Al-Qaeda safe houses, Karachi
The American intelligence analysts who compiled the justifications for continuing to detain the captives taken in the "war on terror" made dozens of references to al Qaida safe houses, in Karachi, Pakistan. Some of the references: refer to instances when important documents, particularly various lists of individuals, were captured in al Qaida safe houses, or al Qaida guest houses, in Karachi. A list of 324 Arabic names, associated with senior al Qaida operative Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, being one of the most commonly referenced. refer to instances when suspects were captured in an al Qaida safe house in Karachi. The bin Attash brothers, who were interrogated in the CIA's archipelago of covert black sites, were captured in a Karachi safe house. refer to instances when a suspect temporarily stayed in a Karachi safe house or guest house. According to the 9/11 Commission, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed rented a safe house in Karachi specifically to house the men who would later hijack the jetliners on September 11, 2001. The 9-11 Commission reported that Mohammed rented the safe house with funds from Osama bin Laden. Captured in a Karachi safe house or guest house American and Pakistani counter-terrorism officials conducted an extensive series of raids, across Pakistan, on September 11, 2002, the first anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001. Suspected safe houses and guesthouses in Karachi and Faisalabad were particular targets. Several of the captives captured on September 11, 2002 were of sufficient intelligence value that they were interrogated first in one of the CIA's archipelago of black sites, in particular the dark prison. Some other captives were captured in suspect safe houses or guest houses in Karachi on other dates. And yet other captive's documents state that they were captured in a Karachi safe house or guest house, without specifying the date it occurred. Captives said to have been captured in a Karachi safe house include: Shawki Awad Balzuhair, Ha Il Aziz Ahmed Al Maythali Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash, Sabri Mohammed Ebrahim Al Qurashi Listed on a suspicious document seized in Karachi Many of the captives in Guantanamo learned from the allegations they faced during their Combatant Status Review Tribunals or Administrative Review Board hearings that their continued detention was being justified because their name, or "known alias", was found on a suspicious list. The ambiguous wording American intelligence analysts used when describing the suspicious lists leaves open to speculation how many lists there actually were. Captives whose names were alleged to have been found on a list captured in a Karachi safe house include: Omar Rajab Amin, Yusif Khalil Abdallah Nur Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al Hanashi Yusef Abdullah Saleh Al Rabiesh Buad Thif Allah Al Atabi Khalid Abd Jal Jabbar Muhammad Juthman Al Qadasi Riyad Atiq Ali Abdu Al Haj Al Radai Ziyad bin Salih bin Muhammad Al Bahooth Rami Bin Said Al Taibi Abdullah Kamel Abdullah Kamel Al Kandari Faiz Al Kandari Walid Said Bin Said Zaid Abdul Hakim Abdul Rahman Abdulaziz Al Mousa. Karachi safehouses managed