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Abu Faraj al-Libi ( ; ; أبو الفرج الليبي) (also transliterated al-Libbi ) is an assumed name or nom de guerre of a
Libya Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Suda ...
n alleged to be a senior member of the al-Qaeda
terrorist Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...
organization. His real name is Mustafa Faraj Muhammad Muhammad Masud al-Jadid al-Uzaybi.Press release about Abu Faraj
and 13 other suspects,
Office of the Director of National Intelligence The director of national intelligence (DNI) is a senior, cabinet-level United States government official, required by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to serve as executive head of the United States Intelligence Comm ...
 He was arrested by
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's
Inter-Services Intelligence The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI; ur, , bayn khadamatiy mukhabarati) is the premier intelligence agency of Pakistan. It is responsible for gathering, processing, and analyzing any information from around the world that is deemed relevant ...
(ISI) on May 2, 2005, in
Mardan Mardān (Pashto and ; Urdu ; Pashto: ) is a city in the Mardan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Located in the Valley of Peshawar, Mardan is the second-largest city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (after Peshawar). It is a fast-growing ...
( north of
Peshawar Peshawar (; ps, پېښور ; hnd, ; ; ur, ) is the sixth most populous city in Pakistan, with a population of over 2.3 million. It is situated in the north-west of the country, close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is ...
). Finding al-Libi was a joint effort of the
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's (CIA)
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and Pakistan's Special Forces. Since September 2006, al-Libi has been held in American military custody in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, having previously been held at a secret location.Bush: CIA holds terror suspects in secret prisons
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'', 7 September 2006 According to the US
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, he served as the third in command of al-Qaeda, from the 2003 capture of
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (sometimes also spelled Shaikh; also known by at least 50 pseudonyms; born March 1, 1964 or April 14, 1965) is a Pakistani Islamist militant held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp under terrorism-re ...
to his own capture in 2005.


Background

In approximately 2000, al-Libi was living in the Karte Parwan district of
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. Shephard, Michelle, "Guantanamo's Child", 2008. In August 2004, Pakistani officials stated that al-Libi had become "number three" in al-Qaeda as "director of operations", a role once filled by
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (sometimes also spelled Shaikh; also known by at least 50 pseudonyms; born March 1, 1964 or April 14, 1965) is a Pakistani Islamist militant held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp under terrorism-re ...
.Al Qaeda has new operational chief: analysts
'' CTV'', 20 August 2005Hunt on for bin Laden's latest No. 3 man - US Security
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'', 7 September 2004 Upon al-Libi's arrest on May 2, 2005, U.S. and Pakistani authorities continued to claim him as the third most important figure in al-Qaeda. According to the
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(VOA) reports, he was riding
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on a
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when he and his driver were ambushed by Pakistani agents, some of whom were wearing
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s. A VOA reporter from Mardan said that while being apprehended, al-Libi tried to destroy a notebook, which U.S. agents took and have tried to decode. U.S. agents had been trying to find al-Libi as a link to finding Osama bin Laden. After they intercepted a mobile phone call made by him, they targeted his location to a busy road a quarter of a mile away on the outskirts of Mardan, about northwest of
Islamabad Islamabad (; ur, , ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's ninth-most populous city, with a population of over 1.2 million people, and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital ...
, and tipped-off Pakistani authorities. Plainclothes Pakistani agents arrived in Mardan and waited for him to arrive. Abu Faraj al-Libi was identified by Pakistani authorities as the main planner of the
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./0,,1851859,00.html Duncan Campbell, "Pakistan says al-Qaida link to plot found
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'', 17 August 2006 He is also a suspect in two assassination attempts against
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. According to ''The New York Times'', "Mr. Libbi's suspected accomplice in those attacks was a well-known Pakistani militant named Amjad Farooqi, who was also implicated in the murder of the '
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' reporter
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in February 2002. Mr. Farooqi was killed last September in a shootout with security forces in southern Pakistan."Pakistan Reports Arrest of a Senior Qaeda Leader
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'', 5 May 2005 In the early reporting of this capture, there was confusion between the names and identities of Abu Faraj al-Libi and another wanted al-Qaeda fugitive, Anas al-Liby."Security Sources: The U.S. Confused "Abu Anas" with "Abu Faraj" al Libi"
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, 5 March 2007 ''Al-Libi'' is not a surname, but an adjective, meaning ''the Libyan''. Such adjectives of nationality are used in nicknames, and sometimes to resolve ambiguity; they often have several alternative English
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s. Scholars at the
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, led by
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, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations: * Abu Faraj Libi was listed as one of the captives who was a member of the ''"al Qaeda leadership cadre"''. * Abu Faraj Libi 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."''


Guantanamo Review Task Force

On January 21, 2009, the day he was inaugurated,
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issued three
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s related to the detention of individuals in Guantanamo Bay detention camp. That new review system was composed of officials from six departments, where the OARDEC reviews were conducted entirely by the Department of Defense. When it reported back, a year later, the
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classified some individuals as too dangerous to be transferred from Guantanamo, even though there was insufficient evidence to justify charging them. On April 9, 2013, that document was made public after a
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request. Abu Faraj al-Libi was one of the 71 individuals deemed unable to be charged due to insufficient evidence, but too dangerous to release. Obama said those deemed unable to be charged due to insufficient evidence, but too dangerous to release would start to receive reviews from a
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.


Periodic Review Board

The first review wasn't convened until November 20, 2013. Al-Libi was denied approval for transfer on September 16, 2016.https://www.prs.mil/Portals/60/Documents/ISN10017/20160916_U_ISN10017_FINAL_DETERMINATION_PUBLIC.pdf


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UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
Andy Worthington
"Osama bin Laden’s Death, and the Unjustifiable Defense of Torture and Guantánamo"
Andy Worthington
Who's who in al-Qaeda
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Press handout photo of Abu Faraj al-Libbi
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