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{{Infobox War on Terror detainee
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'''Abdul Helil Mamut''' is a citizen of ] who was held in ] detention in the ] ]s, in ].<ref name=DoDList2>
'''Khalil Mamut''' is a ] refugee, imprisoned for seven years at the ] ]s, in ].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://bermudasun.bm/main.asp?SectionID=24&SubSectionID=270&ArticleID=46573 |title=From behind bars to BDA: Gitmo four's joy at new life |access-date=2019-09-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110128162312/http://bermudasun.bm/main.asp?SectionID=24&SubSectionID=270&ArticleID=46573 |archive-date=2011-01-28 |url-status=live }}</ref>
{{cite web

The US Department of Defense estimated that Mamut was born in ], Xinjiang, China, in 1977 and assigned him the Guantanamo ] 278.<ref name=DoDList2>{{cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf | 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 | title=List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
| author=] | author=OARDEC
| author-link=OARDEC
| publisher=] | publisher=]
| date=May 15, 2006 | date=May 15, 2006
| accessdate=2007-09-29 | access-date=2007-09-29
| archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20070616044741/http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf
| archive-date=June 16, 2007
| url-status=live
}}</ref> }}</ref>
His Guantanamo ] was 278. The Department of Defense estimates that Mamut was born in ], China, in 1977


Mamut is one of the 22 ] for many years despite it becoming clear early on that they were innocent.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/04/02/innocent_detainees_need_a_home/ | work=The Boston Globe | title=Innocent detainees need a home | first1=Bill | last1=Delahunt | first2=Sabin | last2=Willett | date=2009-04-02 | access-date=2019-09-20 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090405194313/http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/04/02/innocent_detainees_need_a_home/ | archive-date=2009-04-05 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/17-innocent-uighurs-detained-guant%C3%A1namo-ask-supreme-court-release |title=17 Innocent Uighurs Detained at Guantánamo Ask Supreme Court for Release &#124; Center for Constitutional Rights |access-date=2019-09-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100826234732/http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/17-innocent-uighurs-detained-guant%C3%A1namo-ask-supreme-court-release |archive-date=2010-08-26 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=AsiaTimes041104> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516183847/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FK04Ad02.html |date=2008-05-16 }}, '']'', November 4, 2004</ref>
Mamut is one of approximately two dozen detainees from the Uighur ethnic group.<ref name=AsiaTimes041104>, '']'', November 4, 2004</ref>
{{Main|Uighur detainees in Guantanamo}}


He won his ] in 2008. Judge ] declared his detention as unlawful and ordered to set him free in the ]. He was sent to ] in June 2009.
{{CSRT-Yes}}<ref name=CsrtSummaryOfEvidenceAbdulHelilMamut>
{{cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000300-000399.pdf#20
| title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Mamut, Abdul Helil
| date=16 September 2004
| page='''page 20'''
| author=]
| publisher=]
| accessdate=2008-04-15
}}</ref>
The memo listed the following allegations against him:


==Sent to Bermuda==
{{quotation|
:a. The detainee is a Uighur fighter:
:#The detainee traveled to Afghanistan via Pakistan to receive training at a Uighur training camp in Tora Bora.
:#The detainee arrived at the Uighur Tora Bora training camp on 17 June 2001.
:#The detainee received training on the AK-47 while at the Uighur Tora Bora training camp.
:#The detainee was at the Uighur Tora Bora training camp when it was bombed by US/Coalition forces in October.
:#The detainee evaded in the Tora Bora mountains for two and half months before being captured by Pakistani Security Forces along with a group of other Uighur fighters and Arabs.
}}


Abdul Helil Mamut,
==Transcript==
and three other Uyghurs

Mamut chose to participate in his ].<ref name=CsrtAbdulHelilMamut>
{{cite web
| url=http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_46_3096-3129.pdf#7
| title=Summarized Statement
| date='''date redacted'''
| pages='''pages 7-14'''
| author=]
| publisher=]
| accessdate=2008-04-15
}}</ref>
On March 3, 2006, in response to a ] from ] the ] published a Summarized transcripts 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=]
| date=April 4, 2006
| accessdate=2008-03-15
| quote=
}}</ref>

==Testimony==

Mamut testified that he originally traveled to Pakistan to study. He spent three years at a technical college in Lahore. But he ended up dropping out, because his academic preparation in China was insufficient. It was only after he was flunking out at the technical college that he decided to get any training he could. He had heard that some Uighurs were getting some training in Afghanistan, and he decided to join them.

He said there were no Arabs or Afghans in the camp. That he and his fellow Uighurs did get some minimal training on the AK-47, individually, one at a time, but most of their time was spent in construction work.

He acknowledged that he and his fellow Uighurs had fled when the camp when the USA bombed it.
He denied that they had fled armed, or had joined any streams of armed ].

{{Uyghur detainee}}
:{| class="wikitable"
|
:Abdul Helil Mamut is a 27-year-old Chinese citizen. who is an ethnic Uighur from ] China. In 1998 the detainee left China to go to ], Pakistan to get education in order to help other Uighurs to fight the Chinese oppression. He was last interviewed at the end of 2002. He has no reported incidents of violence in his discipline history but has verbally assaulted guards on occasion. Mamut is suspected as 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 '''"Abd Al Nasir"'''.

{{ARB}}

==Summary of Evidence memo==

A ] was prepared for
Abdul Helil Mamut's
Administrative Review Board,
on
31 August 2005.<ref name=ArbSummaryOfEvidenceAbdulHelilMamut>
{{cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000295-000393.pdf#54
| title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Mamut, Abdul Helil
| date=31 August 2005
| pages='''pages 54-56'''
| author=]
| publisher=]
| accessdate=2008-04-15
}}</ref>
The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

''The following primary factors favor continued detention''
{{quotation|
:a. Commitment
::In 1998, the detainee traveled to Lahore, Pakistan, to study. After his third year, the detainee realized that schooling was not going to help him help his people fight the oppression back in China. He met with a Uighur fighter to talk about training in Afghanistan. In June 2001, he left Pakistan to attend weapons training in Afghanistan.

:b. Training
:#The detainee traveled to Jalalabad, Afghanistan, to Uighur house, and then to a training camp in the Tora Bora mountains. The detainee received training on the Kalishnakov.
:#The detainee was at the camp until it was bombed in October 2001.

:c. Connections/Associations
:#The East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) operated a training camp in Tora Bora, Afghanistan, and a guesthouse in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
:#The Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), a small Islamic extremist group based in China's western Xinjiang Province, is one of the most militant of the ethnic Uighur separatist groups pursuing an independent Eastern Turkistan, which would include Turkey, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Xinjiang. ETIM and other overlapping militant Uighur groups are linked to the international mujahidin movement begeinning with the participation of ethnic Uighur mujahidin in the Soviet and Afghan war and to a limited degree al Qaida
:#The ETIM also garnered support from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU).
:#The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) is a coalition of Islamic militants from Uzbekistan and other Central Asian states opposed to Uzbekistani President Islom Karimov's secular regime. Although the IMU's primary goal remains to overthrow Karimov and establish an Islamic state in Uzbekistan, IMU political and ideological leader Tohir Yoldashev is working to rebuild the organization and appears to have widened the IMU's target to include all those he perceives as fighting Islam. The IMU generally has been unable to operate in Uzbekistan and thus has been more active in Kyrgystan and Tajikistan.

:d. Detainee Actions and Statements
:#When the camp was bombed, everyone fled to the mountains to take refuge. They saw a group of Arabs walking by and they followed the Arabs who were escaping to Pakistan.
:#The detainee and the other Uighurs walked for two days to a village in Pakistan where they were captured by Pakistani police.
}}

== The following primary factors favor release or transfer ==
:{|
|valign="top" | '''a.''' ||
The detainee stated he has never fought or engaged the United States Forces and stated he never had any intention of fighting for the Taliban. The detainee stated his sole purpose was to receive training to prepare him for the time where the Uighur people would fight the Chinese for their independence.
|-
|valign="top" | '''b.''' ||
The Uighurs believe that the United States is the only country attempting to help the Uighur's cause under Chinese oppression. The detainee stated that the Uighurs stand ready to support the United States in any future conflict the United States may have with China.
|-
|valign="top" | '''c.''' ||
The detainee claims he never saw the Taliban on the mountains, nor did he see any Arabs, until after the camp was bombed and they retreated to the mountains.
|}

==Board recommendations==

In early September 2007 the Department of Defense released two heavily redacted memos, from his Board, to ], the ].<ref name=ArbRecommendationIsn278>
{{cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Decision_memos_000196-000275.pdf#66
| title=Administrative Review Board assessment and recommendation ICO ISN 278
| date=18 November 2005
| author=]
| publisher=]
| accessdate=2008-04-23
| page='''page 66'''
}}</ref><ref name=ArbBasisForRecommendationIsn278>
{{cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Decision_memos_000196-000275.pdf#67
| title=Classified Record of Proceedings and basis of Administrative Review Board recommendation for ISN 278
| date=9 September 2005
| author=]
| publisher=]
| accessdate=2008-04-23
| pages='''pages 67-72'''
}}</ref>
The Board's recommendation was unanimous
The Board's recommendation was redacted.
England authorized his transfer on 18 November 2005.

His Board noted he: ''"...continues to be a threat to the United States and its allies."

==Freedom==

Abdul Helil Mamut,
and three other Uyghurs
], ] and ] ], ] and ]
were unexpectedly set free in Bermuda on June 11 2009.<ref name=AndyWorthington2009-06-11> were set free in Bermuda on June 11, 2009.<ref name=AndyWorthington2009-06-11>{{cite news
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| title=Who Are the Four Guantanamo Uighurs Sent to Bermuda? | title=Who Are the Four Guantanamo Uighurs Sent to Bermuda?
| date=2009-06-11 | date=2009-06-11
| author=] | author=Andy Worthington
| author-link=Andy Worthington
| publisher=] | publisher=]
| access-date=2009-06-12
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==References== ==References==
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==External links==
* ] October 9, 2008
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*Human Rights First; {{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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Latest revision as of 20:07, 28 December 2024

Uyghur refugee
Khalil Mamut
Born1977 (age 47–48)
Kashgar, Xinjiang, China
Detained at Guantanamo
Other name(s) Khaleel Mamut
Abdul Nasser
Abdul Helil Mamut
ISN278
Charge(s)No charge
StatusReleased

Khalil Mamut is a Uyghur refugee, imprisoned for seven years at the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.

The US Department of Defense estimated that Mamut was born in Kashgar, Xinjiang, China, in 1977 and assigned him the Guantanamo Internment Serial Number 278.

Mamut is one of the 22 Uighurs held in Guantanamo for many years despite it becoming clear early on that they were innocent.

He won his habeas corpus in 2008. Judge Ricardo Urbina declared his detention as unlawful and ordered to set him free in the United States. He was sent to Bermuda in June 2009.

Sent to Bermuda

Abdul Helil Mamut, and three other Uyghurs Huzaifa Parhat, Emam Abdulahat and Jalal Jalaladin were set free in Bermuda on June 11, 2009.

References

  1. "From behind bars to BDA: Gitmo four's joy at new life". Archived from the original on 2011-01-28. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  2. OARDEC (May 15, 2006). "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 16, 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
  3. Delahunt, Bill; Willett, Sabin (2009-04-02). "Innocent detainees need a home". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 2009-04-05. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  4. "17 Innocent Uighurs Detained at Guantánamo Ask Supreme Court for Release | Center for Constitutional Rights". Archived from the original on 2010-08-26. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  5. China's Uighurs trapped at Guantanamo Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine, Asia Times, November 4, 2004
  6. Andy Worthington (2009-06-11). "Who Are the Four Guantanamo Uighurs Sent to Bermuda?". Huffington Post. Archived from the original on 2009-07-22. Retrieved 2009-06-12.

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