Mohammed al-Qahtani
| Mohammed al-Qahtani | |
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al-Qahtani
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| Born |
November 19, 1979 Kharj, Saudi Arabia |
| Detained at | Guantanamo |
| ISN | 63 |
| Charge(s) |
Charged February 2008; charges dropped in May 2008; new charges in November 2008; charges dropped January 2009; habeas case reinstated, 2008. |
| Status | Held in Guantanamo |
Charged February 2008; charges dropped in May 2008; new charges in
Mohammed Mana Ahmed al-Qahtani (Arabic: محمد مانع أحمد القحطاني) (sometimes transliterated as al-Kahtani) (born November 19, 1979) is a Saudi citizen who has been detained as an enemy combatant since June 2002 in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba. Qahtani allegedly tried to enter the United States to take part in the September 11 attacks as the 20th hijacker. He was refused entry due to suspicions that he was trying to immigrate. He was later captured in Afghanistan in the fall of 2001.
After military commissions were authorized by Congress, in February 2008, Qahtani was charged on numerous counts. In May the charges were dropped without prejudice. New charges were filed against him in November 2008 and dropped in January 2009, as evidence had been obtained through torture and was inadmissible in court. This was the first time an official of the Bush administration had admitted any torture of detainees at Guantanamo.
In a Washington Post interview in January 2009, Susan Crawford of the Department of Defense said that the US government had so abused Qahtani through isolation, sleep deprivation, forced nudity and exposure to cold that he was in a "life-threatening condition."
Mohammed al-Qahtani was born in 1979 in Kharj, Saudi Arabia. He is a Saudi national from a large Bedouin family. His father served as a police officer for 28 years. His mother remained at home to raise their twelve children. He has seven brothers and four sisters, who range in age from 14 to 42 years of age.
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