Supergrasses Two Men Whose Testimonies Incriminated a Quarter of All Detainees
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* * Supergrasses Two men whose testimonies incriminated a quarter of all detainees ◀ Mohammed Basardah ◀ Abu Zubaydah YM-252 GZ-10016 A 37-year-old Yemeni who One of Guantánamo’s most lived in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, controversial inmates. where his file says he was Believed by the US to be a jailed for cannabis trafficking senior al-Qaida leader tasked and car theft. Captured in with forming a ‘martyr’s Pakistan in December 2001, brigade’ to launch a terrorist allegedly as part of a group of campaign in Afghanistan and fighters fleeing from the Tora overseas. Described by the Bora mountains US and others as having faced the most extensive enhanced interrogation techniques, including repeated waterboarding 104 123 Number of other prisoners he testified about Number of other prisoners he testified about ▲ Younis Abdurrahman ▲ Uthman Al-Rahim YM-27 ▲ Bisher Al-Rawi IZ-906 ▲ Said bin Brahim bin ▲ Aziz Abdul Naji AG-744 ▲ Ahmad Abdel Qader Chekkou MO-197 Yemeni. “A Bin Laden British resident. Accused by Umran Bakhush AG-685 Claimed he lost a leg Ahmad Hasan Abu Bakr Moroccan. “The military bodyguard seen eating with Basardah of being involved Zubaydah claims he is a key carrying out charity work; YM-690 Zubaydah linked leader on the frontlines ... Bin Laden,” according to in al-Qaida recruiting ‘triggerman’ who received in Zubaydah’s testimony, him to another Yemeni the big commander for Basardah operations in England specialised terror training; he lost it during training detainee associated with Bin Laden,” said Basardah Bakhush denies this in Afghanistan the martyrs’ brigade ▲ Shaker Aamer SA-239 ▲ Abdul Latif MO-244 ▲ Ravil Mingazov RS-702 Sharaf Ahmad Muhammad British resident. Basardah Moroccan. In Basardah’s Zubaydah’s testimony Masud YM-170 called him “one of Osama words, “one of Bin Laden’s was used to suggest that ‘A Tunisian with Italian bin Laden’s more significant most important military Russians and Tajiks received connections,’ Zubaydah operatives” advisers” No way out A detainee at Guantánamo Bay. Basardah appears to have identified many prisoners from training in “assassinations said, but Yemeni according photographs, claiming individuals were Bin Laden’s bodyguards, or al-Qaida trained Photograph: Getty and explosives” at his camp to al-Qaida documents.