Al Qaeda suspect Ghassan al Sharbi transferred from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia
featured in a now famous memo by a Phoenix FBI agent - little heeded at the time - who correctly warned months before the 9/11 attacks that Middle Eastern students appeared to be taking flying lessons for the purpose of attacks involving civil aviation.
The U.S. says al Sharbi fled to Pakistan after the Sept. 11 attacks for training in bomb-making. He was arrested there the next year, allegedly tortured in custody, and sent to Guantanamo.were frustrated as court rulings and congressional directives evolved in the face of challenges to the military tribunal’s legal authority to try the Guantanamo detainees.was no longer enough of a threat to the U.S. to be held in military detention.
Saudi Arabia - the country from which most of the 9/11 hijackers came - long has had facilities for detaining and rehabilitating extremists.
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