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{{Infobox War on Terror detainee
| name = Ahmed Adil
| image =
| image_size = 203px
| caption = Ahmed Adil
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1973}}
| birth_place = [[Kashgar]], [[China]]
| death_date =
| death_place =
| detained_at = [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp|Guantanamo]]
| id_number = 260
| group =
| alias =
| charge = No charge (held in [[extrajudicial detention]])
| penalty =
| status = Transferred to a refugee camp in Albania.
| occupation =
| spouse =
| parents =
| children =
}}
'''Ahmed Adil''' is a citizen of [[China]] who was held in [[extrajudicial]] detention in the [[United States]] [[Guantanamo Bay detainment camp]]s, in [[Cuba]].<ref name=DoDList2>
{{cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf
| title=List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
| publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]
| accessdate=2006-05-15
| quote=
}}</ref>
Adil's Guantanamo [[Internment Serial Number]] was 260.
American [[intelligence analysts]] estimate he was born in 1973, in [[Kashgar]], China.

Adil is one of approximately two dozen detainees from the [[Uyghur people|Uyghur]] ethnic group.<ref>[http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FK04Ad02.html China's Uighurs trapped at Guantanamo] {{webarchive |url=http://www.webcitation.org/5iiEnVC9Y?url=http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FK04Ad02.html |date=2009-08-01 }}, ''[[Asia Times]]'', November 4, 2004 </ref>
Adil is one of approximately half a dozen Uyghurs whose [[Combatant Status Review Tribunal]]s determined they were not enemy combatants after all.<ref name=WapoNlec>{{cite web
|url=http://projects.washingtonpost.com/guantanamo/nlec/
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060811015712/http://projects.washingtonpost.com/guantanamo/nlec/
|archivedate=11 August 2006
|title=Guantanamo Bay Detainees {{sic|nolink=y|Classifed}} as 'No Longer Enemy Combatants'
|publisher= ''[[Washington Post]]''
}}</ref><ref name=DoDNlecList20071119>
{{cite news
| url=
| title=Detainees Found to No Longer Meet the Definition of "Enemy Combatant" during Combatant Status Review Tribunals Held at Guantanamo
| publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]
| author=
| date=November 19, 2007
| quote=
}}</ref>
Five of the Uyghurs were transferred to [[Albania]].<ref name=BBC20070111>
{{cite news
| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6189517.stm
| title=Albanian fix for Guantanamo Dilemma
| publisher=BBC
| date=January 11, 2007
| accessdate=2008-04-25
| quote=
| first=Neil
| last=Arun
}}</ref>
Several others had new Tribunals convened that reversed the earlier determination.<ref name="No-hearing_hearings">
{{cite web
| url=http://law.shu.edu/news/final_no_hearing_hearings_report.pdf
| title=No-hearing hearings
| page=17
| authors=[[Mark Denbeaux]], [[Joshua Denbeaux]], David Gratz, John Gregorek, Matthew Darby, Shana Edwards, Shane Hartman, Daniel Mann, Megan Sassaman and Helen Skinner
| publisher=[[Seton Hall University]] School of Law
| accessdate=April 2, 2007
}}</ref>

{{Main|Uighur detainees in Guantanamo}}

{{Uyghur detainee}}
:{| class="wikitable"
|
:Ahmed Adil is a 31-year-old Chinese Citizen who is an ethnic Uighur from the Xinjiang province of China. Adil was last interviewed in the end of 2002. He has no reported incidents of violence in his discipline history. Adil is suspected as {{sic}} being a probable member of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM). He is suspected of having received training in an ETIM training camp in Afghanistan.
|}

The information paper also identified him as "Ahnad Adil".

== Combatant Status Review ==
{{CSRT-Yes}}<ref name=CsrtSummaryOfEvidenceAhmedAdil>
{{cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000201-000299.pdf#95
| title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Adil, Ahmed
| date=9 November 2004
| pages=95–96
| author=[[OARDEC]]
| publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]
| accessdate=2007-12-19
| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20071214110713/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000201-000299.pdf| archivedate= 14 December 2007 | deadurl= no}}</ref>

{{quotation|
:The detainee supported the Taliban against the United States and its coalition partners:
:# The detainee traveled to Jalalabad, Afghanistan from Pakistan in 2001.
:# The detainee went to Afghanistan in October 2001 to receive training.
:# The detainee traveled from Jalalabad to a Uighur camp in the Tora Bora mountains and stayed there for approximately forty-five days.
:# Uighur groups in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have formed ties with Al Qaeda and other Islamic terrorist groups and China’s two principal militant Uighur groups are the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) and the East Turkistan Liberation Organization (ETLO).
:# The East Turkistan Islamic Movement is listed in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Terrorist Organization Reference Guide, as being one of the most militant groups, and has financial and training ties to Al Qaeda.
:# While in the Tora Bora Mountains, the detainee learned how to “break down” the Kalashniko.
:# The detainee was in the Tora Bora mountains when the U.S. bombing campaign occurred.
:# Pakistani soldiers, while fleeing Afghanistan into Pakistan, captured the detainee, along with other Uighurs and Arabs.
}}

On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] published a six page summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.<ref name=TheAge20060404>
{{cite news
|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/US-releases-Guantanamo-files/2006/04/04/1143916500334.html
|title=US releases Guantanamo files
|publisher=[[The Age]]
|date=April 4, 2006
|accessdate=2008-03-15
|quote=
|location=Melbourne
|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5cbDWU3w5?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theage.com.au%2Fnews%2FWorld%2FUS-releases-Guantanamo-files%2F2006%2F04%2F04%2F1143916500334.html
|archivedate=2008-11-25
|deadurl=no
|df=
}}</ref>

== Letter to the Secretary of State ==

Adil wrote to [[Secretary of State]] [[Condoleezza Rice]] on January 19, 2006.<ref name=Letter>[http://www.bradenton.com/multimedia/miami/news/0505gitmoletterp6.pdf Letter to Condoleezza Rice], January 19, 2006 {{dead link|date=February 2011}}</ref> In it he wrote that his Tribunal determined he was innocent on May 9, 2005. He said he was appealing directly to Rice because he had tried all other options.

== Asylum in Albania ==

On May 5, 2006 the [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] announced that they had transferred five Uyghurs who had been determined not to have been enemy combatants, to [[Albania]].<ref name=Wapo060505>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121019235912/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/05/AR2006050501431.html Albania accepts Chinese Guantanamo detainees], ''[[Washington Post]]'', May 5, 2006 {{dead link|date=February 2011}}</ref>
Seventeen other Uyghurs continue to be held at Guantanamo, because their CSRTs determined they were enemy combatants.

==The McClatchy interview==

On June 15, 2008 the [[McClatchy News Service]] published articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives. McClatchy reporters interviewed Ahmed Adil.<ref name=McClatchyCaptiveDatabasePg2>
{{cite news
|url=http://services.mcclatchyinteractive.com/detainees?page=2
|title=Guantanamo Inmate Database: Page 2
|publisher=[[McClatchy News Service]]
|author=[[Tom Lasseter]]
|date=June 15, 2008
|accessdate=2008-06-16
|quote=
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080620093342/http://services.mcclatchyinteractive.com/detainees?page=2
|archivedate=20 June 2008
|deadurl=bot: unknown
|df=
}}
</ref><ref name=McClatchyAhmedAdil>
{{cite news
|url=http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/21
|title=Guantanamo Inmate Database: Ahmed Adil
|publisher=[[McClatchy News Service]]
|author=[[Tom Lasseter]]
|date=June 15, 2008
|accessdate=2008-06-16
|quote=
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080626183740/http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/21
|archivedate=26 June 2008
|deadurl=bot: unknown
|df=
}}
</ref>
During his interview Ahmed Adil described life in the Uyghur construction camp:
{{quotation|"It was a simple life, but there was food and shelter, and company. I'd only been there 45 days when the bombing started. At first I wasn't worried, because it had nothing to do with me. But then it did. The bombs got close."}}

Ahmed Adil told his interviewers that he spent long periods in solitary confinement, in a cell that was only 3 x 6 feet, and that he was always chained to the floor during his interrogations.<ref name=McClatchyAhmedAdil/>

== References ==
{{Reflist|2}}
{{ETIM}}
{{ListUyghurDetainees}}{{Exonerated Guantanamo detainees}}
{{Controversies surrounding people captured during the War on Terror}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Adil, Ahmed}}
[[Category:Chinese extrajudicial prisoners of the United States]]
[[Category:Guantanamo detainees known to have been released]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:1973 births]]
[[Category:Year of birth uncertain]]
[[Category:Uyghurs]]

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