[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] Close to one hundred Guantanamo captives had their continued extrajudicial detention justified, at least in part, due to allegations that they had stayed in suspicious guest houses.
JTF-GTMO allegations place guest houses named al Ansar in Kabul, Afghanistan; Peshawar, Pakistan; and Kandahar.
[11] Saad Al-Faqih, reported to be an expert on al Qaeda's history, has stated that al Qaeda's origin was tied to a computer system situated in the "bait al-Ansar guesthouse" You said something interesting in an interview with Frontline back in 1999—and you just repeated it here—namely that al-Qaeda originated from a documentation system in the Bait al-Ansar guesthouse back in the 1980s.
At the 2005 bail hearing for Hassan Almrei in Canada, an unidentified Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) agent named only as J.P. stated that Bayt al-Ansar had been "associated with al-Qaeda... since 1984", although even the most liberal estimates suggest that the group didn't even exist until 1988-1990.
He arranged for individuals to go train at the al-Farouq camp.In the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for Zuhail Abdo Anam Said Al Sharabi's Administrative Review Board hearings he faced the allegations:[5][6] According to a Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Abdullah Mohammed Khan's first annual Administrative Review Board, on 29 July 2005.