Rashad Mohammed Saeed Ismael
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Rashad Mohammed Saeed Ismael,also known as Abu Al-Fida, is a citizen of Yemen
alleged to be a close associate of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden
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According to The Times
he worked with bin Laden during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
bin Laden commissioned him to return to Yemen, and seek out a girl to serve as his fifth wife. His choice, Amal Ahmed al-Sadah married bin Laden in 2000 in Kandahar
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The Times reports Ismael was apprehended in Yemen, shortly after al Qaeda's attacks on September 11, 2001.
They report he was held for two years in Yemen. They report that his brother Sadeq
, a brother-in-law and a cousin were all held in Guantanamo
.
Yemen
The Republic of Yemen , commonly known as Yemen , is a country located in the Middle East, occupying the southwestern to southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, and Oman to the east....
alleged to be a close associate of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of the militant Islamist organization Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets...
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According to The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
he worked with bin Laden during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
bin Laden commissioned him to return to Yemen, and seek out a girl to serve as his fifth wife. His choice, Amal Ahmed al-Sadah married bin Laden in 2000 in Kandahar
Kandahar
Kandahar is the second largest city in Afghanistan, with a population of about 512,200 as of 2011. It is the capital of Kandahar Province, located in the south of the country at about 1,005 m above sea level...
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The Times reports Ismael was apprehended in Yemen, shortly after al Qaeda's attacks on September 11, 2001.
They report he was held for two years in Yemen. They report that his brother Sadeq
Sadeq Muhammad Sa'id Ismail
-Transcript:Ismail chose to participate in his Tribunal.On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a four summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal....
, a brother-in-law and a cousin were all held in Guantanamo
Yemeni captives in Guantanamo
The United States were holding a total of 112 Yemeni citizen at Guantanamo Bay.By January 2008 the Yemenis in Guantanamo represented the largest group of detainees....
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External links
- Osama bin Laden said: 'Find me a wife', Tom Finn in Sana'a, The GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, 11 May 2011