Bostan Karim (also transliterated as Bostan Qaseem) is a citizen of Afghanistan, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. Karim's Guantanamo detainee ID number was 975. Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate he was born in 1970, in Khost, Afghanistan. Karim was transferred to Oman on January 16, 2017. Official status reviews 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. In 2004 the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that Guantanamo captives were entitled to being informed of the allegations justifying their detention, and were entitled to try to refute them. Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants Following the Supreme Court's ruling the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants. Scholars at the Brookings Institution, led by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations: Bostan Karim was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... took military or terrorist training in Afghanistan." Bostan Karim was listed as one of the captives who was a "Taliban fighters and operatives." To comply with a Freedom of Information Act request, during the winter and spring of 2005, the Department of Defense released 507 memoranda. Those 507 memoranda each contained the allegations against a single detainee, prepared for their Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The detainee's name and ID numbers were redacted from all but one of the memoranda. However, 169 of the memoranda had the detainee's ID hand-written on the top right hand of the first page corner. 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. Bostan Karim was one of those 169 detainees. The allegations against Karim presented to his Combatant Status Review Tribunal were: a. The detainee is a member of the Taliban and al Qaida: Detainee was possibly identified as an al Qaida associate, planning landmine attacks in Khowst , Afghanistan. Detainee was possibly identified as a person likely to have communicated with Arab al