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Place of Birth: Yemen
About Ramzi bin al-Shibh
- Ramzi bin al-Shibh (Arabic: ???? ?? ???????, Ramzi bin ash-Shibah; also transliterated as bin al-Shaibah) (born May 1, 1972) is a Yemeni citizen being held by the U.S.
- as an enemy combatant detainee at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
- He is accused of being a "key facilitator for the September 11 attacks" in 2001 in the United States.In the mid-1990s, bin al-Shibh moved as a student to Hamburg, Germany, where he allegedly became close friends with Mohamed Atta, Ziad Jarrah and Marwan al-Shehhi.
- Together, they are suspected of forming the Hamburg cell and becoming central perpetrators of the September 11 attacks.
- He was the only one of the four who failed to obtain a U.S.
- visa; he is accused of acting as an intermediary for the hijackers in the United States, by wiring money and passing on information from key al-Qaeda figures.
- After the attacks, bin al-Shibh was the first to be publicly identified by the U.S.
- as the "20th hijacker", of whom there have been several more possible candidates. Bin al-Shibh has been in United States custody since he was captured on September 11, 2002, in Karachi, Pakistan.
- He was held by the CIA in black sites in Morocco before being transferred to Guantanamo Bay in September 2006.
- Finally charged in 2008 before a military commission, he and several others suspected in the 9/11 attacks went to trial beginning in May 2012.
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