Khalid al Zahrani

Khalid al Zahrani

A Saudi candidate to become one of the September 11th hijackers, Khalid Saeed Ahmad al Zahrani was an al-Qaeda member, and has been imprisoned in the Guantánamo Bay detainment camp since at least April 20, 2002 when his first interrogation is recorded.

According to the 9/11 Commission, he attended "terrorist training camps", including Al Farouq in Afghanistan for eleven years. The 9/11 Commission reports:cite web
url=http://www.answers.com/topic/9-11-commission-report-notes-part-7
title=911 Commission Report - notes to part 7
accessdate=December 31
accessyear=2006
publisher=911 Commission
author=] cite news
url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/21/saudi.hijacker/index.html
title='20th hijacker' shown in Web video
date=June 21 2006
accessdate=2006-12-31
publisher=CNN
author=Henry Schuster] :"Khalid Saeed Ahmad al Zahrani. He traveled to Afghanistan illegally after being prohibited by Saudi authorities from leaving Saudi Arabia. After being assigned to a mission in the U.S., he secretly reentered the Kingdom but failed in an attempt to have his name removed from the list of prohibited travelers so that he could obtain a U.S. visa. See Intelligence reports, interrogations of detainee, April 20, 2002; October 4, 2002; April 3, 2003.

He was sent, but failed, to convince Mushabib al-Hamlan not to abandon his training, after al-Hamlan left the training camp to remain with his ill mother.

He was later selected for an unknown mission in the United States, believed to have been the 9/11 hijackings, and re-entered Saudi Arabia to apply for a legitimate travel visa, but was denied an application because his name was on a Saudi watchlist of persons to be refused to travel outside the country.

In 2005, he partook in a hunger strike to protest the Qur'an desecration controversy [http://www.cageprisoners.com/prisoners.php?id=132]

References

External links

* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23108871 Pentagon charges 6 in 9-11 attacks]
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23120362 'Clean team' interrogated 9-11 suspects]


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