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Jabran Said bin Al Qahtani is a Saudi currently held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts estimate he was born in 1977, in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
As of August 11, 2011, Jabran Said Wazar al Qahtani has been held at Guantanamo for nine years. War crimes charges against Mr. al Qahtani have been dismissed but may be refiled.
He graduated from the King Saud University in Saudi Arabia with an engineering degree.
On November 7, 2005, the United States charged Jabran and four other detainees. The Bush administration intends to prosecute these detainees before a military commission. Qahtani, Sufyian Barhoumi, Binyam Ahmed Muhammad, and Ghassan Abdullah al Sharbi face conspiracy to murder charges. Omar Khadr faces both murder and conspiracy to murder charges.
Al Qahtani, Barhoumi and Al Sharbi have been dubbed "The Faisalabad Three". The three were captured together with a senior member of the al Qaeda leadership, Abu Zubaydah, in...... (Read more on Wikipedia)
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Appeals court upholds Washington state's open primary system - — The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel's decision may signal affirmation for California's open primary system, in which the top two vote-getters advance to the general election regardless of party. |
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Ashcroft can be sued over arrests, appeals court rules - — A 9th Circuit panel says the ex-attorney general violated the rights of citizens held as material witnesses without cause after 9/11. Rights advocates praise the ruling in Abdullah Kidd's case. — Then-Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft violated … |
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WellPoint, United Healthcare accused of illegal actions - — The insurers pressured employees to lobby against healthcare reform, Consumer Watchdog alleges. — The nation's two largest health insurers have been pressuring employees to lobby against healthcare reform in Congress in violation … |
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Federal judges order California to release 43,000 inmates - — Inmates squeeze into rows of bunk beds at San Quentin. Federal judges have said California prisons are so crowded that they constitute cruel and unusual punishment. — Federal judges call conditions in the prisons ‘appalling’ and unconstitutional. |
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