Sufyian Barhoumi, an Algerian, was accused of conspiracy to commit terrorism and providing material support for terrorism for providing instruction on building explosives.

He was arrested in March 2002 along with several other terrorist suspects when US and Pakistani forces raided a house in Faisalabad, Pakistan, and has been detained at Guantanamo ever since.

Barhoumi was initially charged on November 7, 2005, but those charges were thrown out in June 2006 when the US Supreme Court ruled that the military commissions were unlawful. In September 2006, Congress passed the Military Commissions Act, authorizing a new set of military commissions. The government announced new charges against Barhoumi on May 29, 2008. However, on October 21, 2008, it withdrew the charges against Barhoumi and four others, saying it would probably refile new charges in the future. The announcement came in the wake of the resignation of Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, one of the prosecutors on the case, who said that the military commissions did not have a proper system in place to provide exculpatory evidence to the defense. In January 2009 the government re-filed charges.

Military Commissions Documents:

• General Information Page
• Charges Sworn - May 29, 2008
• Documents related to previous charges

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