Biden Admin Releases Al Qaeda Member Affiliated With 9/11 Architect (KSM) From Guantanamo Bay

As the horrific events that took place on 9/11 fade in the memories of a growing number of Americans, and that are not taught to the youth in Generation Z, some who were behind the attack are now getting released from US custody.

The Biden administration has released from Guantanamo Bay a high-profile member of al Qaeda who was a direct subordinate of the terrorist group’s senior planner of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Two other members, who worked for the group during the 9/11 attacks, are set for release as well, as reported by NBC News.

While the nation was focused on the Chinese spy balloon on U.S. soil last week, the Biden administration released Majid Khan from Guantanamo Bay to Belize, after reaching out to about a dozen countries to find a residence for the convicted terrorist.

Fortunately, US federal law does not allow Guantanamo Bay detainees to be resettled in the United States.

Khan was Guantanamo Bay’s only legal U.S. resident; he gained asylum in 1998.

In 2002, Khan returned to Pakistan and joined al Qaeda, becoming a direct subordinate to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), who is known as al Qaeda’s senior operational planner and architect of 9/11.

The terrorist was tasked by KSM to deliver money and transfer other senior al Qaeda officials to carry out terrorist attacks, specifically on a Marriot Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2003. The bombing resulted in the deaths of 12 and injured 150.

In September 2006, then-President George W. Bush announced that Khan was one of 14 “high-value detainees” being transferred from CIA detention facilities to Guantanamo Bay to face the military tribunal system. One of the other high-value detainees was KSM, who had also been captured in Pakistan in March 2003 and held at black sites.

In 2012, he pled guilty to terrorism-related charges and served ten years.
In addition to Khan’s release, two brothers from Pakistan, Abdul Rahim Ghulam Rabbani, and Mohammed Ahmed Ghulam Rabbani, are also nearing transfer, according to two senior U.S. officials.

Abdul who is believed to be the older brother and among the oldest detainees currently at Guantanamo was born in 1967 and is alleged to have worked directly for KSM from 1999 until his arrest in September 2002.

In 1998, Abdul’s younger brother Ahmed recruited him to travel to Afghanistan to attend the Khaldan camp near Khowst for basic weapons training, according to a U.S. government detainee profile.

After getting kicked out of the camp for smoking, Abdul returned to Karachi and, according to a U.S. government detainee review, he began to run Al Qaeda safe houses there, playing a key role in moving its fighters from Afghanistan to Pakistan, as well as transporting money, documents, and equipment.

Though he had a close association with KSM, the U.S. believes that Abdul did not have specific insight into Al Qaeda operational planning, according to his detainee assessment.

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