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FBI Memo re: Interview of Detainee at Guantanamo Bay

May 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4943
FBI interview of a Guantanamo Bay detainee who appears to have a great deal of experience with the Jihadist movement since 1989 and has come in to contact with many of the major figures and events in Islam and the Middle East that have defined the 10-12 years prior to the attacks on September 11, 2001. The detainee stated he was an Imam at a Mosque in Saudi Arabia frequented by foreigners many years earlier, in the 1980's. He stated that while in Saudi Arabia he met a Jordanian male while working at a bakery. This Jordanian man told the Imam that he was interested in traveling to the U.S. to meet a woman to obtain U.S. citizenship. The detainee then stated that stated that he was arrested and incarcerated in Saudi Arabia after being associated with an armed robbery. He detailed his traveling to Pakistan and Afghanistan at the start of the Soviet occupation in 1986 when he was 16 years-old and training at Taliban and Mujaheddin camps. He also details his traveling to Bosnia and other places for Jihad. The interview does not mention conditions or treatment while in U.S. custody or while at Guantanamo.
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