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Jun 1, 2024 · On the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Pakistani ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) forces raided several houses in Karachi, hunting for suspected members of Al Qaeda. In one of the incursions, the Pakistanis captured a young Yemeni man named Ramzi bin Al-Shibh.
Jun 6, 2024 · Ramzi bin al-Shibh (Yemen) (Financial facilitator and organizer of hijacker cell in Hamburg, Germany. Suspect in USS Cole bombing) (Removed from joint prosecution due to unfit mental state, August, 2023).
Jun 1, 2024 · The four attackers and Amra, nicknamed “La Mouche”—or “the Fly”—escaped in two vehicles later found abandoned and burned. Amra has an extensive record of mostly mid-level crimes, the latest a burglary conviction with an 18-month prison term handed down on May 11, 2024.
Jun 5, 2024 · On Wednesday, campaigners in ten locations across the US and around the world held the latest monthly coordinated global vigils calling for the closure of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, which, on June 23, will have been open for 8,200 days. The monthly vigils, which I initiated last February, took place in Washington, D.C.,
Jun 1, 2024 · Georgia’s Telfair State Prison went on lockdown on March 21, 2024, after a prisoner stabbed Warden Andrew McFarlane with a homemade knife. McFarlane, 54, a 25-year veteran of the state Department of Corrections (DOC), was not seriously injured in the attack, according to DOC spokesperson Joan Heath, who added he was “examined by facility ...
Jun 21, 2024 · He is the co-founder of the Close Guantánamo campaign (see the ongoing photo campaign here) and the successful We Stand With Shaker campaign of 2014-15, and the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison and of two other books: Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion and The Battle of the Beanfield.
3 days ago · In any case, KSM’s number-two in the planes-as-missiles plot, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, was there, along with Khallad bin Atash, a senior al Qaeda operative who played a key role in executing the African Embassy bombings.
