ISN: 682
Nationality: Saudi
The following is a summary of the allegations against Ghassan al Sharabi found in publicly available US military documents. If US military
documents about this prisoner are inaccurate or misleading then this summary
will be as well. The introduction
to this set of summaries explains some of the terms used below.
Ghassan stayed at a guest
hose run by Abu Zubaydah in Faisalabad, Pakistan. Abdullah says that he arrived
at the house in mid-February 2002. He says he taught classes to the other
residents of the house in computers and English. Ghassan would later tell US
interrogators that he thought the house was being financed by an Arab student
society and that if he knew the residents of the house were fighters he would
not have stayed there.
Two other prisoners at Guantanamo
identified Ghassan as having attended Al-Farouq, an Al Qaeda training camp.
The unclassified summery
of one of Ghassan’s Administrative Review Boards says that he was trained on
how to construct remote control devises that could be used to detonate car
bombs to attack US forces in Afghanistan. The ARB said that another planned use
for the devises was to detonate a bomb in the United States with a mobile phone
in Pakistan. The evidence for this accusation is not stated.
Pakistani forces captured Ghassan
in a raid on the guesthouse on March 28, 2002. He was later transferred to US
custody. He was sent to Guantanamo in June 2002.
Ghassan was charged in the
first version of the military commissions. The charges were dismissed after
that version of the military commissions was declared unconstitutional by the
Supreme Court in Hamdan v Rumsfeld.
Ghassan was charged with
conspiracy and material support for terrorism in January 2009. The charges were
dismissed without prejudice in January 2013.
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