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• Jamal Mar’i, a Yemeni, and the first known victim of rendition in the wake of the
attacks of the 11 September 2001. Seized from his house in Karachi, on 23 September
2001, he was held for four months in Jordan before being flown to Guantanamo, where
he remains.273
• Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian, was rendered to Jordan after handing himself to
Mauritanian authorities on 28 November 2001. Mr. Slahi was held in Jordan for eight
months, and described what happened to him as “beyond description”. He was then
transferred to Afghanistan, where he spent two weeks, and arrived in Guantanamo,
where he remains, on 4 August 2002.274
• Ali al-Hajj al-Sharqawi, a Yemeni, was rendered to Jordan after his capture in Karachi
on 7 February 2002. Flown to Afghanistan on 8 January 2004, he was held there for
eight months, then flown to Guantanamo on 20 September 2004. Still held at
Guantanamo, he has stated that he was continuously tortured throughout his 23 months
in Jordan.275
• Hassan bin Attash, a Saudi-born Yemeni, was 17 years old when he was seized in
Karachi on 11 September 2002 with Ramzi bin al-Shibh. He was held in Jordan until
8 January 2004, when he was flown to Afghanistan with Ali al-Hajj al-Sharqawi. He
was then delivered to Guantanamo with al-Sharqawi on 20 September 2004. Still held at
Guantanamo, he has stated that he was tortured throughout his time in Jordan.272
145. Also held were Abu Hamza al-Tabuki, a Saudi seized by United States agents in
Afghanistan in December 2001 and released in Saudi Arabia in late 2002 or early 2003;276 and
273
Combatant Status Review Tribunal Set 4, available from
www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/Set_4_0320-0464.pdf, pp. 130-144.
274
Combatant Status Review Tribunal Set 41, available from
www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/Set_41_2665-2727.pdf , pp. 28-38.
Administrative Review Board Set 8, pp. 184-218, available from
www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Transcript_Set_8_20751-21016.pdf.
275
Human Rights Watch, “Double Jeopardy: CIA Renditions to Jordan”, 7 April 2008.
Available from www.hrw.org/en/node/62264.
276
Ibid. Others reportedly held in Jordan are Jamil Qasim Saeed Mohammed, a Yemeni student
rendered from Karachi on 23 October 2001, who has not been heard of since; Ibrahim alJeddawi, a Saudi seized in Yemen (or Kuwait) in the first half of 2002, who was reportedly
transferred to Saudi custody; at least five other men (three Algerians, a Syrian and a Chechen),
seized in Georgia in 2002; an Iraqi Kurd, possibly seized in Yemen; and a Tunisian, seized in
Iraq. The current whereabouts of all these men is unknown. According to former prisoners
interviewed by Human Rights Watch, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, seized with Hassan bin Attash and
one of 14 “high-value detainees” transferred to Guantanamo in September 2006, was also held in
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