UPDATE ON KUWAITI DETAINEES IN COALITION CUSTODY

C O N F I D E N T I A L BAGHDAD 000317 SIPDIS SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/03/2016 TAGS: PHUM PGOV PINS KJUS IZ KU SUBJECT: UPDATE ON KUWAITI DETAINEES IN COALITION CUSTODY REF: KUWAIT 34 Classified By: Counselor for Political-Military Affairs David C. Litt for Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) ¶1. (C) In response to Embassy Kuwait's inquiry in reftel: * Kuwaiti national ABDULRAHMAN MOBARAK MESHAKHAS AL BATHALI (ISN 157245) is currently held in the legal and physical custody of Coalition Forces at the MNF-I Fort Suse detention facility near Suleymaniyah. His case is under review for possible referral for trial at the Central Criminal Court of Iraq (CCCI); should he be referred and attend an investigative hearing before an Iraqi judge, he will at that point enter Iraqi legal custody (but will remain in Coalition Forces' physical custody pending his trial). * Kuwaiti national ALI AWAD FARAJ FARJEE AL HARBI (ISN 166970) was tried by an Iraqi judge under Iraqi law at the CCCI on 24 August 2005. He was convicted of illegal border crossing and was sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment. On 7 September 2005, he was transferred by Coalition Forces to an Iraqi Ministry of Justice prison facility in the Abu Ghraib neighborhood of Baghdad to serve his sentence. He is now in Iraqi legal and physical custody. KHALILZAD