Mohamad Farik Amin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Malaysian al-Qaeda member
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Place of Birth: Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia
About Mohamad Farik Amin
- Mohd Farik Bin Amin, alias Zubair Zaid, is a Malaysian who is alleged to be a senior member of Jemaah Islamiyah and al Qaeda.
- He is currently in American custody in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
- He is one of the 14 detainees who had previously been held for years at CIA black sites.
- In the ODNI biographies of those 14, Amin is described as a direct subordinate of Hambali.
- Farik Amin is also a cousin of well-known Malaysian terrorist Zulkifli Abdhir.According to Time Magazine, Amin, Hambali, and Mohammed Nazir Bin Lep were detained and interrogated on the remote Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, where they confessed to scouting out possible sites for terrorist bombings throughout Thailand.
- Time also reported that the three were captured together in central Thailand on August 11, 2003.
- The ODNI document says that Hambali and Bin Lep were captured together, but only that Amin was captured some time in 2003. The Department of Defense announced on August 9, 2007 that all fourteen of the "high-value detainees" who had been transferred to Guantanamo from the CIA's black sites, had been officially classified as "enemy combatants".
- Although judges Peter Brownback and Keith J.
- Allred had ruled two months earlier that only "illegal enemy combatants" could face military commissions, the Department of Defense waived the qualifier and said that all fourteen men could now face charges before Guantanamo military commissions.Scholars at the Brookings Institution, led by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations: Mohd Farik Bin Amin was listed as one of the captives who was a member of the "al Qaeda leadership cadre". Mohd Farik Bin Amin was listed as one of the "82 detainees made no statement to CSRT or ARB tribunals or made statements that do not bear materially on the military's allegations against them".
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