Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Qalandar Shah is a citizen of Afghanistan, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. Shah''s Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 812. American intelligence analysts estimate Shah was born in 1873, in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives from the war on terror. This policy was challenged before the Judicial branch. 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. Subsequently the Department of Defense instituted the Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The Tribunals, however, were not authorized to determine whether the captives were lawful combatants -- rather they were merely empowered to make a recommendation as to whether the captive had previously been correctly determined to match the Bush administration''s definition of an enemy combatant. Shah participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal