United States. Department of Defense

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United States. Department of Defense Mohammed Ahmad Said Al Edah (ISN# 033…

The detainee Traveled from Kandahar to Khost, Afghanistan on a bus filled with wounded Taliban soldiers.
Detainee: Wait, I'm still on point one. Do you want me to talk about my travel?
Tribunal President: If you would please.
Detainee: I traveled to Afghanistan with my sister for the purpose of taking her to her husband. In the Muslim society, a woman does not travel by herself. I was just accompanying her to her location. That was reason for my travel.
3.2. The detainee traveled from Kandahar to Khost, Afghanistan on a bus filled with wounded Taliban soldiers.
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United States. Department of Defense Mohammed Ahmad Said Al Edah (ISN# 033…

They are not very complex watches.
Detainee: How is that they've alleged that my watch is connected to the (inaudible) .
Tribunal President: Don't know. The only thing that we've seen is this [referring to Exhibit R-I] . This is the only document that this Tribunal Panel has seen.
Detainee: Bullet number six and number seven, they are alleging that it has some connection with the Taliban.
Tribunal President: Correct they are.
Detainee: If you are saying that there is a connection to the al Qaida and so forth and Personal Representative is saying that it's a very simple watch.
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United States. Department of Defense Mohammed Ahmad Said Al Edah (ISN# 033…

As far as soldier in the American society is somebody who is wearing a military uniform. So in Taliban it's different. When you look at the people they're all wearing the same clothes so you can't tell. That was in the past. Now they have improved on their uniforms and they have an army and so forth.
Q. So it's possible that these people on the bus were Taliban?
A. There were a lot people that were injured. Some of them could have been civilians and some of them could have been soldiers.
Q. When you left Yemen to Afghanistan, with your sister, were you still employed at the oil refinery?
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