Mohammad Ahmad Ghulam Rabbani

ISN: 1461

Nationality: Pakistani

The following is a summary of the allegations against Mohammad Rabbani 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.   

Mohammad told US interrogators that he trained for seven months in a militant training camp near Khowst, Afghanistan and then trained for two months at the Khaldan militant training camp. Mohammad attempted to travel to Kashmir to fight but was arrested at the Afghan-Pakistan border. As a result he spent 1995 and 1996 in prison. Mohammad also told US interrogators that he transported al Qaeda fighters between Karachi and Kandahar. He also said that he was paid by KSM to drive him around in a taxi. 

Mohammad would later deny being anything other than a taxi driver and promised to not return to fighting if released.

Mohammad was captured by Pakistan’s ISI in September 2002 after a raid on a suspected Al Qaeda safe house in Karachi. He was later transferred to US custody. He arrived at Guantanamo in September 2004.

Mohammad was recommended for prosecution by Obama’s Guantanamo task force in January 2010.  

Abdul Rabbani Abd al Rahim Abu Rahman

ISN: 1460

Nationality: Pakistani

The following is a summary of the allegations against Abdul Rahman 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.   

Abdul told US interrogators he trained at the Khalden militant training camp in Afghanistan. He also told US interrogators he worked as a cook in al Qaeda safe houses in Karachi. He also said that he cooked, cleaned, and transported computers and electronic components for al Qaeda. Abdul was captured in a raid by the ISI, Pakistan’s equivalent of the CIA during raids on Karachi safe houses in September 2002. He was later transferred to US custody. He arrived at Guantanamo in September 2004.

Abdul was recommended for prosecution by Obama’s Guantanamo task force in January 2010.

Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash

ISN: 1456

Nationality: Yemeni

The following is a summary of the allegations against Hassan Attash 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.   

Hassan told US interrogators that he attended the Khaldan and Jihal Wahl militant training camps in Afghanistan.

Hassan admitted to delivering funds and letters to two commanders in Kandahar for KSM. The funds were to be used to start a military campaign against American troops in the Kandahar region.

Hassan admitted to participating in a plot to attack oil tankers in the Straits of Hormuz and off the coast of Yemen. 

 

Ahmed al Darbi claimed Hassan contacted him to arrange delivery of funds for the operation. Hassan later claimed he did not take an active part in any of the planning or execution of the boat attacks against American vessels.

KSM said that he told Hassan to deliver remote-control devices to Quetta, Pakistan, for Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi. Al-Hadi was preparing IED to use against US and coalition forces.

Hassan was captured in September 2002 in a series of raids by Pakistan’s ISI on a series of suspected Al Qaeda safe houses in Karachi, Pakistan. 

 

Journalist Andy Worthington says that Hassan was either 16 or 17 when he was captured. 

 

Hassan was later transferred to US custody. He arrived at Guantanamo in September 2004.

In December 2002, the United States ratified the “UN Optional Protocol on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict,” which says that signatories must ensure, “the physical and psychological reintegration” of child soldiers.

Hassan was recommended for prosecution by Obama’s Guantanamo task force in January 2010. 

Hassan Attash has spent over 9 years at Guantanamo. 

 

 

Abu Faraj al Libi

ISN: 10017

Nationality: Libyan

The following is a summary of the allegations against Abu al Libi 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.   

Abu Faraj al Libi acknowledged working as a trainer and administrator of the Al Qaeda al-Faruq Training Camp from 1993 to 1998, according to his Detainee Assessment Brief (DAB). Also according to his DAB Abu said that starting in 2003 he served as a courier between Osama Bin Laden and others in Pakistan.

Abu’s DAB says he “is a senior al-Qaida member who managed al-Qaida operations, to include al-Qaida operations in Iraq, once KU-10024 was captured, and had control over al-Qaida operations against US and Coalition forces within Afghanistan. Detainee planned and executed operations against the US and other nations, including an alleged 2003 assassination attempt against President Musharraf of Pakistan. Detainee also provided safe havens for UBL and senior al-Qaida leader Dr. Ayman al Zawahiri in 2001 and 2003. Detainee served as an instructor and administrator at two al Qaida training camps in Afghanistan where he also received formal militant training. Detainee further managed two al-Qaida guesthouses and fought on the Afghan front lines in support of the Taliban.”

Abu was arrested by Pakistani Special Forces in May 2005. He was later transferred to US custody. He was sent to Guantanamo in September 2006.

Abu declined to attend his Combatant Status Review Tribunal and said through his personal representative that his case should be handled through a “judicial procedure,” a trial, rather than an “administrative procedure” like a CSRT.

Abu was recommended for prosecution by Obama’s Guantanamo task force in January 2010. 

Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed al Sawah

ISN: 535

Nationality: Egyptian

The following is a summary of the allegations against Tariq al Sawah 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.   

Tariq told US interrogators that he taught courses in explosives at the Tarnak Farm Al Qaeda training camp. 

Tariq’s Detainee Assessment Brief (DAB) says that he developed a design for a shoe-bomb that was similar to the design of the shoe-bomb used by Richard Reid in a failed 2001 al Qaeda plot to bring down an airplane. 

Tariq fought against the Northern Alliance, the Afghan allies of the US in the Afghan war, in 2001.

Tariq’s DAB says that he was injured by a cluster bomb as he was fleeing to Pakistan with a group of al Qaeda fighters. 

 

An Afghan offered to take him to Jalalabad for medical attention. Instead he turned Tariq over to the Northern Alliance. 

 

After a month and a half, the Northern Alliance turned Tariq over to the United States. He was sent to Guantanamo in May 2002.

In 2008, Tariq was recommended for release because of the valuable intelligence he provided US interrogators regarding al-Qaeda. 

 

His DAB says that he, “has provided valuable and extensive amounts of information which has been instrumental in understanding the ideologies and methods used by terrorist groups.”

Later in 2008, Tariq was charged with conspiracy and material support for terrorism. 

 

In 2010 Obama’s interagency Guantanamo task force recommended Tariq for prosecution. 

 

The charges were dismissed in March 2012.

Lawyers for Tariq, and doctors they have brought to examine him, say that he is now an obese man with diabetes who is barely able to walk 10 feet. He may not make it out of Guantanamo alive. 

 

Egypt is pressuring the United States to release him.  

 

 

 

UPDATE (2/23/14): Former FBI Agent Ali Soufan explained in his autobiography that the allegation connecting Sawah to the attempted shoe bombing attack was based on conclusions from inexperienced interrogators. 

"I found out that the military interrogators had said to him: 'You’re an explosives expert. If you were to build a shoe bomb, how would you do it?' He had drawn them a diagram. That diagram constituted their 'proof.' It turned out that it was a bad drawing, unrepresentative of the shoe bomb Reid used … They were novice interrogators and didn’t understand that you can’t just jump to those kinds of conclusions. They admitted that they had messed up."

 

 
 

Abdul Zahir

ISN: 753

Nationality: Afghan

The following is a summary of the allegations against Abdul Zahir 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.   

Abdul told US interrogators he worked as a translator for Abd al Hadi al Iraqi. Abdul says that he worked for money, not for political views or purpose.

According to his DAB Abdul told US interrogators that he was in a car when one of his friends threw a grenade at a vehicle carrying two journalists and their translator in Afghanistan in March 2002. Abdul’s DAB says that he was aware of Bilal’s possession of the grenades and his intentions and did not attempt to stop the attack or turn him in after the attack.

Abdul told his CSRT that he played no role in the attack and that he simply told his interrogators the names of the people involved in the attack.

Abdul was charged for his alleged role in the attack in the first version of the military commissions. The charges were dropped after that version of the military commissions was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld in 2006. He has not been charged since.

His DAB says that Abdul wrote a letter to a released Guantanamo prisoner saying that, “we will die as martyrs we will have fun (going touring) during our freedom.” His DAB also says he wrote in a book at Guantanamo that, “The Almighty said ‘fight the unbelievers-they have no faith.’ When we fight America the head of the unbelievers, we destroy the decay in earth; we hit the head of the sneak to kill the whole body.”

Abdul was captured when US forces raided his home in Afghanistan in July 2002. He was later transferred to US custody. He arrived at Guantanamo in October 2002.

Abdul was recommended for prosecution by Obama’s Guantanamo task force in January 2010. 

Sanad Yislam al Kazimi

ISN: 1453

Nationality: Yemeni

The following is a summary of the allegations against Sanad Yislam al Kazimi 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.   

Sanad told US interrogators that he was arrested in 1994 for destroying tombstones in Yemen after a fatwa was issued by an Islamic sheik saying that tombstones were illegal under Islamic law. He also said that he was trained at the Al Qaeda training camp Al Faruq. He said he served as a bodyguard for Osama Bin Laden. This claim is corroborated by 4 other Guantanamo prisoners. Sanad admitted involvement in an al-Qaida plot to fly an airplane into a ship in Port Rashid, Arab Emirates, a port often used by US Navy vessels. Sanad later said he had never heard of the plot.

Sanad told US interrogators, “that all Muslims are against the US, even Muslims in the US,” and that he could raise 100,000 dollars in any mosque in the US in 30 minutes for Muslims to use to fight Americans in any country. Sanad also expressed his support for Osama bin Laden and made threats against US personnel including the President.  

Sanad’s DAB says that he was arrested after two Al Qaeda operatives cooperated with local authorities and lured Sanad to Dubai. Sanad was later transferred to US custody. He arrived at Guantanamo in September 2004.

Sanad was recommended for prosecution by Obama’s Guantanamo task force in January 2010.