Timothy Bush, Sr. (December 9, 1728 – February 25, 1815) was an American blacksmith and soldier, who is the earliest confirmed direct ancestor of the Bush political family. He is the great-great-great-great-great grandfather of president George W. Bush. #
Biography
Timothy Bush was the son of Richard Bush and Mary Fairbanks, both of Dedham, Massachusetts. Mary's great-grandfather Jonathan Fairbanks, who was an ancestor of President William H. Taft and Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, also built the Fairbanks House, the oldest surviving wooden house in the United States.
Some researchers believe that Bush may have been an illegitimate child of Mary after she was widowed. The relationship is conjectured by genealogists based on the middle name Fairbanks given to one of Timothy's children.
Bush served in the French and Indian Wars as a soldier between 1755 and 1757. He married Deborah House the daughter of John House on April 12, 1759 in Hebron, Connecticut. They had five children after which they relocated to Norwich, Vermont where Bush was a Captain of a militia company.
By training he was a blacksmith, but when the American Revolution broke out, militia Captain Bush led a company of soldiers for the Continental Army. The family moved around 1810 to Springport, in Cayuga County in the Rochester, New York area. He died in Springport, New York in 1815. Through his son Timothy Bush, Jr., who was also a blacksmith, descended two American Presidents: George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. He was also the grandfather of biblical scholar George Bush.
Children
* Timothy Bush, Jr. (1761-1850)
* Samantha Daniels-Bush (1762-1842)
* George Allen Bush (1766-1838)
Biography
Timothy Bush was the son of Richard Bush and Mary Fairbanks, both of Dedham, Massachusetts. Mary's great-grandfather Jonathan Fairbanks, who was an ancestor of President William H. Taft and Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, also built the Fairbanks House, the oldest surviving wooden house in the United States.
Some researchers believe that Bush may have been an illegitimate child of Mary after she was widowed. The relationship is conjectured by genealogists based on the middle name Fairbanks given to one of Timothy's children.
Bush served in the French and Indian Wars as a soldier between 1755 and 1757. He married Deborah House the daughter of John House on April 12, 1759 in Hebron, Connecticut. They had five children after which they relocated to Norwich, Vermont where Bush was a Captain of a militia company.
By training he was a blacksmith, but when the American Revolution broke out, militia Captain Bush led a company of soldiers for the Continental Army. The family moved around 1810 to Springport, in Cayuga County in the Rochester, New York area. He died in Springport, New York in 1815. Through his son Timothy Bush, Jr., who was also a blacksmith, descended two American Presidents: George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. He was also the grandfather of biblical scholar George Bush.
Children
* Timothy Bush, Jr. (1761-1850)
* Samantha Daniels-Bush (1762-1842)
* George Allen Bush (1766-1838)
Abdullah Gulam Rasoul (born circa 1973) is a citizen of Afghanistan held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.
His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 008.
JTF-GTMO analysts estimate he was born in 1973, in Helmand, Afghanistan.
Combatant Status Review Tribunal
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 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.
Rasoul chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
Unlike other detainee's transcripts Rasoul's does not contain a point by point response to the allegations Rasoul faced in his CSRT's "summary of evidence". The transcript is only two pages long.
Rasoul's statement
Rasoul had traveled to Kabul just because he wanted to see the big city, and was caught there during the US bombardment, where he was injured. After his wounds were treated at a Chinese hospital in Kandahar, he returned to Konduz, the nearest city to the village where he lived.
When he heard that the Americans were approaching Konduz he sought them out to surrender himself. He praised the American efforts to rebuild Afghanistan’s irrigation infrastructure. He told the Tribunal how his elders had praised the Americans for their help during the Soviet occupation. He said he had been showing pictures, in Guantanamo, showing the progress of the reconstruction, and that this made him happy with the American intervention.
Rasoul's testimony
He acknowledged that he was with a Taliban leader, when he surrendered, and that he had a rifle, when he surrendered. But he said the rifle was forced on him by the Taliban.
Administrative Review Board hearing
Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings. The Administrative Review Boards weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".
They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat -- or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free.
The factors for and against continuing to detain Rasoul were among the 121 that the Department of Defense released on March 3 2006.
The following primary factors favor continued detention:
:a. Commitment
:#The detainee advised that he was called to fight Jihad in approximately 1997; he then went to Kabul to join the Taliban.
:#The detainee stated that he felt it would be fine to wage Jihad against Americans, Jews, or Israelis if they were invading his country.
:#The detainee was seriously wounded in a bombing shortly after joining the Taliban, and returned home to recuperate. In 1999, the detainee went to Kandahar to join up with the Taliban once again.
:#In approximately September of 2001, the detainee went to Konduz to join up with his Taliban comrades to fight the
His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 008.
JTF-GTMO analysts estimate he was born in 1973, in Helmand, Afghanistan.
Combatant Status Review Tribunal
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 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.
Rasoul chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
Unlike other detainee's transcripts Rasoul's does not contain a point by point response to the allegations Rasoul faced in his CSRT's "summary of evidence". The transcript is only two pages long.
Rasoul's statement
Rasoul had traveled to Kabul just because he wanted to see the big city, and was caught there during the US bombardment, where he was injured. After his wounds were treated at a Chinese hospital in Kandahar, he returned to Konduz, the nearest city to the village where he lived.
When he heard that the Americans were approaching Konduz he sought them out to surrender himself. He praised the American efforts to rebuild Afghanistan’s irrigation infrastructure. He told the Tribunal how his elders had praised the Americans for their help during the Soviet occupation. He said he had been showing pictures, in Guantanamo, showing the progress of the reconstruction, and that this made him happy with the American intervention.
Rasoul's testimony
He acknowledged that he was with a Taliban leader, when he surrendered, and that he had a rifle, when he surrendered. But he said the rifle was forced on him by the Taliban.
Administrative Review Board hearing
Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings. The Administrative Review Boards weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".
They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat -- or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free.
The factors for and against continuing to detain Rasoul were among the 121 that the Department of Defense released on March 3 2006.
The following primary factors favor continued detention:
:a. Commitment
:#The detainee advised that he was called to fight Jihad in approximately 1997; he then went to Kabul to join the Taliban.
:#The detainee stated that he felt it would be fine to wage Jihad against Americans, Jews, or Israelis if they were invading his country.
:#The detainee was seriously wounded in a bombing shortly after joining the Taliban, and returned home to recuperate. In 1999, the detainee went to Kandahar to join up with the Taliban once again.
:#In approximately September of 2001, the detainee went to Konduz to join up with his Taliban comrades to fight the
The Burning Book has been confirmed as the title of the upcoming album for Atlanta, Georgia rapper T-Rock®. It will be a double album. The Burning Book is slated for a release in early 2008, possibly as early as January, although this has not been confirmed. Expected guests include his Rock Solid Music labelmates and a few former label mates from his Hypnotize Minds days.
Dr Khalid A. Sethi, MD, Msc.
Born Nov 26th, 1971.
Finished Neurosurgery at the age of 29, with fellowships in Complex Spinal Deformity and Vascular Microneurosurgery, to become the youngest South Asian Neurosurgeon in the United States, and one of the Youngest boarded neurosurgeons in the world.
Dr. Sethi, member of several national and international neurosurgical organizations, has lectured extensively on minimally invasive and complex spinal neurosurgery. He had taught spinal surgery both in the United states, and abroad, and has been invited lecturer/Chair for the South Asian Neurosurgical Congress (SANS2007), and for Pakistan Society for Neurosciences (PSNS)
He is presently chair of neurosurgery at United Health Services, and at Lourdes Hospital, Ascension Health, in Binghamton, NY.
Dr Sethi is actively involved in clincal research projects, and remains a consultant to many companies for product development.
Born Nov 26th, 1971.
Finished Neurosurgery at the age of 29, with fellowships in Complex Spinal Deformity and Vascular Microneurosurgery, to become the youngest South Asian Neurosurgeon in the United States, and one of the Youngest boarded neurosurgeons in the world.
Dr. Sethi, member of several national and international neurosurgical organizations, has lectured extensively on minimally invasive and complex spinal neurosurgery. He had taught spinal surgery both in the United states, and abroad, and has been invited lecturer/Chair for the South Asian Neurosurgical Congress (SANS2007), and for Pakistan Society for Neurosciences (PSNS)
He is presently chair of neurosurgery at United Health Services, and at Lourdes Hospital, Ascension Health, in Binghamton, NY.
Dr Sethi is actively involved in clincal research projects, and remains a consultant to many companies for product development.