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| Ramzi bin al-Shibh | |
|---|---|
.jpg) FBI photo of bin al-Shibh | |
| Born | 1 May 1972[1][2] Ghayl Bawazir, South Yemen |
| 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 | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Yemeni |
| Other names | Abu Ubaidah |
| Occupation | Terrorist |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance |  Al-Qaeda |
| Service/ | Al-Qaeda central (1990s–present) |
| Years of service | 1990s–2002 |
| Rank | AQ officer and communicator Afghan civil war |
Ramzi Mohammed Abdullah bin al-Shibh (Arabic: رمزي محمد عبد الله بن الشيبة, romanized: Ramzī Muḥammad Abd Allāh bin al-Shībh; born 1 May 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 11 September 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]
- ^ "9/11 Commission Report, Chapter 5". National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. 2004.
- ^ JTF GTMO Detainee Profile Department of Defense
- ^ Indictment of Zacarias Moussaoui, with supporting conspirators, Ramzi bin al-Shibh and Mustafa al-Hawsawi. Filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
- ^ "Detainee Biographies" (PDF). Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 1, 2009. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
- ^ He was captured after a gun battle in Karachi with the Pakistani ISI and the CIA's Special Activities Division a year after the attacks.
- ^ Rosenberg, Carol (August 25, 2023). "Man Accused in 9/11 Plot Is Not Fit to Face Trial, Board Says". The New York Times. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
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