Rahmatullah

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rahmatullah is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Rahmatullah's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 964. American intelligence analysts estimate that Rahmatullah was born in 1981, in Helmand, Afghanistan.Rahmatullah is one of approximately one dozen Afghans captured on February 10, 2003, following an ambush on an American convoy, near the village of Lejay, Afghanistan.Rahmatullah was transferred to Afghanistan on December 15, 2006.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 a competent tribunal to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of prisoner of war status.