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- a. Commitment
- The detainee based his decision to go to Afghanistan on television and radio news reports as well as a fatwa issued by a Sheikh.
- The detainee did not tell his parent or friends about his trip. The detainee felt that they would worry that he would get killed conducting jihad in Afghanistan. Despite this fact, the detainee sold his business and took his life savings with him to Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
- However, the detainee left Yemen and traveled to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and then on to Mecca. The detainee stayed in Mecca and paid approximately 40,000 Yemen for the ticket.
- In Mecca, the detainee heard people talking about Afghanistan and jihad. The detainee heard that Afghanistan was the only place where the laws of God are being implemented. The sheikh talked about the necessity of jihad with the Taliban.
- From Mecca the detainee went from Jeddah to Karachi, Pakistan with a friend. The detainee and his friend paid for their own tickets, costing 3,000 Riyals each. The detainee carried 2,700 United States Dollars and 1,500 Saudi Riyals. The detainee stated that the money came from his business. The detainee did not maintain a bank account.
- The detainee did not stay in Karachi very long. The detainee and his friend purchased tickets for 50 United States Dollars and went to Peshawar, Pakistan.
- An al Qaida and a Libyan Islamic Fighting Group facilitator, was certain the detainee left the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. The facilitator believed the detainee had a jihadist philosophy and wanted to die a martyr's death.
- The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group emerged in 1995 among Libyans who had fought against Soviet forces in Afghanistan. The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group declared the government of Libyan leader, Muammar Qadhafi, un-Islamic and pledged to overthrow it. Some members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group maintain a strictly anti-Qadhafi focus and organize against Libyan Government interests, but others are aligned with Usama bin Laden's al Qaida organization or are active in the international Mujahedin network. The group was designated for asset freeze under E.0.13224 and U.N.S.C.R. 1333 in September 2001.
- b. Training
- Sources say the detainee was in Afghanistan in approximately 1991 . The detainee had undergone military training at the al Farouq and Salman al Farisi camps . The detainee participated in several Afghan battles, including Lukar and Qardiz, but mostly in the battle of Jalalabad. In 1991 the detainee joined the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and might have been supporting the military committee.
- The detainee was in the possession of a Casio model F-91 W watch. This model has been used in bombings that have been linked to al Qaida and radical Islamic terrorist improvised explosive devices.
- c. Connections/Associations
- A senior al Qaida operative identified the detainee as a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.
- A senior al Qaida operative recognized the detainee. The operative said that the only time he met the detainee was in 2000 at the Kandahar airport camp in Afghanistan. The operative also added that the detainee was not training at the camp, but simply sitting with the brothers. The operative said the detainee walked with were evacuating Jalalabad, the detainee collected money from several of the Arabs in order to get married. The detainee said that when arrested, many of the brothers had 50-100 United States Dollars in their possession, however the detainee had 1,000 United States Dollars so the U.S. military assumed he was very rich.
- A senior al Qaida operative said the detainee was arrested with him in Tora Bora, Afghanistan in December 2001. The operative said that the detainee was handicapped due to a childhood illness, and as such, he was of no benefit to any of the fighting groups in Afghanistan. As a result of the detainee's condition, he lived off the charity of others. He said the detainee had no relationship with al Qaida or the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. In late 2001, as the Arabs were evacuating Jalalabad, the detainee collected money from several of the Arabs in order to get married. The detainee said that when arrested, many of the brothers had 50-100 United States Dollars in their possession, however the detainee had 1,000 United States Dollars so the U.S. military assumed he was very rich.
- The detainee lived in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, but traveled frequently to Kabul, Afghanistan and Pakistan as a member of the Jamat-al-Tabligh. The detainee received support from the Jamat-al-Tabligh for two years from 1999 to 2001.
- The detainee traveled and worked as a paid employee of the Jamat-al-Tabligh with an Islamic missionary group in Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
- Jamat-al-Tabligh is a Pakistan based Islamic missionary organization used as a cover to mask travel and activities of terrorists, including members of al Qaida.
- d. Intent
- The detainee stated that he does not want to go back to Libya due to his association to the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.
- e. Other Relevant Data
- The detainee said some brothers, whose identities he refused to reveal, helped him get a visa for Saudi Arabia and Pakistan from their respective consulates in Benghazi.
- When arrested the detainee had 1,800 United States Dollars, 1,500 Saudi Riyals, and an unknown amount of Afghan and Pakistan money in his possession. The detainee also had medicine, a spoon and a watch he bought in the Jalalabad market.
- The detainee originally lied about his true name and nationality because he was afraid of being sent back to Libya.
- The detainee is handicapped with an artificial leg as result of polio.
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The detainee denied having any knowledge of the attacks in the United States prior to
their execution on 11 September 2001 and also denied knowledge of any rumors or plans of
future attacks on the United States or United States interests.
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The detainee was queried regarding any knowledge or planning of internal uprisings at the
Guantanamo Detention facility with negative results.
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The detainee's plans were to go to a Majid, pray, do the Amra and return to Yemen. The
detainee also thought about immigrating to Afghanistan, getting married and settling down.
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The detainee traveled to Afghanistan to teach the Koran and possible meet a wife.
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When the detainee was living in Libya he considered himself an Islamist , but stated he did
not belong to any religious groups that advocated the overthrow of the government and
implementation of an Islamic state.
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The detainee advises that none of his material spoke ofjihad or advocated any type of
violence or rebellion.
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The detainee decided he wanted to get married, so he found an Afghan girl, whom he was
supposed to marry after Ramadan.
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The detainee denied that he had ever fought or received any training on any type of
weapons at any training camp.
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About July 2001, the detainee was introduced to a woman who was 18 to 20 years old, and they were engaged. During his stay in Jalalabad, the source did not work and traveled two or three times a week to the Heart Shari Naw mosque in Kabul via taxi.
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