Hussein Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri () was one of 14 people subjected to

extraordinary rendition Extraordinary rendition is a euphemism, euphemistically-named policy of state-sponsored abduction in a foreign jurisdiction and transfer to a third state. The best-known use of extraordinary rendition is in a United States-led program during th ...

by the

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prior to the 2001 declaration of a War on Terror. Mother Jones
Disappearing Act: Rendition by the Numbers
March 3, 2008 He was captured in

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, and renditioned to

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. He had no known connection to terrorism, other than that he was the younger brother of militant leader

Ayman al-Zawahiri Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri (; 19 June 195131 July 2022) was an Egyptian-born pan-Islamism, pan-Islamist militant and physician who served as the second general emir of al-Qaeda from June 2011 until Killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri, his dea ...

.Grey, Stephen. "Ghost Plane", 2007. pp. 129, 247 He was released in 2000.

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