Abu Yasir Al Jaza'iri

The White House reports that they have captured a senior al Qaida leader named Abu Yasir Al Jaza'iri.cite news
url=http://www.defendamerica.mil/terrorism/waronterror.html
title=Progress in the war on terror: White House Fact Sheet, July 1, 2003
publisher=White House
date=July 1, 2003
accessdate=2007-12-30 [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2Fnews%2Freleases%2F2003%2F07%2F20030701-13.html&date=2008-07-25 mirror] ] The "Sunday Mirror" reported that "Abu Yasir Al Jaziri" was captured in Lahore on March 15 2003.cite news
url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20030316/ai_n12862272
title=Osama's moneyman arrested in Pakistan
publisher=Sunday Mirror
date=2003-03-16
accessdate=2008-07-25
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffindarticles.com%2Fp%2Farticles%2Fmi_qn4161%2Fis_20030316%2Fai_n12862272&date=2008-07-25 mirror] ] He was captured with a Pakistani named Gulzeb or Jaffar, and three unnamed Afghans.cite news
url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/mar/16pak.htm
title=Key Al Qaeda operative held in Pakistan
publisher=rediff
author=K J M Varma
date=2003-03-16
accessdate=2008-07-25
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rediff.com%2Fnews%2F2003%2Fmar%2F16pak.htm&date=2008-07-25 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030317/world.htm#8
title=7th top Al-Qaida man held in Lahore
publisher=The Tribune of India
author=
date=2003-03-16
accessdate=2008-07-25
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tribuneindia.com%2F2003%2F20030317%2Fworld.htm%238&date=2008-07-25 mirror] ] His capture was attributed to information from the interrogation of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was captured a few weeks earlier.He was described as the seventh most important al Qaeda member.Initial press reports stated that FBI agents participated in the capture. But Pakistan's Information Minister disputed this, asserting the capture was solely the work of local officials.

Role in al Qaeda

"MSNBC" identified "Abu Yasir al Jaziri" as traveling as part of the entourage of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed al Qaeda's third in command.cite news
url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7734991/
title=Who is Abu Farraj al-Libbi?
publisher=MSNBC
author=Robert Windrem
date=2005-05-04
accessdate=2008-07-25
quote=In early 2003, shortly after the capture of Mohammed, he was known to have been staying in Lahore with a Pakistani physician, who Pakistani officials arrested for harboring him and others. Among those who were known to have traveled with him then were Abu Yasir Al Jaziri, identified as an Algerian or Moroccan, Assadullah and Sheikh Said Al-Masri, both listed as Egyptians, all now known to have been security or financial officials in al-Qaida. [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msnbc.msn.com%2Fid%2F7734991%2F&date=2008-07-25 mirror] ] MSNBC reported that he has an Algerian or Moroccan.MSNBC reported that he as a either an al Qaeda security official or financial official.

The "Sunday Mirror" described him as "Osama's moneyman" and a "computer whiz", who was captured with two laptops.

Guantanamo connections

The Summary of Evidence memo prepared for Guantanamo captive Ali Abdullah Ahmed's Combatant Status Review Tribunal on 1 November 2004, and the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his first annual Administrative Review Board, on 26 May 2005 allegedcite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000595-000693.pdf#10
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Ahmed, Ali Abdullah
date=26 May 2005
pages=pages 10-11
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-12-30] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000500-000599.pdf#59
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Ahmed, Ali Abdullah
publisher=United States Department of Defense
author=OARDEC
date=1 November 2004
pages=pages 59-60
accessdate=2007-12-30] :
*"Senior Al Qaida facilitator Abu Yasir Al Jaza'iri identified the detainee."

The memo prepared for his second Administrative Review Board, on 8 March 2006 listed the following factor favoring Ali Abdullah Ahmed's release or transfercite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_700-798.pdf#52
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Ahmed, Ali Abdullah
date=8 March 2006
pages=pages 52-53
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-12-30] ::

Ali Abdullah Ahmed is one of the three Guantanamo captives who was reported to have committed suicide on June 10 2006.

Current location

On September 6 2006 fourteen "high-value detainees" were transferred. from CIA custody in its network of clandestine overseas interrogation centers, to military custody in Guantanamo.
United States President
George W. Bush announced that, with this transfer, the CIA's network of interrogation centers had been emptied.However Abu Yasir Al Jaza'iri's name does not match any names on the list of CIA captives, or on the list of original Guantanamo captives.cite news
url=http://hrw.org/backgrounder/usa/ct0607/2.htm
title=Off the Record: U.S. Responsibility for Enforced Disappearances in the “War on Terror”
publisher=Human Rights Watch
date=June 2007
accessdate=2008-07-25
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhrw.org%2Fbackgrounder%2Fusa%2Fct0607%2F2.htm&date=2008-07-25 mirror] ]

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