Capture and Detention
Bin al-Shibh was captured in Pakistan on September 11, 2002, after a gun battle in Karachi with the Pakistani ISI and the CIA's Special Activities Division. On September 14, 2002 he was subsequently turned over to the United States, which transferred him to a black site in Morocco for interrogation. The CIA admitted in August 2010 that it has video tapes of these interrogations. His profile was removed from the FBI Seeking Information wanted list by October 17, 2002.
Bin al-Shibh remained a prisoner of the U.S., at an undisclosed CIA-led location, until September 2006. On September 6, 2006 U.S. President George W. Bush announced that bin al-Shibh and other CIA held prisoners had been transferred to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Bin al-Shibh is also wanted by German courts where he shared a Hamburg apartment with Mohamed Atta, the suspected ringleader of the September 11 hijackers. In 2005 the USA denied a German request for bin al-Shibh's extradition, which resulted in 9/11 suspect Abdelghani Mzoudi being acquitted of the charges presented at that time.
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