Ramzi bin al-Shibh | |
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Born | [1][2] Ghayl Bawazir, South Yemen | May 1, 1972
Detained at | CIA black sites, Guantanamo |
ISN | 10013 |
Charge(s) | Charged before a military commission in 2008; trial started in October 2012 |
Ramzi bin al-Shibh | |
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Nationality | Yemeni |
Other names | Abu Ubaidah |
Occupation | Terrorist |
Military career | |
Allegiance | ![]() |
Service/ | ![]() (1990s–present) |
Years of service | 1990s–2002 |
Rank | AQ officer and communicator |
Ramzi Mohammed Abdullah bin al-Shibh (Arabic: رمزي محمد عبد الله بن الشيبة, romanized: Ramzī Muḥammad Abd Allāh bin al-Shībh; born May 1, 1972)[3] is a Yemeni citizen currently being held by the U.S. as an enemy combatant detainee at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. He is accused of being a "key facilitator for the September 11 attacks" in 2001 in the United States.[4]
In the mid-1990s, bin al-Shibh moved as a student to Hamburg, Germany, where he allegedly became close friends with Mohamed Atta, Ziad Jarrah and Marwan al-Shehhi. Together, they are suspected of forming the Hamburg cell and becoming central perpetrators of the September 11 attacks. He was the only one of the four who failed to obtain a U.S. visa; he is accused of acting as an intermediary for the hijackers in the United States, by wiring money and passing on information from key al-Qaeda figures. After the attacks, bin al-Shibh was the first to be publicly identified by the U.S. as the "20th hijacker", for whom there have been several more possible candidates.
Bin al-Shibh has been in United States custody since he was captured on September 11, 2002, in Karachi, Pakistan.[5] He was held by the CIA in black sites in Morocco before being transferred to Guantanamo Bay in September 2006. Finally charged in 2008 before a military commission, he and several others suspected in the 9/11 attacks went to trial beginning in May 2012. In August 2023 a U.S. military judge ruled him too psychologically damaged to defend himself after CIA torture.[6]
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