A security detention case turned on website-sourced evidence about camp commanders.

Evidence

As Layden-Stevenson sums up, however, ‘Islamic extremist ideology, as noted earlier, is the force that drives the Ministers’ case. When reduced to its bare bones, the Ministers’ position is founded largely on Mr. Almrei’s participation in jihad.’ Thus constructed, the primary task is to explore the meaning of Mr. Almrei’s participation in jihad in Afghanistan against the Soviets, an assessment that Layden-Stevenson feels must begin with who the commanders of the camps were. Relying on the government’s evidence available from a number of websites, she concludes that Abdul Sayyaf and Ibn Khattab ‘were hard-line Islamic fundamentalists and were acknowledged as such during the time frame when Mr. Almrei was in attendance at jihad.’ — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 119