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'''Mohammed al-Qahtani''' (1979?-) is alleged to be the "20th hijacker" who would have participated in the | '''Mohammed al-Qahtani''' (1979?-) is alleged to be the "20th hijacker" who would have participated in the 9/11 attack, and is a prisoner at Guantanamo detention camp. Captured by Pakistani forces near the Afghanistan border with Pakistan in December 2001,<ref name=CSRT>{{citation | ||
| url = http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/63-mohammed-al-qahtani/documents/1/pages/91#1 | | url = http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/63-mohammed-al-qahtani/documents/1/pages/91#1 | ||
| publisher = U.S. Department of Defense | date = October 21, 2004 | | publisher = U.S. Department of Defense | date = October 21, 2004 | ||
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| author = Combatant Status Review Tribunal Team, }}, p. 1</ref> his legal status is evolving; <ref name=WaPo2009-01-14>{{citation | | author = Combatant Status Review Tribunal Team, }}, p. 1</ref> his legal status is evolving; <ref name=WaPo2009-01-14>{{citation | ||
| title=Detainee Tortured, Says U.S. Official: Trial Overseer Cites 'Abusive' Methods Against 9/11 Suspect | | title=Detainee Tortured, Says U.S. Official: Trial Overseer Cites 'Abusive' Methods Against 9/11 Suspect | ||
| author = | | author = Bob Woodward | ||
| journal = Washington Post | | journal = Washington Post | ||
| date = January 14, 2009 | | date = January 14, 2009 | ||
| url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/13/AR2009011303372_pf.html}}</ref> U.S. filings about his detention cite: | | url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/13/AR2009011303372_pf.html}}</ref> U.S. filings about his detention cite: | ||
*He was a member of | *He was a member of al-Qaeda, having personally sworn the bayat oath to Osama bin Laden, | ||
*Received weapons training | *Received weapons training | ||
*Agreed to conduct a | *Agreed to conduct a suicide attack|martyrdom operation in the U.S. but was turned away by immigration authorities in August 2001 | ||
*Was with bin Laden at the | *Was with bin Laden at the Battle of Tora Bora | ||
He denied, which is suggested by the summary of evidence, that he had specific prior knowledge of the 9 | He denied, which is suggested by the summary of evidence, that he had specific prior knowledge of the 9/11 attack. According to an interrogation log acquired by ''Time'' magazine and confirmed by the Department of Defense, <ref name=Time2005-06-12>{{citation | ||
| date= June 12, 2005 | | date= June 12, 2005 | ||
| title = Inside the Interrogation of Detainee 063 | | title = Inside the Interrogation of Detainee 063 | ||
| author = Adam Zagorin and Michael Duffy | journal = Time | | author = Adam Zagorin and Michael Duffy | journal = Time | ||
| url = http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1071284,00.html}}</ref> "On Jan. 10, 2003, al-Qahtani says he knows nothing of terrorists but volunteers to return to the gulf states and act as a double agent for the U.S. in exchange for his freedom". After harsher interrogation measures were authorized by Secretary of Defense | | url = http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1071284,00.html}}</ref> "On Jan. 10, 2003, al-Qahtani says he knows nothing of terrorists but volunteers to return to the gulf states and act as a double agent for the U.S. in exchange for his freedom". After harsher interrogation measures were authorized by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, he gave more specifics about al-Qaeda, but it is not clear if he gave that due to the increased intensity, or it was through We Know All interrogation techniques based on information obtained from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. | ||
Susan Crawford, convening authority under the Military Commissions Act of 2006, barred the current prosecution against him in January 2009, before the end of the George W. Bush Administration, ruling that <blockquote>We tortured Mohammed al-Qahtani...His treatment met the legal definition of torture. And that's why I did not refer the case" for prosecution. The techniques they used were all authorized, but the manner in which they applied them was overly aggressive and too persistent. . . . You think of torture, you think of some horrendous physical act done to an individual. This was not any one particular act; this was just a combination of things that had a medical impact on him, that hurt his health. It was abusive and uncalled for. And coercive. Clearly coercive. It was that medical impact that pushed me over the edge [to call it torture]<ref name=WaPo2009-01-14>{{citation | |||
| title=Detainee Tortured, Says U.S. Official: Trial Overseer Cites 'Abusive' Methods Against 9/11 Suspect | | title=Detainee Tortured, Says U.S. Official: Trial Overseer Cites 'Abusive' Methods Against 9/11 Suspect | ||
| author = | | author = Bob Woodward | ||
| journal = Washington Post | | journal = Washington Post | ||
| date = January 14, 2009 | | date = January 14, 2009 | ||
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 Mohammed al-Qahtani (1979?-) is alleged to be the "20th hijacker" who would have participated in the 9/11 attack, and is a prisoner at Guantanamo detention camp. Captured by Pakistani forces near the Afghanistan border with Pakistan in December 2001,[1] his legal status is evolving; [2] U.S. filings about his detention cite:
He denied, which is suggested by the summary of evidence, that he had specific prior knowledge of the 9/11 attack. According to an interrogation log acquired by Time magazine and confirmed by the Department of Defense, [3] "On Jan. 10, 2003, al-Qahtani says he knows nothing of terrorists but volunteers to return to the gulf states and act as a double agent for the U.S. in exchange for his freedom". After harsher interrogation measures were authorized by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, he gave more specifics about al-Qaeda, but it is not clear if he gave that due to the increased intensity, or it was through We Know All interrogation techniques based on information obtained from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Susan Crawford, convening authority under the Military Commissions Act of 2006, barred the current prosecution against him in January 2009, before the end of the George W. Bush Administration, ruling that
She did not, however, free him, and is waiting for military prosecutors to file new charges. References
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