Each of the 16 high value detainees is detailed below, including a description of the following elements:

• Summary of charges against the detainee

• Current Military Commission status

• Country of origin

 - Muhammed Rahim al-Aghani

Mr. Al-Afghani was captured in Pakistan in July, 2007.  He was delivered to the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility in March, 2008.  The detainee’s nom de guerre indicates he is from Afghanistan.   As of September 29, 2009, he has been held at Guantanamo Bay for 18 months.  

There are no public documents available on Mr. Al-Afghani.

- Abd al Aziz Ali

Mr. Ali was captured in Pakistan in April, 2003.  He was delivered to the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility in September, 2006.  Mr. Ali is a citizen of Pakistan. 

Abd al Aziz Ali wired over $100,000 to the September 11, 2001 hijackers for expenses.  He spoke regularly with Mohammed Atta and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, his uncle.  On September 9 or 10, 2001, the detainee suddenly left the United Arab Emirates without packing his belongings.  Mr. Ali was arrested in 2003 while awaiting the delivery of explosives to be used against the U.S. Consulate in Karachi. 

United States of America v. Abd al Aziz Ali:  Proceedings resume November 16, 2009

- Ramzi Bin al Shibh

Ramzi Bin al-Shibh was captured in Pakistan in September, 2002.  He was delivered to the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility in September, 2006.  Mr. al-Shibh is a citizen of Yemen. 

Mr. al-Shibh lived with September 11th hijackers Mohammed Atta and Marwan al-Sheddi.  He traveled with Atta, al-Sheddi, and another September 11th hijacker, Ziad Jarrah to Pakistan in 1999-2000.  Al-Qaeda’s military commander, Sayf al-Adl lists the detainee as a “highly professional jihadist” in his diary.  The detainee met regularly with Osama Bin Laden regarding the September 11th plot.  Mr. al-Shibh served as the European liaison for the hijackers while they were in flight training in the United States.  He attempted to enter the United States on four different occasions in 2000 to attend flight school.  Al-Shibh wired thousands of dollars to the September 11th hijackers. 

In an al-Jazeera television interview in June, 2002, the detainee discussed, with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the preparation and execution of the September 11th plot.  Al-Shibh was captured in Pakistan with large quantities of high explosives, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and passports for Osama Bin Laden’s family members.

Mr. al-Shibh has filed suit to stop Military Tribunals calling them unconstitutional. 

United States of America v. Ramzi Bin al-Shibh:  Proceedings resume November 16, 2009

- Walid Bin Attash

Walid Bin Attash was captured in Pakistan in April, 2003.  He was delivered to the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility in September, 2006.  Mr. Bin Attash is a citizen of Yemen. 

Mr. Bin Attash informed the Al Qaeda suicide bomber (Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali) of his upcoming martyrdom attack on an Embassy of the United States in East Africa.  The suicide bomber survived the attack in Kenya and was captured.  Mr. Bin Attash was the facilitator of the close-combat training class that was held at the Lowgar training camp in Afghanistan.  The class and Mr. Bin Attash would meet with Osama Bin Laden about the operation plan for the attacks on the U.S. Embassies in East Africa.  The detainee has also been a bodyguard for Osama Bin Laden.  In addition Mr. Bin Attash was a facilitator of the attack on the USS COLE that killed 17 American sailors.

He has filed suit to stop Military Tribunals calling them unconstitutional.

United States of America v. Walid Bin Attash: Proceedings resume November 16, 2009

- Gouled Hassan Dourad

Gouled Hassan Dourad was captured in 2004.  He was delivered to the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility in September, 2006.  Mr. Dourad is a citizen of Somalia. 

 Mr. Dourad was identified as a prominent Al-Ittihad al-Islami (AIAI) jihadist and as the leader of the Al-Qaeda terrorist cell in Djibouti.  He was recruited by a senior Al-Qaeda operative who was involved in the East African Embassy bombings.  AIAI is listed on the Department of Homeland Security’s Terrorist Exclusion List for being known to commit or incite acts which cause death or serious injury, prepare and plan terrorist attacks and provide material support to terrorist activity.  AIAI has been affiliated with al-Qaeda and Pakistani based al-Qaeda operatives.  Dourad has trained in jihadist camps along the Afghani-Pakistani border during the 1990s.  He was trained in guerilla warfare, explosives, and marksmanship.  He later trained at the AIAI camp in Lugh, Somalia.  He participated in AIAI operations in Mogadishu which killed Ethiopian citizens. 

Mr. Dourad has not yet been charged.

- Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was captured in Pakistan in July, 2004.  He was delivered to the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility in September, 2006.  Mr. Ghailani is a citizen of Tanzania.   

Mr. Ghailani purchased the 1987 Nissan Atlas truck used to bomb the U.S Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.  He also purchased the explosives and detonators, and scouted the building just before the bombing.

After the Tanzania bombing he fled to Afghanistan, where he allegedly served as a bodyguard and cook for Osama bin Laden and helped forge documents for al-Qaeda.  He’s the first detainee transferred into Federal custody to stand trial on American soil, June 9th, 2009. Mr. Ghailani has denied buying the truck and says he was unaware of the  bomb plot.  He faces 224 counts of murder and scores of other charges.  Many call his trial the “Gitmo test case.”  No trial date has been set. 

Mr. Ghailani has been charged with war crimes. 

- Riduan Isamuddin Hambali

Riduan Isamuddin Hambali was captured in Thailand in August, 2003.  He was delivered to the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility in September, 2006.  The detainee is a citizen of Indonesia.

Mr. Hambali was the operations chief of Jemaah Islamiyah, a militant and violent Islamic group, and was the main contact and link between Jemaah Islamiyah and Al-Qaeda.  He is also the leader of the Malaysia Mujahedin group which seeks to topple the Malaysian government.  Mr. Hambali discussed and encouraged the bombing of Christian churches in Indonesia in mid-2000 and then funded the bombers.  On December 24, 2000, 18 people were killed after churches were bombed.  Mr. Hambali supervised a plan to bomb the American, Australian, British embassies in Singapore.  He also developed plans to bomb the Yishan mass transit station in Singapore.  The detainee planned in early 2002 to bomb bars, nightclubs, and cafes frequented by Westerners.  In October, 2002, 187 people were killed when an explosion destroyed a nightclub in Bali. 

 Mr. Hambali has not been charged.   

 - Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi

Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi was captured in Pakistan in March, 2003.  He was delivered to the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility in September, 2006.  The detainee is a citizen of Saudi Arabia. 

Mr. al-Hawsawi was the funneling point for tens of thousands of dollars that September 11th hijackers sent back to Al-Qaeda.  On September 11, 2001 the detainee left the United Arab Emirates and flew to Karachi, Pakistan.  Captured Al-Qaeda documents and electronic records list Mr. al-Hawsawi’s expense reports and family allowance reports submitted to the organization.  Other electronic documents captured along with Mr. al-Hawsawi list members of Al-Qaeda’s Yemeni branch and lists of Al-Qaeda members who have been wounded or killed.

He is said to have been involved with the September 11th attacks and received several wire transfers of funds from more than one of the hijackers. A 19-page telephone and address book that contained contact information of numerous al-Qaida operatives was found in a laptop computer associated with the detainee.  Mr. al-Hawsawi has also filed suit to stop Military Tribunals calling them unconstitutional.

United States of America v. Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi: Proceedings resume November 16, 2009

 - Abd al Hadi al-Iraqi

Abd al Hadi al-Iraqi was captured in 2006.  He was delivered to the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility in April, 2007. The detainee’s nom de guerre indicates he is from Iraq.   

There are no public documents available on Mr. Al-Iraqi. 

 - Majid Khan

Majid Khan was captured in Pakistan in March, 2003.  He was delivered to the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility in September, 2006.  He is a citizen of Pakistan. 

Mr. Khan recruited young men to travel to Afghanistan and Pakistan as late as mid-2001 from his family’s home in Baltimore, Maryland.  Mr. Khan was involved in transporting people in and out of Afghanistan and Pakistan and then to points beyond.  He worked with an Al-Qaeda volunteer in the United States to try to re-enter the United States by deceiving the Immigrations and Naturalization Service.  The purpose of entering the United States was to commit a terrorist attack.

Mr. Khan has not been charged.

- Abu Faraj al Libbi

Abu Faraj al Libbi was captured in Pakistan in May, 2005.  He was delivered to the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility in September, 2006.  He is a citizen of Libya. 

Abu Faraj al Libbi was the deputy to the third in command of Al-Qaeda.  He was the supervisor of an Al-Qaeda training camp in Khowst, and created an urban warfare training camp in Kabul.  Mr. al-Libbi was the supervisor of an Al-Qaeda communications site in 2002, in addition to being the supervisor of the Kabul communications hub in summer of 2001.  The detainee was a senior Al-Qaeda facilitator and took care of Al-Qaeda families living in Pakistan.  He vetted and transported new Al-Qaeda fighters from Pakistan into Afghanistan.  In December, 2003, Mr. al-Libbi met with representatives of Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin, Taliban officials and other Islamic fighters in Raiwand Pakistan to discuss operations against Coalition Forces in Afghanistan.  In September, 2004, Mr. al-Libbi met with other al-Qaeda members in Syria to discuss terrorist operations including planned attacks in the United States, Europe, and Australia.

Mr. al-Libbi has not been charged.

 - Lillie (Mohammed Nazir Bin Lep)

Lillie was captured in Thailand in August, 2003.  He was delivered to the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility in September, 2006.  Lillie is a citizen of Malaysia. 

Lillie facilitated the bombing of the J.W. Marriott in Jakarta in August 2003.  He received $30,000 to purchase the supplies and equipment needed for the attack.  Lillie transferred the remaining sum to Jemaah Islamiya, a militant and violent Islamic group.  The detainee shared a house with Hambali, the Jemaah Islamiya operations emir during basic explosives training.  Later, he shared a home in Karachi with the leader of an Al-Qaeda suicide squad.  Lillie was identified as a member of a suicide squad tasked to participate in an attack on a building in the United States.  After his capture during a search of his home, an M-16 with ammunition was found along with documents to make bombs, grenades, vest bombs, dry ice bombs, and nitric acid.     

Lillie has not been charged.

 - Khalid Shaikh Mohammed

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was captured in Pakistan in March, 2003.  He was delivered to the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility in September, 2006.  Mr. Mohammed is a citizen of Pakistan. 

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed served as the head of the Al-Qaeda military committee and was the principal director and planner of the September 11th attacks on the United States.  During an interview with al-Jazeera television, Mr. Mohammed said he was the head of the al-Qaeda military committee.  The detainee received funds from Kuwaiti based Islamic groups and delivered the monies to Al-Qaeda members.  Mr. Mohammed designed the “bojinka plot” to destroy 10 American passenger planes over the Pacific Ocean when they were full of people.  The detainee was in charge of and funded an operation against U.S military vessels heading to the port of Djibouti.  When Mr. Mohammed was captured, he was in the possession of information used to communicate with the senior leadership of Al-Qaeda, documents on the training requirements of Al-Qaeda cells, chat logs with September 11th hijackers, and three letters from Osama Bin Laden. 

In September, 2009, Mohammed tried to fire his civilian lawyers.

United States of America v. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed: Proceedings resume November 16, 2009

 - Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri

Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri was captured in the United Arab Emirates in October, 2002.  He was delivered to the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center in September, 2006.  He is a citizen of Saudi Arabia. 

Abd al Rahim al Nashiri has received military training and explosives training and has trained others in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Chechnya.  Mr. al-Nashiri facilitated the entry of the Nairobi suicide bomber into Kenya with a false Yemeni passport.  Two hundred twenty-four people died, including twelve Americans following that attack.  The detainee purchased the boat and the explosives and transported them to Aden for the attack on the USS COLE.  Seventeen American sailors died in the October, 2000 attack. 

United States of America v. Abd al Rahim al Nashiri: Charges dropped without prejudice, February 6, 2009 and Mr. al-Nashiri remains at Guantanamo Bay.

- Zubair (Mohd Farik Bin Amin)

Mr. Zubair was captured in 2003.  He arrived at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility in September, 2006.  He is a citizen of Malaysia.   

Mr. Zubair worked with detainee Hambali and detainee Lillie to deliver the funds needed for the J.W. Marriott bombing in August, 2003.  Twelve people were killed in that attack.  The detainee and other Jemaah Islamiya operatives left money and instructions for another operative to set off a car bomb in Cambodia. 

Mr. Zubair has not been charged.  

- Abu Zubaydah

Abu Zubaydah was captured in Pakistan in March, 2002.  He arrived at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility in September, 2006.  His nom de guerre indicates he is the father of Zubaydah.  Abu Zubaydah is a citizen of the Palestinian Authority. 

Abu Zubaydah was the Emir of the Khalden and Deronta jihadist training camps in Afghanistan.   He was considered an equal to Osama Bin Laden.  Abu Zubaydah’s jihadist camps trained the 2000 New Year bomber (Ahmed Ressam), and others how to attack American warships, hotels, barracks of American military personnel, and commercial/economic targets.  The detainee transported $600,000 from Kuwait to Afghanistan for Osama Bin Laden.  In the days before the September 11th attacks, Abu Zubaydah wrote in his diary that he was preparing for American military action by stockpiling weapons and preparing defenses.

Abu Zubaydah has not been charged.