Bostan Karim

[4] Originally the Bush Presidency asserted that captives apprehended in the "war on terror" were not covered by the Geneva Conventions, and could be held indefinitely, without charge, and without an open and transparent review of the justifications for their detention.

Following the Supreme Court's ruling, the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants.

[5][8] Scholars at the Brookings Institution, led by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held at Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations:[9] To comply with a Freedom of Information Act request, during the winter and spring of 2005, the Department of Defense released 507 memoranda.

Each of the 507 memoranda contained the allegations against a single detainee, prepared for their Combatant Status Review Tribunals.

When the Department of Defense complied with a court order, and released official lists of the detainee's names and ID numbers it was possible to identify who those 169 were written about.

During his testimony, Karim repeatedly expressed his regret that his former business partner Obaidullah, and Abdullah Wazir were not present to testify on his behalf.

Following the policy change, the Personal Representative would meet with the witness, and take a statement, if they were classified at a different level of compliance than the detainee who requested them.

His mother told him that when he was a toddler she had turned her back and he had tried to crawl on the cooking stove.

He expressed skepticism that his pattern of burns, to two isolated parts of his body, could have been caused by an explosion.

Bostan Karim is one of the sixteen Guantanamo captives whose amalgamated habeas corpus submissions were heard by US District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton on January 31, 2007.

[13] Although a writ of habeas corpus had been submitted on his behalf, the DoD did not release the unclassified dossier from his Tribunal.