Jabran al-Qahtani
Saudi Arabian Guantanamo detainee
Jabran Said bin Wazir al-Qahtani is a Saudi who was held in extrajudicial detention for almost fifteen years in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts estimate he was born in 1977, in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
Al-Qahtani arrived at Guantanamo on August 5, 2002, and was transferred to Saudi Arabia on January 19, 2017.
He graduated from the King Saud University in Saudi Arabia with an engineering degree.
Inconsistent identification
Jabran Said Bin Wazir al-Qahtani was named inconsistently on various documents released by the Department of Defense:
He was called Jabran Said Wazar Al Qahtani on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on August 30, 2004, and on three official list of captive's names.
He was called Jabran Said Bin Al Qahtani on the charges he faced before a military commission, on November 7, 2005.
Charges before a military commission
On November 7, 2005, the United States charged Jabran al-Qahtani and four other detainees. The Bush administration intends to prosecute these detainees before a military commission. Al-Qahtani, Sufyian Barhoumi, Binyam Ahmed Muhammad, and Ghassan Abdullah al Sharbi face conspiracy to murder charges in relation to being part of a bomb-making cell. The Canadian citizen, 18-year-old Omar Khadr, faces both murder and conspiracy to murder charges.
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