ISN: 569
Nationality: Yemeni
The following is a summary of the allegations against
Zuhail 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.
Zuhail told US
interrogators he was a member of Al Qaeda, a claim he later denied. Five
Guantanamo prisoners identified Zuhail as being a bodyguard for Osama Bin
Laden. Waleed Bin Attash said that he and Zuhail received training in English,
reading airline timetables and how to function in western cities in December
1999. The US government believes that this means that Zuhail was part of an
aborted part of the 9/11 attacks that involved high jacking planes belonging to
US airlines and crashing them into US military facilities in Asia. Zuhail admitted
to traveling to Malaysia, where the plot was allegedly being planned. Zuhail
admitted he was sent to the front lines in Afghanistan to fight against US and
coalition forces. He claims he never used his weapon or killed anyone.
Zuhail was captured in
February 2002 during a raid by Pakistan’s ISI on a suspected Al Qaeda safe house
in Karachi, Pakistan. He was later transferred to US custody. He arrived at
Guantanamo in May 2002.
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