Riyadh, alternately Riad, alternately Riyadh the facilitator, is a
pseudonym that was given to a number of individuals who were suspected to be member of
al-Qaeda
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. American intelligence officials and the press used the pseudonym for at least two individuals.
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In an interview with ''
National Public Radio''
Douglas Cox
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Cox received his early training at the State Violin Making School in Mittenwald, Ge ...
, a law Professor at
City University of New York
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stated that one of his clients who was a
Guantanamo detainee,
Riyadh al-Haigh,
was suspected by American intelligence officials of being Riyadh the facilitator.
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Human Rights Watch continued to believe he was held in CIA custody into 2005.
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According to an article published in ''
U.S. News & World Report'' in May 2003 a man called
Riyadh was ''"responsible for managing al Qaeda's affairs in Pakistan"''.
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They reported he was captured in
Karachi in January 2002. They reported that he was the first senior al Qaeda member to be captured, and that his capture lead to a chain of captures that included
Abu Zubaydah,
Jose Padilla,
Omar al Farouq, and
Ramzi bin al-Shibh. Some of their findings are based on unnamed intelligence sources.
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Collective pseudonyms