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This memo was released in April of 2005.^[1]

The allegations this detainee faced were:

a. The detainee is a member of al Qaida and supported al Qaida and the Taliban in military operations against the United States and its coalition partners:

1. During November 2001, the detainee traveled from Saudi Arabia through Jordan, Syria, and Iran (Tehran and Mashhad) to Herat, Afghanistan, then on to Kandahar and Kabul.
2. The detainee's name was found on a file in a computer used by suspected al Qaida members listing seventy-eight associates incarcerated in Pakistan.
3. The detainee's name and other information was found in a 02 September 2002 "chat session" found on the hard drive of a computer confiscated from members of the suspected al Qaida cell involved in the October 2002 attack on U.S. Marines on Faylaka Island.
4. The detainee's name, hometown, and mobile phone number was included in a list of eighty-four Mujahidin fighters captured as they crossed the border into Nangarhar Province, by the Pakistani Government.
5. The detainee's name and other personal information, was found on a hard drive that was associated with Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, a known high-level al Qaida operative, and which was seized during joint raids with the Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence Directorate on 01 March 2003, in Pakistan.
6. The detainee worked for the NGO al Wafa in Afghanistan.
7. The al Wafa Humanitarian Organization has been designated as an organization that assists in, sponsors, or provides financial, material, or technological support for, or financial or other services to, or in support of, acts of terrorism.
8. The detainee's name was found on a list of al Qaida Mujahidin and the contents of his "trust" account was found on files recovered from various computer media seized during raids on al Qaida safehouses in Rawalpindi, on 01 March 2003 and Karachi on 11 September 2002.
9. The detainee, along with other Arabs he was traveling with, was captured by the Pakistani Military in November 2001 while trying to cross into Pakistan from Afghanistan.

References

1. CSRT Summary of Evidence memoranda (.pdf) released in April 2005, Combatant Status Review Tribunals - October 27 2004 - page 80