Al Ansar guest house

Al Ansar guest house

The Al Ansar guest house is a name Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts have applied to several guest houses they consider suspicious.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000400-000499.pdf#40
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Khowlan, Abdul Rahman Mohammed
date=28 September 2004
pages=page 40
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-14
] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000394-000494.pdf#74
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Khowlan, Abdul Rahman Mohammed Hussein
date=28 June 2005
pages=pages 74-76
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-14
] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_599-699.pdf#4
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Khawlan, Abd Al Rahman Muhammad Husayn
date=2 May 2006
pages=pages 4-6
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-14
] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000495-000594.pdf#24
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Qurashi, Sabri Mohammed Ebrahim
date=26 July 2005
pages=pages 24-26
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-14
] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000495-000594.pdf
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Sharabi, Zuhail Abdo Anam Said
date=25 October 2005
author=OARDEC
pages=pages 21-23
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-11-09
] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_599-699.pdf#63
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Said, Zohair Mohammed
date=12 October 2006
author=OARDEC
pages=pages 63-65
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-11-09
] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000895-000943.pdf#35
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Khan, Abdullah Mohammed
date=29 July 2005
author=OARDEC
pages=pages 35-37
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-11-06
] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_599-699.pdf#45
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Abdulla (first name unknown)
date=10 September 2006
author=OARDEC
pages=pages 45-47
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-11-09
] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_599-699.pdf#54
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Awad, Jalal Salam Awad
date=7 February, 2006
author=OARDEC
pages=pages 54-56
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-11-09
] Close to one hundred Guantanamo captives had their continued
extrajudicial detention justified, at least in part, due to allegations that they had stayed in suspicious guest houses.

Location

JTF-GTMO allegations place guest houses named al Ansar in Kabul, Afghanistan; Peshawar, Pakistan; and Kandahar, Afghanistan.

History

Discussions in a Peshawar guest house, named bait al Ansar, are reported to have played a pivotal role in the formation of the al Qaida network.cite news
url=http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?issue_id=2907
title=The Essence of Al Qaeda: An Interview With Saad Al-Faqih
publisher=Jamestown Foundation
author=Mahan Abedin
date=February 5, 2004
volume=2
issue=2
accessdate=2008-03-15
quote=The Bait al-Ansar or “Dwelling of the Partisans” was a guesthouse established by Bin Laden in the 1980’s in Peshawar for Arab volunteers wanting to travel to Afghanistan.
]
Saad Al-Faqih, reported to be an expert on al Qaeda's history, has stated that al Qaeda's origin was tied to a computer system situated in the "bait al-Ansar guesthouse":

According to the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for
Jalal Salam Awad Awad's second annualAdministrative Review Board, on 7 February, 2006: :

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