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560 (85)
This memo was released in April of 2005.[1]
The allegations this detainee faced were:
- a. The detainee is associated with al Qaida and the Taliban:
- The detainee traveled to Afghanistan for military training in response to a fatwa.
- The detainee received the airline ticket to Pakistan and several hundred U.S. dollars from his facilitator.
- The detainee used a challenge and pass system to determine who was picking him up from the airport and transporting him to the safehouse.
- The detainee stayed at an al Qaida safehouse in Karachi, Pakistan run by a known al Qaida facilitator.
- The detainee attended weapons training on the Kalashnikov and the pistol at the al Farouq camp.
- The detainee knew al Qaida ran the al Farouq camp.
- The detainee saw Usama Bin Laden at the al Farouq camp.
- The detainee attended an Usama Bin Laden talk on Jihad in the Tora Bora mountains after 11 September 2001.
- The detainee met the deputy commander of al Qaida.
- One of the detainee's known aliases was on a list of captured al Qaida members that was discovered on a computer media recovered during raids on al Qaida-associated safehouses.
- One of the detainee's known aliases was on a list of captured al Qaida members that was discovered on a computer hard drive associated with a senior al Qaida member.
- The detainee has extensive knowledge of encampments, defensive positions, and operations in the Tora Bora region.
References
[edit]- ↑ CSRT Summary of Evidence memoranda (.pdf) released in April 2005, Combatant Status Review Tribunals - October 27 2004 - page 85