Talk:Abdul Al-Rahim Ghulam Rabbani

Allegations related to Abdul Al-Rahim Ghulam Rabbani's management of Karachi safehouses

About two thirds of the allegations faced by Abdul Al-Rahim Ghulam Rabbani concern his management of Karachi safehouses -- under the direct supervision of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Geo Swan (talk) 00:10, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

The detainee was a member of al Qaida and was a facilitator for Khalid Shaykh Mohammad for three years. The detainee was a well known Karachi-based al Qaida facilitator who had transported many al Qaida members from safehouses to the Karachi apartment and would bring money for them to purchase food and would bring clothes, suitcases and other travel gear for the al Qaida members preparing to leave. When captured, the detainee was carrying documents that led authorities to two additional at Qaida safehouses where at Qaida members were found and arrested. The detainee either operated or resided at six at Qaida safehouses in Karachi with a senior al Qaida lieutenant. The detainee brought supplies to injured individuals at a guesthouse in Karachi, Pakistan. The detainee was unsure if the injuries were due to fighting or bombings. The detainee rented and supervised safe houses and provided logistical support to al Qaida operatives in Karachi, Pakistan, from roughly early 2000 through September 2002. The detainee also moved al Qaida operatives from Karachi, Pakistan to Afghanistan. The detainee transported al Qaida members by car to a villa in Karachi, Pakistan. The at Qaida members stayed there for one month and prepared workshops on making remote control firing devices. After 11 September 2001, the detainee accommodated members of the Mujahadeen leaving Afghanistan and transiting through Karachi. The detainee identified seventeen of the September 11, 2001 hijackers who stayed at a facility that the detainee had rented in Karachi, Pakistan. The detainee identified five of the suspects indicted in the 1998 bombings of United States Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar Es Salaam , Tanzania, as men he had seen in Afghanistan or men he had assisted in Karachi, Pakistan under the direction of a senior al Qaida operative. The detainee brought supplies to injured individuals at a guesthouse in Karachi, Pakistan. The detainee stated that around January 2001, he was directed by an al Qaida operations chief to rent a safe house. The detainee found a two-story house near the Karachi, Pakistan airport in a community called, Wireless Gate. The detainee maintained this house for four to five months. The detainee stated that he rented another house around June 2001 in the Rabia City area of Karachi, Pakistan. The detainee operated this safe house until approximately November 2001. The detainee stated that al Qaida personnel worked at a safe house run by the detainee located at Gulshan I-Iqbal, Karachi, Pakistan to edit video tapes and produce video discs from the tapes. The detainee rented a two-story house' in the Mehmoodabad neighborhood of Karachi, Pakistan. The detainee rented his final apartment in Karachi, Pakistan where Pakistan authorities conducted a raid on 11 September 2002. The detainee stated that shortly after the safe house at Sonia apartments on Tariq road in Karachi, Pakistan was rented, around early June 2002, an al Qaida operations chief came to the apartment and dropped off a package containing a large number of the electronic devices which the detainee described as small black boxes to be used in attacks. The detainee stated that he provided safe houses and logistical support to al Qaida operatives in Karachi, Pakistan from approximately early 2000 through September 2002. During raids conducted between 9 and 11 September 2002 in Karachi, Pakistan, authorities recovered 22 radio-controlled remote detonating devices from a house in Karachi. The detainee was captured in September 2002 , during raids conducted against a series of al Qaida safe houses in Karachi, Pakistan. The detainee stated he worked closely with an al Qaida operations chief to coordinate support to Arabs who were being harbored in safe houses within Karachi, Pakistan. The detainee stated that he was instructed by an al Qaida operations chief to live at a safe house in the Defense View neighborhood of Karachi, Pakistan for approximately six months where he lived with a USS Cole bombing planner. The detainee stated that there was no direct supervisor for identifying and transporting individuals between guesthouses. The detainee stated that he worked directly for an al Qaida operations chief. The detainee stated that he harbored three of the 11 September 2001 hijackers briefly at the two-story home in the Defense View area of Karachi, Pakistan. The detainee stated that he has either operated or resided at six different safe houses in Karachi, Pakistan with a senior al Qaida operative. The detainee stated a senior at Qaida lieutenant tasked him to rent and live in several safe houses . The detainee stated he rented houses throughout mid-2000 until September 11th, 2002 when Pakistani authorities conducted a raid on his house. The detainee stated he lived with a senior al Qaida operative. The detainee was a manager of several guest houses for Mujahedin in Karachi, Pakistan. The detainee was a Karachi-based facilitator who was well known to all the Mujahedin, including al Qaida . The detainee could assist with travel and housing arrangements. Senior al Qaida members stayed at various guest houses run by the detainee. The detainee stated a senior al Qaida operative came to his apartment and dropped off a package containing a large number of the electronic devices in early June 2002. The detainee described the devices as small black boxes to be used in attacks. The detainee stated he was directed by the senior al Qaida operative to put 15 of the devices in a bag and to take them a bus stop in Karachi, Pakistan where he would meet an unidentified man and give them to him. Approximately one week after passing the 15 devices to the unidentified man, the senior al Qaida operative directed the detainee to take another bag of the devices to a man who would meet him in Karachi, Pakistan. During raids conducted between September 9th and 11th, 2002 in Karachi, Pakistan, authorities recovered detonating devices from the detainee's house. The devices were recovered from a room in the safe house in which a number of personal effects, including family photos and letters, belonging to the senior al Qaida operative and a bundle of wrapped passports, most of which were valid passports belonging to the wives and children of Usama bin Laden. The detainee stated he harbored three of the September 11, 2001 hijackers briefly at a home in Karachi, Pakistan. The detainee also stated he provided safe houses and logistical support to al Qaida operatives in Karachi, Pakistan from approximately early 2000 through September 2002. The detainee stated that he has either operated or resided at six different safe houses in Karachi, Pakistan with a senior at Qaida operative. The detainee stated he worked closely with a senior al Qaida operative to coordinate support to Arabs who were being harbored in safe houses within Karachi, Pakistan. The detainee stated he was a trusted assistant of the senior al Qaida operative. The detainee stated he was captured in September 2002 during raids conducted against a series of al Qaida safe houses in Karachi, Pakistan.