Shahzada (Guantanamo Bay detainee 952)

Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate that Shahzada was born in 1959, in Belanday, Afghanistan.

Guantanamo detainee Abdullah Mohammad Khan's Combatant Status Review Tribunal dossier contains a letter from Shahzada.

Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives from the war on terror.

Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct a competent tribunals to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of prisoner of war status.

[8] On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a nine-page summarized transcripts from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a trailer the size of a large RV . The captive sat on a plastic garden chair, with his hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Three chairs were reserved for members of the press, but only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were observed. [ 6 ]