Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a Kuwaiti born to Pakistani parents, has been charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism, attacking civilians and civilian objects, causing serious bodily injury, murder in violation of the laws of war, destruction of property in violation of the laws of war, hijacking, terrorism and providing material support for terrorism, for his alleged role in planning the 9/11 terror

Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al-Bahlul was tried by the military commissions and sentenced to life in prison on November 3, 2008, after a military jury found him guilty of 35 counts of conspiracy, solicitation to commit murder, and providing material support for terrorism.

In August 2008, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who worked as a driver for Osama bin Laden, became the first Guantanamo detainee to go to trial before the military commissions. He was convicted of providing material support for terrorism and sentenced to five-and-a-half years of imprisonment.

David Hicks, an Australian, was the first person to have been convicted by the US military commissions. He pleaded guilty in April 2007 to one count of providing material support for terrorism and was sentenced to seven years.

Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qosi, a Sudanese national, is charged with conspiracy and providing material support for terrorism. The US government alleges that from 1996 to 2001 he served as a driver and armed guard for Osama bin Laden, and that from 1998 until 2001 he provided security, transportation and supply services for an al-Qaeda compound in Afghanistan.

Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarek bin ‘Attash, a Yemeni, has been charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism, attacking civilians and civilian objects, causing serious bodily injury, murder in violation of the laws of war, destruction of property in violation of the laws of war, hijacking, terrorism and providing material support for terrorism.

Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al-Darbi, a Saudi who has been in US custody since 2002, is charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism and material support for terrorism based on alleged connections to al-Qaeda that date back to 1996.

Mohammed Hashim, an Afghan, was charged with spying, terrorism and providing material support for terrorism. Specifically, the United States alleged that Hashim attended a terrorist training camp to receive instruction in weapons, explosives, suicide bombings, assassination and poisoning water supplies.

Mohammed Kamin, an Afghan, is charged with providing material support for terrorism, based on, among other claims, the allegation that he received arms training at al-Qaeda camps.

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Noor Uthman Mohammed, a Sudanese national, was arrested in March 2002 when US and Pakistani forces raided an alleged al Qaeda safe house in Faisalabad, Pakistan.

Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi of Yemeni descent, is charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism, murder and attempted murder in violation of the laws of war, and terrorism.

Jabran bin al Qahtani is a Saudi in his late 20s with a graduate degree in engineering from King Saud University in Saudi Arabia. He was initially charged with conspiracy before the military commissions on December 16, 2005, but those charges were thrown out when the US Supreme Court ruled in June 2006 that the military commissions were unlawful.

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Al Rabia, 50, was charged in October 2008 with conspiracy to commit terrorism and attack civilians and providing material support for terrorism. The government alleged that he traveled to Afghanistan to meet with Osama Bin Laden and that he raised money for al Qaeda, commanded a supply depot at Tora Bora, and delivered supplies to al Qaeda fighters.