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Faisalabad Three
The Faisalabad Three is a term used to refer to three of Guantanamo detainees facing charges before military commissions. Jabran Said bin al Qahtani, Sufyian Barhoumi and Ghassan Abdullah al Sharbi were captured in a safehouse in Faisalabad, Pakistan, together with approximately a dozen other suspects, including a senior member of the Al Qaeda leadership, Abu Zubaydah. Summarized transcripts (.pdf) from Ghassan Abdallah Ghazi Al Shirbi's''Combatant Status Review Tribunal'' - pages 26-30 Barhoumi, al Qahtani, and al Sharbi have all tried to decline legal representation. Abdul Zahir, the tenth Guantanamo detainee to face charges, was also captured in that safehouse. Faisalabad is the home of Salafi University, a donation supported religious institution that provides free room and board to international students—a number of these were captured on suspicion of being tied to terrorism. Hamdan v. Rumsfeld ruling and the Military Commissions Act In the summer of 2006, the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Guantanamo Bay Detainees
As of October 29, 2022, This list of Guantánamo prisoners has the known identities of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, but is compiled from various sources and is incomplete. In official documents, the United States Department of Defense (DoD) continues to make intermittent efforts to redact prisoner's names. they had not published an official list of detainees. On April 19, 2006, the DoD released a list with 558 names in what appears to be a fax or other scanned image.'List of detainees who went through complete CSRT process' (PDF, scanned) '' |
Abdul Zahir (Guantanamo Detainee 753)
Abdul Zahir (عبدالظاهر) is a citizen of Afghanistan currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. He was the tenth captive, and the first Afghan, to face charges before the first Presidentially authorized Guantanamo military commissions. After the Supreme Court ruled that the President lacked the constitutional authority to set up military commissions, the United States Congress passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006. He was not charged under that system. Zahir was approved for transfer on July 11, 2016. On January 17, 2017, four days before the inauguration of Donald Trump, ten men were transferred from Guantanamo, while American and Oman officials declined to identify the men, Abdul Zahir's lawyer told the ''Associated Press'' that he had been released. Background Abdul Zahir was transferred to Guantanamo on October 28, 2002. Zahir was charged with conspiracy, aiding the enemy and atta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
