three. ... Safiq Rasul (born April 15, 1977, in Dudley, West Midlands, England) is best known for being a detainee held at Guantanamo Bay by the United States, who treated him an unlawful combatant. ... Asif Iqbal is a young British citizen who was held as a terror suspect in the American prison at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay. ... Jamal Udeen Al-Harith is a British citizen who was detained as a suspected terrorist in Camp Delta in the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay. ...

Background

Begg is originally from Sparkbrook, a suburb of Birmingham. His father, Azmat Begg, was born in India. Sparkbrook and Small Heath constituency shown within Birmingham Sparkbrook is an area in south-east Birmingham, England. ... This article is about the British city. ...

As a youth, Moazzam Begg became a member of a gang in Birmingham called "The Lynx Gang."^[3] For other uses, see Gang (disambiguation). ... The Lynx Gang is a Birmingham-based gang, which was founded in the 1970s, intially to protect the local Asian (most notably of Mirpuri Kashmiri and Pathaan origin) community from skinheads. ...

He was first arrested in 1994 for alleged involvement in a benefit fraud case. The leader of The Lynx gang, Shahid Akram Butt^[4], pleaded guilty and served 18 months in jail.^[5][6] Charges against Begg were dropped, but a police search of his home found night vision goggles, a bulletproof vest, and extremist Islamic literature. His family insist that he was collecting such items as a hobby. ^[7] Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ... Typically, defrauding a government by falsely claiming state help or money. ... Experimental night vision goggles. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article is about political For the religion of Islam, see Islam. ...

He had travelled to Afghanistan and Bosnia and attempted to travel to Chechnya, and fully acknowledges giving financial support for Muslim combatants, but insists that he never took a combat role for himself. ^[8] Combatants Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Predominantly Bosniak) Army of Republika Srpska, Yugoslav Peoples Army, various paramilitary units from Serbia and Montenegro (Serbian) Croatian Defence Council, Croatian Army (Croatian) Commanders Alija Izetbegović (President of Bosnia and Herzegovina) Sefer Halilović (Army chief of staff 1992-1993) Rasim... Combatants Russian Federation Chechen loyalists Republic of Chechnya Chechen rebels Caucasian insurgents and foreign fighters Caucasian Islamists Commanders Vladimir Putin Nikolai Patrushev Akhmad Kadyrov† Ramzan Kadyrov Aslan Maskhadov† Abdul Halim Sadulayev† Doku Umarov Shamil Basayev† Ibn al-Khattab† Strength At least 93,000 in Chechnya in 1999. ...

He was again arrested in 2000 under British anti-terrorism laws during a raid on the Maktabah Al Ansar bookshop in Birmingham, which he had founded. ^[9] The government retrieved encrypted files from his computer and ordered Begg to open them, but Begg refused and a judge ruled in his favor.^[7] He was released without charge.^[10] Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about algorithms for encryption and decryption. ...

Arrest

With his wife Zaynab and three young children, Begg moved to Kabul, Afghanistan, in mid 2001. He has always insisted that his move was to fulfil his dream of being a teacher, and he became a charity worker at a school. With the war in Afghanistan in 2001, the family decided to wait out the hostilities in neighbouring Pakistan.

When al Qaeda's Derunta training camp was captured that November, a copy of a money transfer was found that credited an account for Moazzam Begg.^[11] He was seized in Islamabad in February 2002 by the CIA. His family insist that this is a case of mistaken identity. Surveillance photo of the Derunta training camp after U.S. bombardment. ...

Detention in Afghanistan

Begg was held at Bagram airbase for approximately a year, then transferred to Guantanamo Bay. Bagram Air Base is located near Charikar in Parvan, Afghanistan. ...

While at Bagram, Begg claimed he witnessed two other detainees being beaten to death, and claims to have experienced similar treatment.^[12]

From his original detainment up to the time of his release, he was held for a total of just under three years. The United States government considered Begg an enemy combatant, and claimed that he trained at al-Qaeda terrorist camps in Afghanistan.^[13] He was not charged with any crime nor allowed to consult any legal counsel during that time. An enemy combatant has historically referred to members of the armed forces of the state with which another state is at war. ... Al-Qaeda (Arabic: القاعدة, the foundation or the base) is the name given to a worldwide network of militant Islamist organizations under the leadership of Osama bin Laden. ...

Denied access to the ICRC

A memo from a meeting held on October 9, 2003 summarizing a meeting between General Geoffrey Miller and his staff and Vincent Cassard of the ICRC, acknowledged that camp authorities were not permitting the ICRC to have access to Begg, due to "military necessity"^[14] an exception allowed for by the Geneva Conventions. is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... MG Geoffrey D. Miller - former Commander JTF Guantanamo MG Geoffrey Miller honored after his retirement Geoffrey D. Miller (born c. ... The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is historically a committee of Swiss nationals, although non-Swiss nationals have recently been allowed (the committee appoints new members to itself to replace those who resign or die) which leads the international Red Cross movement (often simply known after its symbol...

Defense attorney's allegations

His American lawyer, Gitanjali Gutierrez, received a handwritten letter from him, dated July 12, 2004.^{[15] [16]} This letter is unusual in that it was the first letter to come from a Guantanamo bay prisoner without having been censored by the American officials. It is not clear how this letter escaped the censor. It is not known if he wrote similar letters before. The language of the letter is coherent and purposeful. The full text of the letter was passed to Mr. Begg's American lawyer, thence to his British lawyer, Gareth Pierce. is the 193rd day of the year (194th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gareth Peirce (born c. ...

Several phrases from this letter have been discussed in the media, the most significant being "threats of torture, actual torture, death threats, racial and religious abuse", "cruel and unusual treatment" and "documents ... were signed under duress". The phrase "the deaths of two fellow detainees, at the hands of US military personnel, to which I myself was partially witness" has also attracted much attention, as has his insistence that "I am a law abiding citizen of the UK, and attest vehemently to my innocence, before God and the law, of any crime - though none has even been alleged".

Begg's known and suspected associations with terrorists

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Begg's Combatant Status Review Tribunal

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The allegations Begg would have faced, during his Tribunal, were:

a. The detainee is a member of al Qaida and other affiliated terrorist organizations.

1. The detainee recruited individuals to attend al Qauida run terrorist training camps in Afghanistan.
2. The detainee provided money and material support to al Qaida terrorist training camps.
3. The detainee has received extensive training at al Qaida run terrorist training camps since 1993. He has been trained on the AK-47, Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs), handgun, ambush theory, detection of land mines and he manufacture of improvised grenades.
4. The detainee provided support to al Qaida terrorists by providing shelter for their families while the al Qaida members committed terrorist acts.

b. The detainees engaged in hostile acts against the United States or its coalition Partners.

1. The detainee was armed and prepared to fight on the frontlines against US and allied forces alongside Taliban and al Qaida fighters.
2. The detainee retreated to the Tora Bora Afghanistan along with other Taliban and al Qaida fighters.
3. The detainee engaged in these hostil actions while neither he nor his fellow fighters wore distinctive military emblems on their clothes, not followed a typical chain of command.
4. The detainee provided support to Usama Bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network with full knowledge that Bin Laden had issued a declaration of war against the United States and that the al Qaida network had committed numerous terrorist attacks against the United States and its citizens.

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The Tribunal President's view of Begg's POW status

Moazzam Begg asserted that he was not claiming POW status -- because he regarded himself as a civilian. However, he submitted a list of witnesses he wanted to testify on his behalf. He thought two of them, an employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and a US officer, could testify that he been classified as a Prisoner of War, and had been issued a POW card. James Crisfield, the legal advisor to the Tribunals, wrote:^[25] The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a private humanitarian institution based in Geneva, Switzerland. ... Geneva Convention definition A prisoner of war (POW) is a soldier, sailor, airman, or marine who is imprisoned by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. ... Commander James R. Crisfield was the legal advisor to the Combatant Status Review Tribunals held at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp. ...

The detainee proffered that this witness was an ICRC employee who would testify that the detainee had previously been issued a POW identity card at a U.S. detention facility in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The Tribunal President initially determined that the witness was relevant, but after consultation with the Assistant Legal Advisor, she changed her determination. She based her decision on her conclusion that the Combatant Status Review Tribunals do not have the discretion to determine that a detainee should be classified as a prisoner of war -- only whether the detainee satisfies the definition of "enemy combatant" as provided in references (a) and (b). In my opinion, this decision was correct. It bears noting that in a written statement prepared by the detainee especially for the CSRT, the detainee specifically says that he does not claim POW status (see exhibit D-e).

Begg's statement

Begg's Personal Representative read a brief statement Begg had dictated.^[26]

Begg's Personal Representative's challenge to the Tribunal's conclusions

All Personal Representatives completed a form commenting on the Tribunal's conclusions.^[27] Almost all Personal Representatives checked a box signifying they had no comments.

Begg's Personal Representative however wrote a memo where:^[28]

• Begg's Personal Representative challenged the Tribunal's President and the OARDEC legal advisor conclusion that the witness Begg requested, showing he had previously been classified as a POW were not relevant.
• Begg's Personal Representative challenged the Tribunal's fundamental justice because: "...the Tribunal was instructed to assume that the detainee is an enemy combatant does not provide a means of denying the detainee the right to rebut the presumption."
• Begg's Personal Representative asserted that "...the Tribunal incorrectly ruled the above witnesses not relevant because they were not disputing that the detainee aided the Taliban or al Qaida. POW status would not have precluded these facts from being true."
• Begg's Personal Representative disputed the Tribunal President's and legal advisor's assertion that Tribunals did not have the authority to agree to captive's requests to be truthfulness evaluated during a polygraph examination by a polygraph examiner.

• Begg's Personal Representative concluded: "The above-mentioned failure to view relevant testimony denied this detainee adequate due process as outlined in the order of the convening authority."^[28]

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Torture allegations

It was reported in mid-November 2004 that the Britons in Guantanamo Bay "expect to face charges within six weeks".^[29] However by the end of December 2004 this time had passed without any news of charges being laid. Later in 2004, Clive Stafford Smith (a British born lawyer then working in the United States), was allowed to visit Begg and Richard Belmar. Smith said that he had heard "credible and consistent evidence" from Mr. Begg of torture, including the use of strappado ^[30][31] Clive Adrian Stafford Smith OBE (born July 9, 1959) is a British-born lawyer who has practised in the area of civil rights in United States of America. ... The strappado is a form of torture in which a victim is suspended in the air by means of a rope attached to his hands which are tied behind his back. ...

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Release

On Monday January 11, 2005, the British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw announced that the four British citizens remaining in Guantanamo Bay would be returned to Britain "within weeks" after "intensive and complex discussions" with the US government. Though they are still regarded as "enemy combatants" by the US government, no specific charges have been brought against any of them. is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... John Whitaker Straw (born August 3, 1946) is a British Labour Party politician. ...

On Tuesday January 25 2005 Begg and the three other British citizen detainees were flown back to the United Kingdom by an RAF aircraft.^[32] On arrival they were arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police and taken to Paddington Green police station for questioning under the Terrorism Act 2000. By 9pm on Wednesday January 26, all four had been released without charge. is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... RAF redirects here. ... The Terrorism Act 2000 is a current United Kingdom Act of Parliament - An Act to make provision about terrorism; and to make temporary provision for Northern Ireland about the prosecution and punishment of certain offences, the preservation of peace and the maintenance of order. ... is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Appeal to Iraqi kidnappers

On December 9, 2005 Begg made a video appeal to the Iraqi kidnappers of four Christian peace workers.^[33][34] Begg said seeing the peace workers in Orange boiler suits reminded him of his own incarceration in Guantanamo Bay. He was later joined in his plea by Islamist Mohammed Mahdi Akef and the Muslim Brotherhood.^[35] is the 343rd day of the year (344th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Norman Kember and Harmeet Singh Sooden held hostages, as depicted on Al Jazeera television. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Muslim Brothers (Arabic: الإخوان المسلمون al-ikhwān al-muslimūn, full title The Society of the Muslim Brothers, often simply الإخوان al-ikhwān, the Brotherhood or MB) is a world-wide Sunni Islamist movement and the worlds largest, most influential Islamist group[1]. The MB is the largest political...

His book

Begg is the author of a book about his Guantanamo experiences published in Britain as Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim's Journey To Guantanamo and Back (ISBN 0-7432-8567-0) and in the United States as Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantanamo, Bagram, and Kandahar (ISBN 1-59558-136-7).^[36][2] It was co-written with Victoria Brittain.

"Much of the Moazzam Begg story is consistent with other accounts of detention conditions in both Afghanistan and Guantanamo," wrote John Sifton, a New York-based official from Human Rights Watch who interviewed former Guantanamo prisoners in Pakistan and Afghanistan.^[37] "It is now clear that there is a systemic problem of abuse throughout the US military's detention facilities — not merely misbehaviour by a few bad apples."

But the New York Times reported "some notable gaps in Mr. Begg's memoir" in that he did not mention a previous arrest nor some of his alleged ties to terrorism. The book also omitted ties that Beggs acknowledged elsewhere, the Times said.^[2]

Begg comment on Supreme Court ruling

Begg was one of the detainees who would have faced charges before a military commission^[38], but on June 29, 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an earlier ruling (Hamdan v. Rumsfeld) that President Bush did not have the authority to set up such commissions. Military commissions are among procedures planned by the U.S. Bush administration to deal with detainees it links to al-Qaeda. ... is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the case involving a United States citizen, see Hamdi v. ...

Begg made the following comment: ^[39]

"A lot of us remain skeptical of what this decision will actually accomplish because it only applies to the handful of men who have been charged and Bush has not respected past court decisions. That said, I'm very glad to hear the news and hope it will be the beginning of the end for many of these men."

See also

• Babar Ahmed
• Lynx Gang

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References

1. ^ David Ignatius, A Prison We Need to Escape, Washington Post, June 14, 2006
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Jihadist or Victim: Ex-Detainee Makes a Case, The New York Times, June 15, 2006 mirror
3. ^ Moazzam Begg Interview, Liverpool's The Nerve, Spring 2007
4. ^ RETURN OF THE ‘ENEMY COMBATANT: An interview with Moazzan Begg, Muslim Minorities blog, March 14, 2007
5. ^ ^{a b} Benefit fraud ring funds Islamic terrorists, The Telegraph, November 18, 2001
6. ^ New City terror link, Birmingham Mail, July 23, 2003
7. ^ ^{a b} Briton facing US trial in Cuba was arrested by MI5, The Telegraph, July 6, 2003
8. ^ 'I never took up arms myself' How Moazzam Begg was arrested Channel 4 news February 24, 2005
9. ^ Terrorism act raid on bookshop, The Guardian, March 1, 2000
10. ^ Moazzam Begg, The Telegraph, July 05, 2003 -- background
11. ^ Inside Bin Laden's chemical bunker, The Guardian, November 17, 2001
12. ^ 'Two people were beaten to death': Moazzam Begg interview, Channel 4, February 24, 2005
13. ^ Guantanamo Four are too dangerous to free, says US, The Telegraph, March 8, 2004
14. ^ ICRC Meeting with MG Miller on 09 Oct 2003 (.pdf), Department of Defense, October 9, 2003
15. ^ Full text of Moazzam Begg's letter of July 12, hosted by the BBC
16. ^ Moazzam Begg's letter in PDF format hosted by the BBC
17. ^ ^{a b} Moazzam Begg on His Imprisonment at Guantanamo, Bagram, and Kandahar Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! August 1, 2006
18. ^ Did he act alone? Sunday Herald December 30, 2001
19. ^ Bookshop's messages of racist hate, The Observer, February 4, 2007
20. ^ Al Hindi, Esa (2000). The Army of Madinah in Kashmir. Maktabah al-Ansar. ISBN 0953984702. 
21. ^ Guantánamo Prisoners Getting Their Day, but Hardly in Court, New York Times, November 11, 2004 - mirror
22. ^ Inside the Guantánamo Bay hearings: Barbarian "Justice" dispensed by KGB-style "military tribunals", Financial Times, December 11, 2004
23. ^ Annual Administrative Review Boards for Enemy Combatants Held at Guantanamo Attributable to Senior Defense Officials. United States Department of Defense (March 6, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-09-22.
24. ^ Summary of Evidence memo (.pdf) from Moazzam Begg'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal, September 15, 2004, pages 22-23, hosted by the Associated Press
25. ^ Unclassified dossier (.pdf) from Moazzam Begg's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, hosted by Associated Press
26. ^ Moazzam Begg's statement (.pdf) from Moazzam Begg's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, September 15, 2004, pages 18-19, hosted by the Associated Press
27. ^ Personal Representative Review of the Record of Proceedings (.pdf) from Moazzam Begg's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, November 17, 2004, page 121, hosted by the Associated Press
28. ^ ^{a b} Personal Representative "Comments on Tribunal Result" (.pdf) from Moazzam Begg's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, November 17, 2004, page 121, hosted by the Associated Press
29. ^ Guantanamo Britons are still a threat, says Blair, The Telegraph, November 14, 2004
30. ^ Guantanamo Briton Tortured for Reciting Qur’an: Paper , Islam Online, January 2, 2005
31. ^ Guantanamo Briton 'in handcuff torture', The Guardian, January 2, 2005
32. ^ Guantanamo four arrive back in UK, BBC, January 25, 2005
33. ^ Ex-US detainee pleads for hostage, BBC, December 9, 2005
34. ^ Inter-faith support helped save the Iraq hostages, Lebanon Star, April 7, 2006
35. ^ Muslim Brotherhood leader calls for release of British hostage, The Independent, December 10, 2005
36. ^ Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. "Review of "Enemy Combatant"", The Independent, 24 March 2006. 
37. ^ Elizabeth Lalas. "Moazzam Begg’s story of detention and abuse: This is Bush’s war on terror", Socialist Worker Online, October 27, 2006. Retrieved on February 23. 
38. ^ Profile: Moazzam Begg, Cooperative Research
39. ^ The lost Chinese from Guantanamo, the Supremes and re-taking the Moral High Ground, Blogger News Network, June 30, 2006

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External links

• The Prisoner, NOW on PBS
• US Department of Defense statements
• Vikram Dodd, Tania Branigan. "Health fears for 'torture victims'", The Guardian, Wednesday January 12, 2005. 
• A conversation about detainment, torture, and civil liberties, via videoconference from the U.K. with Moazzam Begg, Nov 12, 2006