ISN: 696
Nationality: Saudi
The following is a summary of the allegations against
Jabran al Qahtani 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.
Jabran said he went to
Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks to fight the Americans. He told US
interrogators that he attended a militant training camp in a camp north of
Kabul. He also said he was trained at a camp in Faisalabad, Pakistan on how to
construct electronic circuit boards to be used as timing devises in bombs to be
used against US forces in Afghanistan. Jabran said if he was released he would
immediately return to Afghanisan to fight the Americans. He also said he wanted
to kill President Karzai of Afghanistan and King Fahad of Saudi Arabia because,
“they were Americans.”
Jabran would later deny
any involvement with al Qaeda, other terrorist organizations, going to
Afghanistan to obtain training, or bomb making. Jabran was captured in a safe
house in Faisalabad, Pakistan by Pakistani forces. Jabran’s ARB summary said
that at the time of his capture he was surrounded by electrical engineers,
explosives specialists, electronics equipment, and handwritten training
manuals. Jabran was later transferred to US custody. He arrived at Guantanamo
in August 2002.
Jabran was charged in the
first version of the military commissions. The charges were dismissed when that
version of the commissions was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in
Hamdan v Rumsfeld.
In May 2008 Jabran was
charged in a military commission with conspiracy and material support for
terrorism. Those charges were dismissed without prejudice in August 2008. He
was charged again in January 2009. Those charges were dismissed without
prejudice in January 2013.
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