Abu Subaida

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Abu Subaida

Abu Subaida ( Arabic أبو زبيدة, DMG Abū Zubaida , English spelling: Abu Zubaydah ), actually Zain al-Abidin Muhammad Husain ( Arabic زين العابدين محمد حسين), (Born March 12, 1971 in Saudi Arabia ) is a Palestinian suspected of Islamist terrorism who is being held in the US Guantanamo prison camp .

Abu Subaida is suspected of having been involved in running several training camps for Islamist underground fighters in Afghanistan since the 1990s . In February 2000 he was named as the organizer of plans to attack Western and Israeli tourists that were uncovered in Jordan in late 1999 . He was captured in Pakistan in 2002 and, according to his lawyers , was held and tortured in numerous secret prisons of the US foreign intelligence service CIA in Thailand , Poland, Morocco and Lithuania. With his arrest, the US intelligence services also came into possession of Abu Subaida's diaries, which spanned more than a decade and which investigators used as a valuable insight into the armed Islamist scene to which he belonged. Originally it was assumed that he was allegedly a close confidante of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan . In the meantime, however, the US Department of Justice has withdrawn most of the allegations, including suspicions of al-Qaeda membership. The CIA admitted to having subjected Abu Subaida to 83 cases of waterboarding, which is internationally regarded as torture . His torture by the CIA is detailed in the Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program . Since September 2006 he has been detained in the US prison camp Guantanamo.

In October 2011, Abu Subaida brought a lawsuit against Lithuania at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, alleging that he had been tortured in the CIA prisons there. With similar allegations he also brought an action against Poland in 2013 at the ECHR . The latter lawsuit was upheld in July 2014 and Poland was sentenced to pay 100,000 euros in compensation for non-pecuniary damage for violating Articles 3, 5, 6, 8 and 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

According to a former FBI agent who interrogated him in 2002, Abu Subaida told investigators that he had recommended Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to contact bin Laden with his idea for the plane bombings in the United States in order to obtain financial support from him .

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Commons : Abu Zubaydah  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Allen McDuffee: Leaked: The Secret Diaries of a Guantanamo Prisoner Linked to al-Qaida, in: Wired from July 11, 2013, accessed on June 3, 2014 (English)
  2. ↑ James Risen: Foiled Terror Plot On Tourists Linked To bin Laden Aide, in: New York Times, February 29, 2000, accessed June 3, 2014
  3. ↑ Jason Leopold: From Hopeful Immigrant to FBI Informant - the Inside Story of the Other Abu Zubaidah, in: Truthout of May 29, 2012, footnote 1 (English)
  4. ↑ Jason Leopold: Government Now Says High-Value Detainee Abu Zubaydah Never Member Of Al-Qaeda, in: The Public Record of January 28, 2012, accessed on June 3, 2014 (English)
  5. ↑ Hauke ​​Friederichs: Captured without evidence, in: Zeit Online from January 23, 2009, accessed on June 3, 2014
  6. ↑ a b Peter Finn and Julie Tate: CIA Says It Misjudged Role of High-Value Detainee Abu Zubaida, Transcript Shows, in: Washington Post, June 16, 2009, accessed June 3, 2014
  7. ^ Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program. (PDF) Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, December 9, 2014, p. 525 , accessed on January 15, 2016 (English, the name "Zubaydah" is mentioned 1001 times).
  8. ↑ John Goetz and Martin Munz: Lawsuit against US interrogation methods, in: Panorama of October 27, 2011, accessed on June 3, 2014
  9. ↑ Christian Rath: Poland as a ciao of the CIA in: Taz of December 3, 2013, accessed on July 9, 2015
  10. ↑ Judgment of the ECHR of July 24, 2014: Case No. 7511/13 , accessed on July 9, 2015
  11. ↑ Britta Sandberg : We did it wrong, in: Der Spiegel from September 12, 2009, accessed on June 3, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Abu Subaida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sain al-Abidin Muhammad Hussein (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palestinian terror suspect
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Saudi Arabia