The Ashara guest house was an
al Qaeda guest house located in ''"
Kart-E-Parwan district of
Kabul
Kabul (; ps, , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it is administratively divided into 22 municipal districts. Acco ...
, Afghanistan"''.
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The house was reported to have been managed by ]Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi
Nashwan Abdulrazaq Abdulbaqi al-Tamir (Arabic: نشوان عبدالرزاق عبدالباقي التامر), better known as Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi () is an Iraqi member of Al-Qaeda who is now in United States custody at Guantanamo Bay detenti ...
—widely described as al Qaeda
Al-Qaeda (; , ) is an Islamic extremist organization composed of Salafist jihadists. Its members are mostly composed of Arabs, but also include other peoples. Al-Qaeda has mounted attacks on civilian and military targets in various countr ...
's third in command.[
Abdul Zahir, the tenth Guantanamo captive to face charges before a Guantanamo military commission, was alleged to have worked under al Iraqi, and to have assisted him in running the guesthouse.][
The house was reported to have been jointly financed by al Qaeda and the Taliban Defense Ministry.][
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In addition to serving as Abdul Hadi's headquarters for paying his network, it is reported that the graduates of al Qaeda's Afghan training camps were billeted there, prior to their assignments.
The house was also known as the ''"Number Ten Safe House"''.[
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It was capable of housing 25-50 occupants.[
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Guantanamo captives
Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel,
Hail Aziz Ahmad al Maythal,
Omar Khalifa Mohammed Abu Bakr,
Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir,
Omar Deghayes and
Zuhail Abdo Anam Said Al Sharabi
The United States has held a total of 115 Yemeni citizens at Guantanamo Bay, forty-two of whom have since been transferred out of the facility. Only Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia had a greater number of their citizens held in the Guantanamo Bay dete ...
had their continued detention justified, in part, by allegations they had stayed at the guest house.[
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References
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Al-Qaeda facilities