Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi
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Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi (إبراهيم أحمد محمود القوسي) (born 1960) is a Sudanese citizen and alleged paymaster for al-Qaida.[1] He was captured in December, 2001 in Afghanistan. Qosi is held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[2] Qosi's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 54. The Department of Defense reports that Qosi was born on July 3, 1960, in Khartoum, Sudan.
On February 24, 2004, he was named in documents for the first military commissions to be held for detainees.[3] The U.S. alleges that he joined al-Qaida in 1989 and worked as a driver and bodyguard for Osama bin Laden, as well as working as a quartermaster for al-Qaida. He is also alleged to have been the treasurer of a business which was an al-Qaida front.
He was indicted along with Ali Hamza Ahmed Sulayman al Bahlul. The indictment should allow them access to defense lawyers to prepare their defenses. He is charged with conspiracy to commit war crimes, including attacking civilians, murder, destruction of property and terrorism.
Al Qosi has a brother named Abdullah.
Lieutenant Colonel Sharon Shaffer USAF was appointed Qosi's lawyer on February 6, 2004.[4]
On August 27, 2004 Shaffer complained that she was not being provided with information she needed for her defense of Qosi, that Qosi had informed her that the quality of translation at his military commission was insufficient for him to understand what was happening.[5] She told the Tribunal that she had to resign as Qosi's attorney.
According to the Voice of America, Chief Prosecutor Colonel Robert Swann assured the commission that:
- "...all resources will be devoted to obtaining the most accurate translations possible.[5]"
On November 9, 2004 legal action against Qosi was suspended,[6] US District Court Justice James Robertson of the US District Court's had ruled, in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, that the military commissions violated International agreements to which the United States was a signatory. This ruling applied to all four of the detainees who had been charged by the military commission.
On July 15, 2005 a three judge appeal panel over-turned Robertson's ruling, setting the commissions back in motion.
On November 7, 2005 the US Supreme Court announced that they would be reviewing Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.
Newspapers reports say Qosi's case has been stayed, pending the outcome of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.[7]
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- ^ On Trial At Gitmo: Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi, CBS News, August 24, 2004
- ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
- ^ 2 Gitmo Prisoners To Stand Trial, CBS News, February 24, 2004
- ^ Two Guantanamo Detainees Assigned Legal Counsel, US State Department, February 6, 2004
- ^ a b Week of Hearings for Accused Terrorists Wraps Up in Guantanamo, Voice of America, August 27, 2004
- ^ Guantánamo: Military commissions - Amnesty International observer’s notes, No. 3 -- Proceedings suspended following order by US federal judge, Amnesty International, November 9, 2004
- ^ Pentagon moves ahead in trial of Canadian teenager, Reuters, December 1, 2005
