- Majid Khan
- Ghost Prisoner (ISN) 10020
- Nationality Pakistani
- Residence USA
- Married
Majid Khan is a Pakistan-born man and legal resident of the United States who immigrated to the US in 1996. On a trip to Pakistan to visit his wife, Khan was abducted by Pakistani officials and transferred to one of the CIA’s secret prisons. He is represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights and is the only so-called “high value” detainee to have legal representation.
Majid grew up in the US, he was a normal teenager who listened to hip hop music, and to help his family out, he worked at the gas station that they owned. This would be used against him in a later claim by the U.S. Military.
He volunteered to teach computer classes in the local Muslim community.
In 2002, like many Muslims he returned to Pakistan to marry. He then brought his wife home and went to work as a Data Base Administrator in a government office in Maryland.
In March of 2003 Majid returned to Pakistan. While there, Pakistani officials swept in and took the whole family into custody. After one month they released everyone but Majid. His wife and family heard absolutely nothing about him for three years. Then in 2006, President Bush announced that Majid and thirteen “high value prisoners” who’d been in secret CIA prisons had been transferred to Guantanamo Bay to await trial under the new military tribunal system prescribed by the Military Commissions Act (MCA) of 2006.
Majid was the first of fourteen detainees transferred from the CIA black sites to military custody at Guantanamo to challenge the legality of his detention. The Center for Constitutional Rights filed the challenge on October 5, 2006, before President Bush signed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 into law. The MCA of 2006 prevents detainees from challenging US courts. The act is retroactive. The Center for Constitutional Rights plans to appeal the act’s provisions all the way to the US Supreme Court.
According the the US Gov’t, Majid was exposed to a radicalized element of Islam while in America. He allegedly began attending secret prayer meetings at Baltimore’s Islamic Society where he was supposedly influenced by an alleged radical Islamic group. U.S. officials claim that Khan’s first trip to Pakistan put him in touch with family members allegedly involved with Al-Qaeda. According to officials, these family members introduced Khan to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the man accused of orchestrating the 9/11 attacks, who later allegedly enlisted Khan in to help support and plan terrorist attacks against the U.S. Government officials also believe that Khan, under KSM’s tutelage, was being trained to blow up gas stations, poison water and many other terrorist activities.
Khan’s job at the family gas station factored in to the suspicions of U.S. intel that he was part of an alleged plot to blow up parts of the U.S. petroleum infrastructure. The U.S. government also claims that Majid Khan realized he violated the terms of his asylum when he left the United States to visit Pakistan in 2002.
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Majid Khan was interrogated and tortured while he was in the secret “black” CIA Prison. For this reason he has asked a U.S. Court to have his statement as inadmissible, because it was signed under duress as he’d been tortured. He was never given an opportunity to read it before he signed it.
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Interview with Rabia Khan (wife) |
Interview with Fatima Khan (mother) |
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USA: Who are the Guantánamo detainees? Case Sheet 20: Majid Khan |
Wiki’s CSRT Summary Of Evidence |
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Letter from Majid Khan’s Father (statement) |
Khan v. Bush |
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PROJECT TO ENFORCE THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS |
Please contact Sec. Def. Robert Gates also!
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