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The Karachi Six were six men captured on September 11, 2002, in Karachi, Pakistan, by a mixed force of CIA and Pakistani security officials.[1] Initially US intelligence officials claimed that the men were al Qaeda members, plotting a future attack.
According to Courthouse News Service:
- Though the United States initially suspected that the six were involved with an al-Qaida cell plotting a future attack, the case has failed to get off the ground for 14 years for lack of evidence. As documented in the detainee's unclassified profile, U.S. has tempered its claims about the Karachi 6 in recent years, describing them now as low-level al-Qaida fighters.[2]
The Guantanamo Joint Review Task Force implemented by President Barack Obama, when he took office, recommended indefinite extrajudicial detention for all six men, regarding them as too dangerous to release, even though there was no evidence that would justify charging them with a crime.
In 2015 and 2016 the Obama Presidency had a Periodic Review Board make new recommendations on their status.
On August 15, 2016, two of the men were transferred to the United Arab Emirates.[3][4]
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00836 | Ayub Murshid Ali Salih | |
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00837 | Bashir Nasir Ali al-Marwalah | |
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00838 | Shawqi Awad Balzuhair | |
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00839 | Musab Omar Ali Al Mudwani | |
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00840 | Hail Azziz Ahmed al-Maythali |
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00841 | Hani Saleh Rashid Abdullah |
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Britain Eakin (2016-06-28). "Gitmo Board Hears of Lawyer & Detainee Bond". Courthouse News Service. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
Mussab al-Madhwani is part of a group known as the Karachi 6, named for the city in Pakistan where they were seized on Sept. 11, 2002.
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Britain Eakin (2016-06-30). "Big-Brother Figure Makes Case for Gitmo Release". Courthouse News Service. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
Mussab al-Madhwani is part of a group known as the Karachi 6, named for the city in Pakistan where they were seized on Sept. 11, 2002.
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Camila Domonoske (2016-08-16). "15 Guantanamo Bay Detainees Transferred To United Arab Emirates". National Public Radio.
Two of the Afghan prisoners — Mohammed Kamin and Obaidallah, who only has one name — had been briefly charged in a military commission, The Miami Herald reports. The war crimes prosecutor dropped those charges.
- ^ Benjamin Wittes (2016-08-16). "A Big Guantanamo Transfer: Progress Towards the Site's Obsolescence". Lawfare.
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Britain Eakin (2016-04-28). "'Karachi 6' Yemeni Faces New Guantanamo Review". Washington, DC: Courthouse News Service. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
U.S. forces nabbed al-Marwalah, known as detainee YM-837, in Karachi, Pakistan, on the one-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Seized with five other men during the raid, al-Marwalah is part of a group the United States has dubbed the Karachi Six, suspected then of involvement with an al-Qaida cell plotting a future attack. Today's periodic review board hearing revealed, however, that this claim about the men has since been tempered.
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Katherine Cosgrove (2016-05-31). "35-Year-Old "Karachi Six" Detainee Receives Review Board Hearing". Human Rights First. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
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Adelma Jakupovic (2016-04-21). "The Guantanamo Review Board Holds Hearing for Another One of the "Karachi Six"". Human Rights First. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
Although the government initially believed that Nashir, along with five other men who became known as the "Karachi Six," were part of an al Qaeda operational cell designed to support future attacks, it acknowledges that they were likely part of a larger pool of fighters al Qaeda would use to carry out terrorist attacks.
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