Abdul Rabbani

Mohammed Ahmad Ghulam Rabbani
Born	1970 (age 46–47) Medina, Saudi Arabia
Arrested	September 2002 Karachi, Pakistan
Detained at	"the salt pit" Guantanamo
ISN	1461
Charge(s)	extrajudicial detention
Status	Still held in Guantanamo
Children	0

Mohammed Ahmad Ghulam Rabbani, also known as Abd al Rahim Ghularn Rabbani, is a citizen of Pakistan currently held extrajudicial detention by the United States military at Guantanamo Bay Detention Camps, in Cuba.

American Intelligence analysts estimated that Rabbani was born in 1970, in al Medinah, Saudi Arabia.

Mohammed Ahmad Ghulam Rabbani arrived at Guantanamo on September 20, 2004, and has been held there for 12 years, 6 months and 29 days. He had spent approximately two years in the CIA's network of secret black site torture camps, prior to his transfer to Guantanamo.

Rabbani was born in Saudi Arabia to a Pakistani family who migrated to Karachi from India during the partition in 1947. He learned to speak Arabic while growing up in Saudi Arabia. Rabbani eventually moved back to Karachi where he worked as a taxi driver during the 1990s. Due to his fluency in Arabic, his clientele included Arabs visiting the city, and he became a referred driver and guide for them. He married in 2001 and had a son, whom he has never seen and only came to learn of during custody, when his son was six years old. Rabbani has written that he was handed over to American authorities because his crime was that he "spoke Arabic" and that he was accused of being one of them. He has also written on the torture he has endured during captivity in Afghanistan and Guantanamo.

According to Laid Saidi, Rabbani, and his brother, Abdul Al-Rahim Ghulam Rabbani, were being held in the CIA black site known as "the salt pit" at the same time as him. According to the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on CIA torture Rabbani was tortured for two years by the CIA. According to the report he was a victim of mistaken identity.

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