Sami Essid
Appearance
Sami bin Khamis bin Salih Essid (
Arabic
: سامي بن خميس بن صالح الصيد)
a.k.a. Essid Sami Ben Khemais was the head of United Nations Security Council Committee 1267[2] as an affiliate of al-Qaeda, and by the US Treasury[3] for his terrorist activity. Around 1 July 2007, fresh charges against Sami Essid were read in Italy, where he was still in custody.[4]
According to the UN he was born on 10 February 1968 in Menzel Jemil, Bizerte Governorate, Tunisia.
He phoned a
cell phone held by Saber Mohammed - believed to have been acting as a messenger for Mosa Zi Zemmori and Driss Elatellah.[5]
Guantanamo connection
Following the
Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba
.
The allegations that Guantanamo
counter-terror analysts offered to justify the detention of several of these captives assert that they had an association with Sami Essid, or the Sami Essid Network.[6][7][8][9]
Ridah Bin Saleh Al Yazidi |
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Adel Ben Mabrouk |
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Lufti Bin Ali |
References
- ^ The Second Time Around, Time, 25 February 2002; with a photo of Essid.
- ^ UN list of affiliates of al-Qaeda and the Taliban (see Sami ben Khamis ben Saleh Elsseid)
- ^ U.S. Blocks Assets of 10 More Terrorism Financiers, U.S. Department of the Treasury, 19 April 2002
- ^ Reuters report of arrests of GSPC members, 7 July 2007
- ^ Arab News, Suspect admits being al-Qaeda link in Belgium, September 15, 2004
- ^ a b
Summary of Evidence (.pdf) Archived 2006-07-31 at the Wayback Machine
prepared for Adil Mabrouk Bin Hamida's Combatant Status Review Tribunal- October 8, 2004 - page 176
- ^ a b
Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Adil Mabrouk Bin Hamida's Combatant Status Review Tribunal- pages 48-58
- ^ a b
Summarized transcript (.pdf), from Lufti Bin Ali's Administrative Review Boardhearing - page 64
- ^ a b Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf) of Ridah Bin Saleh Al Yazidi Administrative Review Board, May 4, 2005 - pages 51-53