Al Qaida safe house, Karachi

The American intelligence analysts who compiled the justifications for continuing to detain the captives taken in the "war on terror" made dozens of references to al Qaida safe house, in Karachi. [http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Factors_Set_1_944-1045.pdf Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf)] of Walid Said Bin Said Zaid "Administrative Review Board" - page 14] [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Factors_Set_3_1161-1234.pdf Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf)] of Abdullah Kamel Abdullah Kamel Al Kandari "Administrative Review Board" - pages 11-13] [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Factors_Set_2_1046-1160.pdf Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf)] of Khalid Abd Jal Jabbar Muhammad Juthman Al Qadasi "Administrative Review Board", April 28 2005 - page 14] [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Factors_Set_3_1161-1234_Revised.pdf Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf)] of Khalid Mallah Shayi Al Jilba Al Qahtani "Administrative Review Board", March 31 2005 - page 2] [http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Factors_Set_1_944-1045.pdf Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf)] of Salman Yahya Hassan Mohammed Rabeii "Administrative Review Board" - 28 January 2005 - page 65] [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Factors_Set_2_1046-1160.pdf Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf)] of Bader Al Bakri Al Samiri "Administrative Review Board" - March 7 2005 - page 75]

Some of the references:
*refer to instances when important documents, particularly various lists of individuals, were captured in al Qaida safe houses, or al Qaida guest houses, in Karachi. A list of 324 Arabic names, associated with senior al Qaida operative Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, being one of the most commonly referenced.
*refer to instances when suspects were captured in an al Qaida safe house in Karachi. The bin Attash brothers, who were regarded as significant enough sources of intelligence that they were interrogated in the CIA's archipelago of covert black sites, were captured in a Karachi safe house.
*refer to instances when a suspect temporarily stayed in Karachi safe house or guest house.

Captured in a Karachi safe house or guest house

American and Pakistani counter-terrorism officials conducted an extensive series of raids, across Pakistan, on September 11, 2002, the first anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001. Suspected safe houses and guesthouses in Karachi and Faisalabad were particular targets.Several of the captives captured on September 11 2002 were of sufficient intelligence value that they were interrogated first in the one of the CIA's archipelago of black sites, in particular the dark prison. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_mar05.pdf Summary of Evidence memo (.pdf)] prepared for Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash's "Combatant Status Review Tribunal" - November 9 2004 - page 274]

Some other captives were captured in suspect safe houses or guest houses in Karachi on other dates. And yet other captive's documents state that they were captured in a Karachi safe house or guest house, without specifying the date it occurred.

Listed on a suspicious document seized in Karachi

Many of the captives in Guantanamo learned from the allegations they faced during their Combatant Status Review Tribunals or Administrative Review Board hearings that their continued detention was being justified because their name, or "known alias", was found on a suspicious list. The ambiguous wording American intelligence analysts used when describing the suspicious lists leaves open to speculation how many lists there actually were.

tayed in Karachi safe house or guest house

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