Nibras guest house
The Nibras guest house is one of the many al Qaida guest houses, or al Qaida safe houses, or other houses that American intelligence analysts assert are part of the justifications offered for the continued extrajudicial detention of captives held in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. The guest house is named after one of the men who blew himself up during the USS Cole bombing.[1] It is also called the Hajji Habash guest house.[2]
The Nibras guest house is not the only house to be specified, by name. It is particularly notable because, unlike all the suspicious houses, that American intelligence analysts assert are tied to al Qaeda, the Nibras guest house is said to be owned, personally, by Osama bin Laden.
A team at the Combating Terrorism Center at the United States Military Academy at West Point, analyzed the Summary of Evidence memos prepared for captives' Combatant Status Review Tribunals.[3] They classified the captives into four threat levels, "demonstrated threat", "potential threat", "associated threat" and "no threat". According to their classification schema a stay in a suspicious guest house or safe house was enough to classify a captive as an "associated threat".
Captives said to have stayed at the Nibras guest house
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26 | Fahed Abdullah Ahmad Ghazi |
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162 | Ali Husayn Abdullah Al Tays | ||
441 | Abd Al Rahman Al Zahri |
During his first annual Administrative Review Board he faced the allegation:[6]
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689 | Mohammed Ahmed Salam |
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839 | Musab Omar Ali Al Mudwani | ||
841 | Sa id Salih Sa id Nashir |
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Other Kandahar guest houses associated with Osama bin Laden
Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts assert that Osama bin Laden maintained the Bayt al Arab guest house in Kandahar.
References
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Dina Temple-Raston (2007). The jihad next door: the Lackawanna six and rough justice in an age of terror. Perseus Books Group. ISBN 978-1-58648-403-3.
They stood before two low-slung guesthouses called, they would learn later, the Nibras Guesthouse and the Hassan Guesthouse. The men were told that, again, both houses took their names from the men who martyred themselves in the Cole attack.
- http://media.mcclatchydc.com/smedia/2011/04/28/06/us9ym-000498dp.source.prod_affiliate.91.pdf
- Joseph Felter, Jarret Brachman (2007-07-25). "CTC Report: An Assessment of 516 Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) Unclassified Summaries". Combating Terrorism Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-08-30.
- Summarized transcript (.pdf), from Fahed Abdullah Ahmad Ghazi's Administrative Review Board hearing - page 11
- Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Ali Husayn Abdullah Al Tays's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 47-54
- OARDEC (21 November 2005). "Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Zahri, Abd Al Rahman" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. pp. pages 39–42. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 December 2007. Retrieved 2008-05-15.
- Summary of Evidence memo (.pdf) prepared for Mohammed Ahmed Salam's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - October 20, 2004 - page 73
- documents (.pdf) from Musab Omar Ali Al Mudwani's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - - mirror pages 115-125