Jabran bin al Qahtani
Nationality: SaudiJabran bin al Qahtani is a Saudi in his late 20s with a graduate degree in engineering from King Saud University in Saudi Arabia. He has been charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism and providing material support for terrorism. The US alleges that al Qahtani left Saudi Arabia shortly after September 11, 2001 and received arms training in Afghanistan and Pakistan, eventually learning to build electronic remote detonation devices for explosives. The government claims that he was planning on returning to Afghanistan when US and Pakistani forces arrested him and several other suspects in a raid on March 28, 2002 in Faisalabad, Pakistan. If convicted, he faces life imprisonment.
This is the second time the US is attempting to put al Qahtani on trial. 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. In September 2006, Congress passed the Military Commissions Act, authorizing a new set of military commissions. The Convening Authority of the military commission must approve the charges against al Qahtani before he is formally charged.
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