Mohammad Mani Ahmad al-Qahtani was despatched from Guantanamo bay to Saudi Arabia, in response to the Protection Division.
He has been accused of being "twentieth hijacker" in September eleventh terrorist plot.
In June 2021, a evaluation board discovered that al-Qahtani was not a risk to nationwide safety and really useful that he be repatriated to Saudi Arabia. In February, Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Protection, notified Saudi Arabia of the choice.
The Protection Division said in a assertion that the US appreciated Saudi Arabia's willingness to help U.S. efforts in direction of a deliberate, thorough course of targeted on accountable decreasing detainee populations and shutting Guantanamo Bay.
Shayana Kadidal is the senior managing legal professional for the Guantanamo Challenge on the Middle for Structure Rights. She mentioned that al-Qahtani suffers from schizophrenia since childhood. In 2002, an FBI official witnessed al-Qahtani crouching within the nook of his cell, listening to voices, and protecting himself with a sheet for hours. Kadidal said that al-Qahtani had repeatedly tried to kill himself.
The Middle for Constitutional Rights said in a February assertion that an impartial psychiatrist examined al-Qahtani at Guantanamo. He confirmed that he had been identified with schizophrenia in 2016. All army docs agreed with this conclusion.
Susan Crawford, the Bush administration's senior official chargeable for deciding whether or not Guantanamo Bay detainees needs to be delivered to trial, declined al-Qahtani’s case as a result of he had been tortured in Guantanamo Bay.
In keeping with The Washington Publish, Crawford said that "His therapy was per the authorized definitions of torture." "And that is the rationale I did not refer the case."
In beforehand categorized court docket paperwork from 2016, authorities accuses al-Qahtani "virtually definitely chosen" by senior al Qaeda members because the twentieth hijacker within the 9/11 assaults. In keeping with the paperwork, al-Qahtani most likely knew he was on a suicide mission however was not conscious of the small print of the assault. In keeping with the paperwork, immigration officers denied him entry to the U.S. as a result of they "discovered the circumstances of his journey and his conduct suspicious."
In keeping with declassified paperwork, Mohammed Atta was the hijacker and was ready "virtually definitely" to select up al Qahtani at Orlando Airport in 2001. He was denied entry to the airport and was deported to the United Arab Emirates.
In keeping with the federal government, al-Qahtani was mentioned to have returned to Pakistan and Afghanistan in august 2001 to tell Osama bin Laden and Atta individually that he had been denied entry to America. In keeping with paperwork, he then went to Kabul to battle the U.S. In keeping with the federal government, al-Qahtani briefly visited Tora Bora earlier than rejoining bin Laden and his guards earlier than being captured.
In keeping with the paperwork, he tried repeatedly to "disassociate" himself from al Qaeda. Nonetheless, the federal government said that their "perception into" his motivation was restricted by his "repeated denies of terrorism involvement." The federal government said that his household had no recognized connections to terrorists.
In keeping with the Middle for Constitutional Rights, al-Qahtani was "brutally tortured at Washington's course by officers who wished to 'break' him. His connection to actuality had been strained for a few years."
The Protection Division introduced Monday that 38 of the detainees nonetheless stay at Guantanamo bay after al-Qahtani was launched. The Protection Division said that 19 of these 38 are eligible to switch, 7 are eligible to evaluation, 10 are concerned with the army commissions course of and a pair of had been convicted in army trials.
President Joe Biden has pledged to shut Guantanamo jail earlier than he leaves workplace. In February 2021, the administration declared that it might launch an interagency evaluation.
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